The foreword to Blockade was written by Canadian author and poet Joy Kogawa, a friend of both Patricia and Christine Lowther. Kogawa says this about the book: “Chris takes us into the forest, into the ...

The famed 20th-century British foreign correspondent Claud Cockburn was known to use the pithy phrase, “Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.” It had a ring of truth, especially when he ...

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove” by Barbara Demick and “A Flower Traveled in My Blood” by Haley Cohen Gilliland shine light on ...

In calling this a ‘documentary novel’, Jeet Thayil incorporates visual, visceral elements in his narrative while disregarding ...

Director Luke Sparke speaks on his new dinosaur film, Primitive War, and how the film defied expectations of the genre in ...

Terry didn’t know he’d go on to chronicle six decades of equally headline-grabbing events as a Vermont journalist and ...

Each of today’s three greatest military powers – the United States, China and Russia – holds a very large population and ...

From a collection set in a landfill to an author’s cultural exploration of a critically endangered species, these books ...

This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War — a period the country commemorates through poignant museums ...

In May 1968, 1st/Lt. Robin Bartlett, originally ordered to the 101st Airborne, was reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), a helicopter combat assault unit.

The first adult novel by the author of “Holes” is a fantasy fable about a klutzy sorcerer serving the king of a crumbling ...

A conversation with historian James Holland on his latest book with Al Murray, "Victory '45: The End of the War in Eight ...