Reading Time: 3 minutes In Lands of Lost Borders, Kate Harris ruminates on 10 months aboard a bicycle along the Silk Road once conquered by Marco Polo
Category: Books
Let’s stop gratuitously thrashing historical reputations
Reading Time: 3 minutes Emily Murphy should be celebrated for her accomplishments and how they changed Canadian society for the better, not reviled for her shortcomings
Harry Truman completely unprepared for his accidental presidency
Reading Time: 4 minutes The inauspicious heir to the White House had planned to play poker the night Roosevelt died. Instead, he became president
A New Year’s reading list for the 99.09 per cent
Reading Time: 3 minutes Four authors who lay bare a depressing world of plutocrats, oligarchs and the international kakistocracy
When an intellectual cozies up to dictators
Reading Time: 3 minutes Democracy is anathema for those convinced of the correctness of their views, the righteousness of their morality and the superiority of their intelligence
Luck plays a big part in creating a winning athlete
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fire the coach. Yell at the players to motivate them. Or accept that luck plays a significant role in the outcome, no matter how valiant your efforts
Poland’s 20th century tragedy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stuck between Germany and the Soviet Union didn’t stop thousands of Poles from contributing to the war effort in the 1940s
How alcohol is killing Aboriginal Canadians
Reading Time: 6 minutes In his important book Firewater, Harold Johnson talks about the enormous problem of alcohol abuse that plagues so many Indigenous communities
Social recipe brews up a life that imitates a new work of fiction
Reading Time: 3 minutes Warren Kinsella’s new novel Recipe for Hate chronicles fanatics insinuating their way into positions of power. It all seems too real now
America’s first ethnic working-class hero
Reading Time: 3 minutes An Irish-American Catholic, champion boxer John L. Sullivan rose to popularity from modest roots