Stan Persky reviews A Beautiful Mind: the book and the movie.

Stan Persky reviews Paul Strathern’s book on Dmitri Mendeleyev, who created the Periodic Table

Ray Deonandan appraises Eric Margolis’ War At The Top Of The World: The Struggle For Afghanistan, Kashmir

From Thailand, Persky offers a view of J.M. Coetzee’s 1996 Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Daniel Gawthrop reviews Christopher Hitchen’s recent indictment of Henry Kissinger

Stan Persky on the mean streets of Havana

Uncle John’s Cabin: John Harris wrestles with Cecil Giscome’s memoir of discovery Into and Out of Dislocation

Stan Persky offers a tribute to the late Mordecai Richler by way of a review of Barney’s Version

Stan Persky reviews Larry McMurtry’s Walter Benjamin At The Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond

Rita Moir’s Buffalo Jump: A Woman’s Travels, is an impulse buy for John Harris