Allure of Deceit

  Hauntingly beautiful and demonstrating the power of memory, The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo makes it easy to suspend disbelief about creatur...

The Trackers by Charles Frazier has a dual personality – the story’s beginning is slow as a young, ambivalent protagonist arrives in Dawes, ...

  Two women document flora of the Colosseum in Rome, one in 1854 and the other in 2018 in  The Weeds  by  Katy Simpson Smith . The first toi...

A place called Town proclaims itself as the world’s safest and wealthiest nation in Saha, a novel by Cho Nam-joo, translated by Jamie Chang...

Lying is inevitable in the context of war, poverty, inequality.  The lying continues even when the context changes, wars end and years pass ...

The Glass Kingdom, creepy and suspenseful from the start transforms to simple  horror by the end, masterfully detailing the resentments tha...

Scarlett Chen, impregnated by her employer, is sent to a secret home in California, with the goal of obtaining US citizenship for the infant...

  Story the series of events in a book, film or play Myth    story from ancient times, especially one that was told to explain natural event...