Miriam Toews: Nudging along a difficult conversation
The award-winning author is pleased Canadians are talking, but she is nudging the conversation along.
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Brian Bethune
Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
A not-so-revolutionary American Revolution
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Meeting Waterloo, and conquering it
Britain’s most popular historical novelist turns his eye to history’s iconic battle