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Published:Sunday | November 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie has written a biography of Russia's great empress Catherine that is - well, great. Massie, who won the Pulitzer for Peter the Great, knows the history of the country, and he brings that knowledge to his writing.

Published:Sunday | November 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Rosetta Jacobs was a bright and thoughtful child but struggled to express herself. Only after she was a teenager and theatre marquees began carrying her new name - Piper Laurie - did the quiet girl from Detroit begin to find the strength to speak up.

Published:Sunday | November 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

With its continued focus on empowering Jamaican youth through education, the Digicel Foundation has provided a $1.6-million boost to a critical RISE LIFE youth and community programme in downtown Kingston.

Published:Sunday | November 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Jamaican members of Toastmasters International - mainly women, if the anniversary turnout was any indication - celebrated the oratory and public speaking organisation's 87th anniversary at The Pantry, New Kingston, recently with the expected fluency in speech.

Published:Sunday | November 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

James Earl Jones is about to receive an honorary Oscar for his nearly five decades in film, but the 80-year-old thespian says he shouldn't even be an actor.

Published:Sunday | November 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

For many students pursuing tertiary-level education, financial obligations can be daunting, to say the least. This was the plight of Shaneka Annakay Harris, recipient of the RBC Royal Bank Emerging Artist scholarship award.

Published:Sunday | November 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A wave of book lovers, tastemakers and literary luminaries are expected to show up next Wednesday evening at Ruder Finn in midtown Manhattan's East Side for the New York book launch of Jean Lowrie-Chin's Souldance, a collection of poems and writings.

Published:Sunday | November 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Grammarian Robert Hartwell Fiske doesn't seem to have much tolerance for people who spell poorly and misuse idioms. But he saves his greatest contempt for the nation's dictionary editors.

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Shine on me with rays that sting

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Girl, your love is like the leaves that cling to the branches of a tree

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The following is another in our series of articles prepared by the Jamaica China Friendship Association.

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

All they do is haunt me

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Title: 11/22/63 Publishers: Scribner

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Title: 8 Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

More than 40 years after his shocking expulsion from the institution where many of his ideals were shaped and 31 years after his death, Walter Rodney packed the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre at the University of the West Indies...

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Title: Steve Jobs Publishers: Simon & Schuster Author: Walter Isaacson

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Title: The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America

Published:Sunday | November 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Her face is magic, magnetic, mesmerising. The camera loves her. I'd read before about certain people whose interaction with film transform them into stellar attractions.

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Did 'us' exist?

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The unusual tickling and prickling

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The guns were ready, tension in the air

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Arthur Wint's place in history was assured when the six-foot, five-inch quarter-miler became the first Jamaican to win an Olympic gold medal at the 1948 Games in Manchester, England.

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

It craves that addiction

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

I like to cook, but why don't you

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Jacqueline Irene Ranston's name may not be on the tip of everyone's tongue worldwide, but it certainly should be in Jamaica.

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