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

John Harris sets off on A Journey of Exploration begun by David Finch’s R.M. Patterson, A Life of Great Adventure (Calgary: Rocky Mountain Books, 2000).