This is a true story, which happened two decades ago. Shoot him with your gun: The Scare Behind the Badge.
THE first time I almost shot someone, I wasn’t that scared.
It was 1986, and my partner and I had responded to a report of a man waving a knife inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal. When [...]
Shakespeare’s Wife - Germaine Greer: Reclaiming the Shrew At Night
Few endeavors would appear as arduous and maddening to a responsible scholar as a biography of Shakespeare’s wife, Ann Hathaway. We have almost no solid facts about Mrs. Shakespeare’s life, and we know almost nothing about the Shakespeares’ marriage. We know that the playwright could have [...]
Bestselling Books: Weekly Bestsellers in North America dated April 5 2008
The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to [...]
Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Bestseller - Wonder Bread and Curry: Mingled Cultures, Conflicted Hearts
Jhumpa Lahiri’s characters tend to be immigrants from India and their American-reared children, exiles who straddle two countries, two cultures, and belong to neither: too used to freedom to accept the rituals and conventions of home, and yet too steeped in tradition to [...]
Bestselling Books: Passion throws me in a loss
It had been an innocent boyhood hobby, but when, in his forties, Simon Garfield rediscovered stamp-collecting, it spiralled into an obsession that went beyond the usual midlife search for meaning. It was costing him thousands and signalled the end of a marriage already collapsing under the strain of [...]