2016 review of a book writtenby an author whose family name starts with the letterA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZThe years following the Great War of 1914-18 were a diff… Read More
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Pretty much everything about the 1960s was about change: music (The Beatles), movies (James Bond), fashions (take your pick), hairstyles, television sitcoms, and dramas, an… Read More
On the five Fridays of July 2016, I presented three contemporary works, two of them genre fiction from Japan and a holocaust novel from Italy, along with two classics from 1920s France and W… Read More
The first thing I noticed was the pronouns. Montreal, which marks its 375th anniversary this year and hosts the Canadian Grand Prix today (June 11), is the second-largest Francophone ci… Read More