The best crime stories are those in which everyone is flawed, both the good guys and the bad guys, the dead and the living. The good guys populating "Entanglement" are weak, guilty, and rude—human. Which makes them all the more... Read More

Hong Kong—bright lights, deep harbors, yearning, regret, hope, and all the complexities that come from being one of the densest places on earth. For-ty-two writers tackle the subject of Hong Kong in the new anthology edited by Xu Xi,... Read More

Autism is still a mysterious condition, but Olga Bogdashina finds evidence to suggest that we have much to learn about the world and our relationship to it from people who are almost continually exposed to a wide range of intense... Read More

These days, we tend to take cell phones for granted. Most people are used to being able to contact their friends and families with a simple press of a button, no matter the distance that has to be covered. In the late nineteenth and... Read More

Murder, corporate mayhem, golf, musical oldies, and archery blend together in Target, a gutsy mystery that unfolds on the banks of Clear Lake in northern Michigan. Pete Thorsen isn’t getting much of a vacation, even though he took a... Read More

The Civil War was a defining moment in the history of the United States, and the effects of the conflict echo in contemporary society. Bookstores still devote plenty of precious shelf space to volumes about those four years, and... Read More

It used to be that families who didn’t fit the usual format—working husband, stay-at-home wife, children who all looked alike—were considered to be a kind of accident that didn’t quite reach accepted standards. Times change,... Read More

Arvid Jansen is standing on the precipice of loss. He is losing his mother, who has recently been diagnosed with cancer. His marriage is also dying, as is Communism, which has formed the basis of Arvid’s beliefs since he was a young... Read More