With Wall Street suffering financial conniptions, prominent investment firms imploding like neutron stars, and American president George W. Bush organizing a $700-billion bail-out, it feels like the 1980s all over again. What better time to ... Read More »

Colleagues (and buddies) Stephen Clare and Trevor Adams of Halifax Magazine are looking to find the top 100 Atlantic Canadian books ever written. They plan to compile their findings in a book called Spindrift, but ... Read More »

Those pesky Olympics begin tomorrow, and Slate has reviewed a plethora of books about China in the spirit of the games (though many of them are about Mao), including Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and ... Read More »