Books

With Elon Musk biography, writer Walter Isaacson tries to capture the ironies of a billionaire

Andrey Kurkov on bringing ordinary stories out of Ukraine’s ‘grey zone’

Toronto writer John Lorinc wins US$25,000 prize for his book Dream States

John Grisham, other top U.S. authors sue OpenAI over copyrights

Winfrey picks Nathan Hill’s novel ‘Wellness’ for book club

Shortlist for $75,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction includes past winner John Vaillant, scholar Christina Sharpe

Peter C. Newman was a legendary journalist and author - but I’ll remember him as a friend, too

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Sept. 16, 2023

Don Gillmor’s Breaking and Entering is a fitting book for the moment in which we are living

Claudia Dey’s latest novel Daughter seeks to disrupt the way literary parental relationships are seen

When my book Sideways was adapted for the stage, I learned the art of transforming non-fiction into fiction

Pulitzer winner Michael Chabon, other authors sue Facebook-parent Meta over AI program

Elon Musk, a Canadian: How Tesla’s man was shaped by the country of his mother’s birth

Emma Donoghue’s Learned by Heart isn’t your average forbidden-love story

Jason Guriel has returned to rhyme with his second novel ‘The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles’

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Sept. 9, 2023

Giller nominee Zalika Reid-Benta reveals the rich character, culture and lore of Toronto’s Little Jamaica

Canadian novelist Mona Awad believes art is a mirror

Vancouver-based writer John Vaillant among contenders for British non-fiction prize

Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist includes Globe journalist Menaka Raman-Wilms, previous nominees

Quebec author Kevin Lambert in contention for prestigious Prix Goncourt award

Sean Michaels’s Do You Remember Being Born? could be forebear of a whole new genre of writing

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Sept. 2, 2023

Six thrillers for the end of the summer

Learned by Heart: Read an excerpt from Emma Donoghue’s new novel

Bestselling author Kathy Reichs on writing while working full time, forensic science and how her series might end

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Aug. 26, 2023

The 62 best new books to read this fall

Samantha Irby once again walks the line between poignancy and humour in Quietly Hostile

The friends behind Christina Lauren romance novels on The Unhoneymooners and their ride to the bestseller list

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Aug. 19, 2023

Canadian author Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience, short-listed for Booker Prize, is an unnervingly modern tale

Author-illustrator Loren Long, who worked with Barack Obama, Madonna, gets six-figure book deal

R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface skewers the publishing world and becomes a bestseller along the way

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of Aug. 12, 2023

Canadian writers can’t afford to write non-fiction anymore – and that’s a problem for all of us