Allure of Deceit

We manipulate our memories and they also manipulate our behavior far into the future. Things Don’t Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collin...

  Two elegantly simply plotlines intertwine in Tilt by Emma Pattee: The first is a day in Portland, Oregon, when the Cascadia earthquake st...

Some people deny the horrors of genocide, hoping to protect the reputation of their country or community. Some listen but quickly set the pa...

  A society that treats innocents as wrongdoers unleash more criminal behavior.  Don’t let the title of Laura Lippman’s latest book,  Prom M...

While treating patient complaints about pain, doctors typically inquire about the type, sharp or dull, and the intensity on a scale from one...

  The novel Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford captures a child’s perspective in this brief novel with minimal details, minimal plot, minima...

Hang onto every day as precious – that’s the theme of both The Life Impossible by Matt Haig and Sandwich by Catherine Newman. Both writers...

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

  A Princess Diana impersonator with a sister who could be a twin, a precocious child raised in foster care, a cryptocurrency firm with orga...