What should you name a baby samurai? What food should a samurai bring to a battle? What is a samurai's most treasured possession? A newly translated 450-year-old book supposedly written by a renowned ...

Emily Dickinson famously wrote, "There is no Frigate like a Book/ To take us Lands away ..." This is a good descriptor for the new novel by Williamstown author John J. Healey, "The Samurai of Seville.

African Samurai cuts through our preconceived notions of the past. Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard’s biography of Yasuke, an African slave-turned-mercenary who became Japan’s first foreign-born ...