A near-future space opera melds its historic American western origins with Greek tragedy.

Seeing the world through two foreign literature anthologies that captivate, educate and enlighten.

This melange of three Brazils in different timelines may lead the pack for the top science fiction awards for this year's books.

This well-written history of the first manned space missions reminds us what daring and giant steps they were.

This well-written memoir provides an excellent firsthand account of mental illness and its effects and consequences.

This farcical broadside at religion and modern politics and government is sure to offend most believers.

This wonderful CBC Television mock documentary series on youth hockey shows the humor and irony in sports parents.

Louis Theroux revisits American subjects of his BBC documentary series on the American fringe.

A physicist applies the scientific method to the question of the existence of God.

Mailer's attempt to explore evil through a fictional recounting of Hitler's youth is better straight historical fiction than philosophical exercise.