Whenever I am asked a difficult question about Scottish history, I point out I am merely a history writer and not  a professional historian ...

Moncton's annual literary will honour late Acadian novelist and playwright Antonine Maillet with a special ... is from a quote in Maillet's book, Mon Testament, and translates to "The big maybe." ...

Wall Street is puking big-time, and the Sell buttons are working overtime whenever the word “tariff” passes from Donald Trump’s lips. If you listen to the fat cat community long enough, you ...

Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, writes in a new book that he intends to be reincarnated outside China and called on the Tibetan people to reject any successor chosen by Beijing.

The paper “Saint Patrick's birthplace & the names of the Roman forts along the Antonine Wall” states that new Roman period place names assigned to four places along the Antoinine Wall ...

The household was likely to have been that of a wealthy farming family. The abandonment of the Antonine Wall earlier in the century meant there were no Roman forts nearby at the time the dwelling ...

Today, book publishers are printing fewer of them, closing a second-chance window for writers counting on a new cover or marketing campaign to spark sales. The shift reflects changing reader ...

Top five,” Sykes explained. “We always usually cover stuff that no one has ever heard of, so we were like ‘Now let’s try to reimagine something that everyone knows. Make it easy for ...

Antonine Maillet, a Canadian writer who shaped a new literary language for an isolated ... yet perpetually reborn," critic Jacques Cellard of Le Monde wrote after the book was published in France in ...

Two prominent political journalists wrote a book that they say will chart the decline of former President Joe Biden, the cover-up, and why he decided to run for president again. “Original Sin,” ...

New Delhi-based independent journalist Neha Dixit’s debut book The Many Lives of Syeda X is the story of a faceless Indian Muslim working-class woman. Syeda X moved from Varanasi to Delhi with her ...

Selma James on Wilhelm Reich, women, sexuality and wages for housework. From Falling Wall Book Review #3/4 (1975).