If you want to give your Christmas party this year a literary flavour, you can refer to Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers, written by Mark Bailey and illustrated by Edward Hemingway ... Read More »

The big roundup of alleged Mafia members in Montreal this week may be good timing for the authors of The Sixth Family, The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto. ... Read More »

This week, the University of Saskatchewan unveiled a poem written by Métis leader Louis Riel in the weeks before his execution for High Treason in 1885. Riel addressed the poem to Robert Gordon, a jailer ... Read More »

For your Remembrance Day reading, Simon Crump reviews Frederic Manning's The Middle Parts of Fortune (published in an expurgated version in 1930) in The Guardian as "easily the best book I've ever read about the ... Read More »

If current wars are preoccupying you this Remembrance Day, Jared Ferrie's article in The Tyee recommends two books on Afghanistan to help understand that very complicated mess.Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid has written extensively on religious ... Read More »