Allure of Deceit

  Machines built by humans reflect human values. In the Lives of Puppets, by T.J. Klune, some machines love and nurture, and others are cor...

Childhood. Religion. Nature. Love. Each have a magical, spiritual quality, the memories of which can haunt for a lifetime.  The Magical King...

  Daisy is an actress, talented yet not successful, in The Eden Test by Adam Sternbergh, and her husband, Craig, aspires to write a novel. ...

 The United States is hardly the worst nation when it come to debt per GDP.  The United States has the world's highest GDP, yet "Ma...

With aging comes loss, and for Tom Kettle the protagonist of Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry, life is essentially over. Retired as a...

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 ...