A Map of Betrayal
Throughout his thirty years as a CIA agent spying for the People’s Republic of China, Gary Weimin Shang,…
The Sound of Things Falling
There is this about the novel The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez: The push and pull between reason and emotion, choice and chance, life and death—a trio of diametrical pairings played against each other in the life of the narrator, Antonio Yammara.
Reading Obama
It has been said that President Barack Obama is like a Rorschach test—people project onto him their interpretations…
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Quiet is a must-read for introverts and extroverts alike. This best-selling book by Susan Cain offers a ground-breaking understanding of the power of introverts in a culture that has a "preference for extroversion."