When Arnold Brinkman refuses to stand during the singing of God Bless America at a baseball game, he calls it a minor “inconsequential” incident. The media call it unpatriotic, and come down on him like a ton of bricks as a traitor... Read More

Robert A. Poirier’s "Washika" is the story of a group of high school graduates from Quebec who spend a summer in the ’60s working on a log drive on the Cabonga River. The story is divided into four parts and begins slowly, with much... Read More

“In a few pages of my diary, I copied down some of those experiences as others told them to me … Then again, going back to my childhood, I had quite a few experiences which, as yet, have no rational explanation. When I heard strange... Read More

Born in 1908, Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh used his camera and a keenly sensitive eye to chronicle the epic known as the twentieth century. Karsh’s portraits of some of the most celebrated men and women of recent times... Read More

In the conclusion to My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop, Emily St. John Mandel says, “Things happen in independent bookstores that don’t happen in the other places where we buy books.”... Read More

David Mastran admits that the connotation of “privateer” is not always positive—but he is proud of being a privateer as he defines it: “a person who privatizes government programs, replacing government employees with... Read More

Ecological idealism meets corporate greed in "Platinum Quest", Dr. Thomas Bagot’s second novel involving mining operations in South Africa. Ben de Bruin and his family are struggling to manage a potentially profitable platinum mine.... Read More

“Myths are unreal renditions of social situations of the past,” writes Amit Sarkar in his memoir, "Façade of Myths". “They are like potent fantasies that tend to lend credence to absurdity.” Amit Sarkar grew up in a culture and... Read More