Are some people too smart for their own good? Or are they just good at rationalizing? Author Don DeLillo introduces a community of philosophical buffoons in his hilarious satire, White Noise.

Jack Gladney is chairman of the Department of Hitler Studies at his college. His colleagues are pseudointellectuals with crackpot theories. His friend Murray says that people can be divided into two categories: killers and “diers”. Killers, he explains, stow up credit like bank interest because their...

Unless you’re well-versed in the investment business, The Lies We Trade may read like a foreign language. Kristine Delano brings twenty years of Wall Street experience to bear with her debut novel.

Meredith Hansel, an investment portfolio manager for Garman Straub, is on the cusp of a career triumph when an apparent betrayal by one of her team members casts doubts upon Meredith’s integrity. Whiffs of a scandal emerge so quickly that she doesn’t know whether she’s about to be promoted or...

I struggle with books like Buckeye. Their authors write so well, their characters are so engaging, and their subject matter is so interesting. The one thing their stories lack is decency.

Take Cal Jenkins, son of a bitter World War I veteran. After Pearl Harbor Cal is eager to serve in World War II but is rejected because of a birth defect. Or Becky Hanover, who has a gift for communicating with dead souls. Then there’s Margaret, who grows up wondering why her mother abandoned her to an...