Best Selling Books by John Ralston Saul

The Four Continents is comprised of a series of paintings made between 2012 and 2016. In this series, Monkman takes as his point of departure Giovanni Battista Tiepolo''s epic frescoes commissioned for a private residence in Würzburg, Germany. The centrepiece of the Tiepolo series represented a day in the life of the Greek god, Apollo, with the four continents allegorized in peripheral scenes. In Monkman''s reinterpretation, each continent is personified by a Two-Spirit sovereign with Miss Chief playing the roles of Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Tiepolo''s allegory is updated to include architectural wonders and notable figures from history amidst chaotic crowds.

Sent to Hanoi to secure a promise of permits for offshore oil exploration, Martin Laing finds himself trying to unload five billion dollars worth of blacklisted U.S. arms and ammunition abandoned after the Vietnam War

In this black comedy, Saul''s narrator takes readers from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti in the 1980s and 1990s. But as he becomes further enmeshed in these worlds, his outsider status grows more ambiguous: Is he a documentarian of privileged foibles, or an embodiment of the very "dark diversions" he chronicles?

On 20 March 2004, John Ralston Saul delivered the inaugural Joseph Howe lecture at King''s College School of Journalism in Halifax, Nova Scotia. One of Canada''s foremost thinkers on issues of media, politics and society, Saul spoke to the legacy of Joseph Howe, his famous defense in 1835, and of his contributions to a distinctly Canadian position on freedom of speech and freedom of the press. His speech recalls a time when political debate was prioritized in society and covered by the media, and when the democratic foundations of this country were first articulated and then pursued via social reforms. "We''re curious. And we''re actually not in a rush," says Saul of our current situation. Why then, with the collective level of education and individual life expectancy steadily on the rise, have we not allocated more time to engaging in public debate of ideas and to covering these debates in the media? Why, when the creation of Canada as a country is still remembered as the result of all-night discussions and passionate engagement, have we not chosen to continue discussion simply as a means of maintaining an active, conscious citizenry? Saul applauds the examples of responsible, courageous investigative journalism in evidence today, and urges a wider move away from the results-focused, low-content buzz that comprises so much of mainstream media both in print and on television, and which stands in direct contradiction with participatory democracy and with freedom of the press. Cutting through murky constructs like intellectual-property rights and access to information, he identifies the journalistic challenge of locating shapes in the mass of information and beneath the misleading hype around secrets. In a style that is highly articulate, humorous and emphatic, John Ralston Saul provides a succinct, relevant look at Canadian history, our current whereabouts, and an ambitious rally for participatory democracy and intelligent media for the future.

L''enfant poussa un cri au moment où la pointe de la lame pénétra dans sa poitrine, un cri bref et unique. Le métal s''enfonça profondément dans son corps. Sans qu''elle pût le contrôler, Amélie poussa un cri d''horreur.

L''auteur se propose de rv̌olutionner la faȯn dont les Canadiens se perȯivent eux-mm̊es et dont ils perȯivent leur pays; il met ̉jour les mythes fondateurs du Canada et cherche ̉les rčoncilier avec la rǎlit ̌contemporaine. [SDM].

Bangkok. Le Canadien John Field y vit depuis vingt ans sans pouvoir se détacher de cette ville corrompue, fascinante. Personnage interlope, il ne respecte qu''un seul être : sa fille Songlin, née de ses premières amours en Thaïlande. Il est journaliste à ses heures, homme d''affaires à ses heures, buveur invétéré, consommateur de jeunes Thaïs et d''aventures en tout genre. Mais ici, tout s''achète et se vend : les femmes, le pouvoir, la drogue, les enfants, les armes. Même la mort. Question de prix. Field n''a pas compris que Bangkok peut lui être fatale. Il ne se laisse entraîner, désespéré mais généreux, amical mais un peu fou, dans un cercle infernal de trafics, d''abus et de pièges sans issue.

Une histoire de sorcellerie contemporaine qui démarre bien mais s''enlise ensuite dans des longueurs.