Psychology

Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias B. Freese is a collection of fifteen strongly characterized stories that intrigue because they are so unusual. Most of the stories were previously published. The collection holds together based on a theme of the internal sea of emotion that people hide from the world but that directs choice.

Tall people make more money than short people because they have more self-esteem…unless, of course, they were short in high school. This and other odd ideologies in More Sex is Safer Sex, where economist Steven E. Landsburg dabbles in psychology and tries to convince the world that life should be lived by numbers.

It’s difficult to comprehend what’s going on with author Laura Albert, the writer known as JT Leroy. While she obviously has command of the written word, something alien seems to have command of her psyche. She’s gone through great lengths to commit this so-called fraud, true, but what a nightmare for her now as she tries to explain the unexplainable to the court.

It’s difficult enough to raise children to adulthood, but the grief doesn’t stop when they’re grown. Jane Isay has written a book to help us communicate better with our adult offspring. Here are five top tips from her new work Walking on Eggshells.