- Book Review…Man’s Eternal Search for Meaning Jan 26, 2020 Book Review…, News 0 Book: Pebbles and Pearls – Existence, Life-Living-Dying- Death & Purpose Author: Owen Everard James Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD ‘Pebbles and Pearls’ is a captivating and exhaustive journey into Western Philosophy. The …
- Australia’s First Nations poets map possible path of atonement By the time Ellen van Neerven turns 30 next year, they will have published three books – the award-winning fictive triptych Heat and Light and two collections of poetry, Comfort Food and Throat, forthcoming. This already spectacular body of work reinvents …
- Book review: Newest Freeman work matches its hype Minnesota author Brian Freeman says his newest book, “Thief River Falls,” due out Feb. 1, is “one of my personal favorites.” Which, of course, is precisely what you’d expect an author or musician or other artist to proclaim while out promoting their latest …
- Book review of Fire and Fury: Transforming India’s Strategic Identity by Anil Kakodkar, Suresh Gangotra Nuclear energy, as a source of power, has remained elusive. Generations of scientists and administrators have looked upon it as a clean source. Unfortunately, proliferation of nuclear weapons and global rivalry to acquire them as strategic deterrents led …
- Book review: The New World Disorder and the Indian Imperative by Shashi Tharoor and Samir Saran Most, if not all, geopolitical analysis today looks at three separate factors for the world’s problems: the rise of China, the retrenchment of the Western world order led by the United States, and the growing power of populism and strongmen (and women) …
- Book review of Modiplomacy: Through a Shakespearean Prism by T.P. Sreenivasan Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarkable activism in external affairs has provided endless opportunities to critics and advocates to evaluate it. He barely completed his first year in office when the first books on his foreign policy began to appear. But …
- Sterling Library hosting special podcast live presentation Jan. 28 The Friends of the Library annual meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, at Sterling Municipal Library. Open to the public, annual meetings have historically featured a guest speaker from the area such as an author or community member. This year …
- Book review: Bill Richardson’s West End Stories deliver a rare blend of whimsy and compassion Bill Richardson, author of I Saw Three Ships. PNG I Saw Three Ships West End Stories By Bill Richardson (Talonbooks, 2019) $16.95 | 247pp The many fans who loved local writer Bill Richardson’s elfin charm on CBC and who celebrated his recognition by the …
- Book review: The Lost Pianos of Siberia Russia, it is said, stops at the north-south divide of the Ural Mountains, and the great reach of Siberia begins. It is a land of taiga forest, huge lakes, Arctic tundra, and has immense natural resources – but for many years it was a place of exile and …
- Book review: Highfire by Eoin Colfer All sorts of cruel and nasty things were said about Game of Thrones as the television series shuddered to an underwhelming conclusion. But nobody until now has castigated it for depicting large fire-breathing reptiles in an unflattering light. Such is the …
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