The Canadian Children’s Book Centre's Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2008, featuring special guest speaker, Barbara Reid, illustrator of this year’s TD Canadian Children’s Book Week poster. Details: Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:30 p.m. Room...
By Robert BarnettThe Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lamaby Pico IyerEvery so often, between the time a book leaves its publisher and the time it reaches its readers, events occur that change the ways it can
By Ingrid D. RowlandBathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eyeby Linda NochlinWACK! Art and the Feminist Revolutionan exhibition at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, February 17â€"May 12, 2008In 1971, Linda Nochlin, an assistant professor of art history at
By Malise RuthvenLeaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Centuryby Marc SagemanJihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11by Matthias Küntzel, translated from the German by Colin MeadeThe Fall and Rise of the Islamic Stateby Noah FeldmanHow We
By Thomas PowersThe Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflictby Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. BilmesThe Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan Warby Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. GrauGhost Wars:
By Francine ProseTwenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogyby Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by Susanna MooreHangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Courtby Patrick HamiltonThe Slaves of Solitudeby Patrick Hamilton, with an introduction by David LodgeBob, a
By Geoffrey WheatcroftBlood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warningby John LukacsTroublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save Englandby Lynne OlsonHuman Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilizationby Nicholson BakerChurchill,
By Frank RichWhen, in the summer of 1968, Norman Mailer covered the Republican and Democratic conventions on assignment for Harper's magazine, he was forty-five, an aging rebel looking for a new cause. He had started to drift restlessly from his
A new report from the set of "The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" movie has appeared online in which the author describes meeting Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton, as well as visiting the Great Hall, the Burrow and Diagon
Flash fiction, or the "smoke-long story," or the "skinny story," as it is sometimes called in China, is short, true. But as anyone who has tried to write a thank you card knows, brevity ain't easy. Nor is it truly
Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right direction. She doesn't say much about what he did in the 48 hours of rehearsal that he devoted to her, but she does include
Tufts and Tenen saw themselves as guardians of the cave. They were extremely concerned that their discovery could be looted and destroyed, as had happened to other caves in southern Arizona. They were determined to preserve its pristine quality. They
The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of history. The hate was uncontrollable. The Indians sought revenge and a return to their way of life before colonization, and the New Englanders felt
As widely noted, Doris Lessing is complaining about winning the Nobel prize -- specifically she's complaining that all she does is give interviews -- in an interview.
Yet another International Writers Festival, this time in Jerusalem, where they're holding one through the 15th. An impressive list of authors, at any rate: aside from almost all the big-name Israeli authors the guests include: Javier Cercas, Nadine Gordimer, Lidia
