Book Reviews

Mayukh Sen celebrates seven immigrant women’s contributions to U.S. food culture in Taste Makers

Leadership advice gets reframed for the pandemic era in these three books by women

The Two Michaels is readable and gripping, but also spotty and incomplete

Speak Not is a welcome addition to critiques of empire and studies of language policy and politics

Authors offer insights born of personal perspectives in new books examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Tim Falconer’s Klondikers recalls an early 20th century miracle on ice, and how hockey became a national rite

Martha Nussbaum’s Citadels of Pride explores sexual abuse cases in music, sport and law

Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life builds a case for Canada’s most prolific, but least-understood, filmmaker

Quentin Tarantino, literary star? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The Novel delivers meaty piece of meta-pulp

New Holocaust books by Canadians offer new perspectives

Ed O’Loughlin’s This Eden is set against a backdrop of hacktivism, cryptocurrency and surveillance

Glenn Greenwald’s Securing Democracy, on covering corruption in Brazil, is a timely reminder of the fragility of democracy

In Deborah Levy’s Real Estate, the final instalment in her ‘living autobiography,’ late midlife is not an ending but a beginning

Seth Rogen’s sorta-memoir Yearbook is a true comedy high that needs no pharmaceutical supply

Rachel Cusk channels a literary idol in her new novel Second Place

Catherine Fogarty recounts the Kingston Penitentiary riot in her book Murder on the Inside

Ina Park’s Strange Bedfellows cuts through the stigma of STDs with levity and research

Understanding China: Four books that look at the country’s past, present and possible future

Christy Ann Conlin’s The Speed of Mercy paints a stunning portrait of secrets, trauma and female worth

André Picard’s new book Neglected No More examines the disorganization of eldercare in Canada

The storied life and art of playwright Tom Stoppard takes centre stage in expansive new biography

In finding solace in small-town life, the characters in Mary Lawson’s new novel examine the ties that bind

The Third Man explores the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt through the lens of Mackenzie King

In his book The New Climate War, Michael Mann is a climate jedi

Jael Richardson sets a new standard for social criticism through dystopian storytelling in her debut novel, Gutter Child

John Ghazvinian rigorously chronicles the relationship between Iran and the U.S. in his new book

Two new books on Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson remind us there’s more to movies than Rotten Tomatoes scores

Margaret MacMillan’s War: How Conflict Shaped Us is a brisk but comprehensive look at military conflict

Arundhati Roy’s latest non-fiction collection Azadi brings to light the contemporary Indian scene

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new novel is a carefully curated mix of prose and poetry

Jane Igharo’s debut Ties That Tether pits love against family

Silver Donald Cameron’s last book Blood in the Water is a brilliant finale to an illustrious career

Donald Savoie’s Thanks for the Business is a rambling, complimentary story of how the Irvings built New Brunswick

Andrew Pyper’s The Residence pays homage to gothic tradition and contemporary fears

Dakshana Bascaramurty’s debut on death and dying shows the power of story in difficult times

Chih-Ying Lay’s Home Sickness stories can be hard to look at, but it is also hard to look away