Rosie Perez and Mike Tyson became close friends. Paul Zimmerman/Shutterstock. The “Do the Right Thing” star’s upbringing in Brooklyn was as rough as the boxer’s.

History comes to life in A Killer Whisky (BWL Publishing, $18.99), a mystery by Susan Calder, BA 88, set in Calgary during the 1918 influenza pandemic and the final days of the First World War.. When ...