Allure of Deceit

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

  A dreamy, unreal quality pervades Grace Li's  Portrait of a Thief – the story of five college students who meet with a Chinese executi...

    Friendships can move from lightness to darkness with age, experiences and the blunt truth, as suggested by a novel of two girls growing ...

  Economics, “ the study  of how people allocate scarce resources for production, distribution, and consumption, both individually and colle...

Devil House by John Darnielle is psychological suspense bordering on confusion. The novel begins with strong, precise writing and characters...

  In Anywhere You Run , t wo sisters struggle to survive racism along with the trauma of losing their parents and an older sister. In a diar...

In Lessons , Roland Baines regards an abusive relationship from when he was 11 years old as the source of his many desires and failures. A ...