Friendship The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn. Stacey D'Erasmo 17
Revenge As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power,... Stacey D'Erasmo 21
Age The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates... Stacey D'Erasmo 17
Computers There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second -... Stacey D'Erasmo 15
