Books

Head of Vancouver Writers Fest turns the page after son’s Little Free Library filled with religious texts

Genre-hopping author Naben Ruthnum won’t be pigeonholed

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of June 25, 2022

Short story collection Homesickness showcases Colin Barrett’s uncanny ear for dialogue and Irish vernacular

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of June 18, 2022

Xiran Jay Zhao uses the power of #BookTok to find new audiences

Four new books on modern love (or lack thereof)

Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize shortlisted authors ask each other about their nominated books

A Factotum in the Book Trade mourns for the endangered species of bookstore

Dead in the Water delivers a jaw-dropping story that exposes the shipping industry’s seething, lawless underbelly

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of June 11, 2022

Four book recommendations for summer reading

Summer books preview: 38 reads to escape with this season

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of June 4, 2022

Munk professor Dan Breznitz wins Donner Prize for Innovation in Real Places

Donner Prize finalists on the rise of populism, mistrust in institutions

If crime fiction writing didn’t exist, we’d have to invent it

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 28, 2022

Our favourite crime books, as recommended by Globe writers and editors

How a protest against book bans led to a fireproof copy of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale

Six book suggestions for a summer thrill

Roland Gulliver’s new Motive Crime & Mystery Festival, a celebration of literary thrillers, finally gets its launch

Roger Angell had a way of crafting baseball stories so they illustrated some greater truth about life

Books to get you started on understanding the Cold War era

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 21, 2022

Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s memoir Son of Elsewhere is a vulnerable inwards glance at moving to another country

Toronto Star’s Joanna Chiu wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

Screenwriter Tracy Dawson considered posing as a man to further her career. She wrote a book about it instead

Simu Liu’s memoir details the rocky upbringing that led him to Marvel superhero fame

How Carley Fortune’s hometown inspired Every Summer After

Leah Hennel’s Alone Together: A Pandemic Photo Essay takes readers through the devastation and joy of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 14, 2022

Retired bricklayer among six debut novelists vying for $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

‘It’s like somebody’s whispering in your ear’: Inside the expansive, intimate world of audiobooks

The Globe and Mail Bestsellers for the week of May 7, 2022