Allure of Deceit

Fear of Beauty has been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award from Mystery Writers of America and a Lovey for Best Suspense Novel by...

The future of Afghanistan is in jeopardy, because of poor governance and basic hunger.  UN data suggest that 55 percent of the country...

My maternal grandmother was meticulous at ironing. Once I showed up at her home in a favorite pleated skirt, worn despite having fallen cr...

As an editor, working to display others' voices in print, I try to avoid the traps of rigid rules. I ask questions and propose alterna...

Questions from viewers and readers influence writers and artists - with attempts to please these audiences or resist. Sculptors from Zim...

Malala Yousafzai, along with many other fine candidates, may not have won the Nobel Prize for Peace. But that does not make her quest or t...

Censorship and religious extremism go hand in hand.  Fearful of free thought and the opinions voiced by other, the extremists are desperat...