<div>Essays, fiction, and poetry reflecting on truth and illusion in a world filled with deceptions both treacherous and benign. Children deceive, as do grownups, and many are the moments when all of us even deceive ourselves. People of every age and stripe, whether rarely or often, dissimulate, bluff, and beguile. The writer who fabricates and populates worlds is a deceiver, as is the artist whose triumph is to trick the eye, to alter perception. The honest magician&#39;s livelihood is based on deception; so is the dishonest thief&#39;s. And consider the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva who wrote, &quot;A deception that elevates us is dearer than a legion of low truths,&quot; thus complicating the subject entirely. This special issue of Conjunctions gathers a wide spectrum of essays, fiction, and poetry on the classic subject of deception, exploring in original and thought-provoking ways a world in which truth is a most fragile, elaborate, and mercurial thing. Contributors include Edie Meidav, Terese Svoboda, Yannick Murphy, Paul Hoover, Bim Ramke, Eleni Sikelianos, Magdalena Zyzak, and many others.</div>

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Sleights of Hand

<div>&ldquo;I can imagine both Jane Austen and Raymond Carver pouring over this masterly novel&rdquo; of a girl&rsquo;s coming-of-age in 1970s New York (Frank McCourt). From the National Endowment for the Arts Award&ndash;winning author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Sea of Trees, comes the &ldquo;shockingly funny&rdquo; (Vanity Fair), &ldquo;wholly unsentimental but peculiarly hopeful portrait of family love and growing up scarred but sturdy&rdquo; (LA Weekly). Splitting time between her off-kilter family in a garbage-strewn apartment and a lonely hot dog vendor who trades Hershey bars for questionable favors, the pragmatic and absolutely fearless thirteen-year-old Smitty stands firmly grounded in a city that is stifling, violent, unpredictable, and full of life. It&rsquo;s not easy to stay balanced. Not with two precocious sisters, a pothead brother, a depressed but steel-willed mother, an infirm grandmother, and an idler dad who&rsquo;s vanished with his appallingly stupid mistress. Now, with dark humor, deadpan resilience, and a quiet sense of the surreal, Smitty recounts a remarkable chain of events that will make this the most transcendent year of her young life. In Here They Come, the PEN New England Award&ndash;winning Yannick Murphy &ldquo;flawlessly captures a child&rsquo;s-eye view of a battered society and a battered family&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times), &ldquo;creating a world as magical and harrowing as the struggle to come to grips with maturity&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review).</div>

Here They Come

<div>&#8220;Yannick Murphy, while being one of our most daring and original writers, is first and foremost an exquisitely attuned observer of human behavior. . . . Murphy&#8217;s work provides pretty much unexceeded reading pleasure.&#8221; &#8212;Dave EggersThe warm, wry, and patient voice of a veterinarian father tells the heartfelt story of his young New England family enduring a moving trial of loyalty, hope, and faith after they are confronted with an unthinkable crisis. Acclaimed author Yannick Murphy&#8217;s intimate narrative style and lovely prose will enthrall readers of Rivka Galchen, Padgett Powell, and Murphy&#8217;s own Signed, Mata Hari. The Call is a &#8220;triumph of quiet humor and understated beauty&#8221; (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from an author that the New York Times Book Review calls &#8220;an extraordinarily gifted fabulist.&#8221;</div>

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