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It's time for the CBC Books Spring Reading List! Check out the buzzy Canadian books to add to your "to-read list" this season ...
For decades, Oxford academics at Worcester College drank wine and served chocolates from a silver-rimmed chalice made from ...
Graeme Sly, author of Unforgiven, on his systematic approach to researching Historical Fiction. Creative writing is a unique ...
Seasoned French political scientist Julien Zarifian has published a thoroughly researched and thought-provoking book that ...
The Vietnam War inspired enduring literature, from both sides of the world. Even before the war, U.S designs on Southeast ...
From emotionally charged, visceral blockbusters to stark anti-war films, entertainment reporter Mitchell Hageman breaks down ...
In Antonio Muñoz Molina’s “Your Steps on the Stairs” the narrator—he is unnamed until the book’s final pages—is in Lisbon, preparing his new apartment for the arrival of his wife ...
Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...
Critics, possibly sparked by the gender experiments in “Garden of Eden,” became interested in Hemingway’s “androgyny” and ...
This is a great month for Irish crime fiction, with more strong releases ... Readers of the previous Kerrigan book will recall that it concluded with a surprising twist, which takes centre stage ...
Albert C. Barnes was born into poverty in 1872, in Philadelphia, and went on to make a fortune as the inventor of a topical antiseptic and to amass a staggering collection of modern art.