Rifling through the great junk drawer of history, Hirsch has come up with 101 miscellaneous treasures — some unexpected (George Sands’s right arm), some obvious (the contraceptive pill). Each ...

It is said that history is written by the victors, or as Mark Twain put it: “The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” Historical accounts are certainly dominated by those ...

This has been a stellar year for audiobooks that enrich our understanding of and appreciation for Black history, related in voices and styles that range from comprehensive sagas to authoritative deep ...

The unabridged audiobook version of “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by award-winning author Bill Bryson has the longest wait time of all audiobooks in the Toronto Public Library’s catalogue.