Book review: Erik Larson's 'Dead Wake' presents a spectacular narrative of the Lusitania, sunk 100 years ago In the early stages of the first world war, the efficacy of submarines as powerful tools of war was lost on many, but not all. Shor ...
29 May 2015 - Joe Martin
Canadian musician Bruce Cockburn on singing in praise of nonviolence “I honour nonviolence as a way of being, and as a political tactic, but I am not a pacifist. As we continue to watch the world’s greatest military powers plunder weaker states and people ...
1 May 2015 - Joe Martin
Early in her life, author Lacy M. Johnson was made aware of her good looks. When she was only 7 years old, her mother entered her lovely blonde daughter into a beauty pageant: “In the pictures, I don’t look like a child of 7. I walk in that sashaying page ...
19 Nov 2014 - Joe Martin
The death of Karamchand Gandhi in 1885 would have momentous consequences. At the time, his son Mohandas was in his teens and already married. In the wake of his father’s death his mother Putlibai became the family’s matriarch. She must have been remarkabl ...
23 Sep 2014 - Joe Martin