Book Reviews

Hillary Clinton’s new memoir Something Lost, Something Gained comes against a familiar political backdrop

With The Knowing, Tanya Talaga tells a tale that all Canadians should know

Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo deftly captures the thrill and desperation of young romance

In new book, author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin makes the case for the healing power of music

Historian Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc. charts a web of global despotism – but glosses over the West’s role

What if John Lennon didn’t die? Novel reimagines a life where the Beatles live on

Rachel Cusk’s ‘anti-novel’ Parade rejects definable plots and likable characters

Seven cookbooks to help you cook up something new this summer

Time collapses completely in Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s new novel, Your Absence Is Darkness

Two new must-read books deliver a stern verdict on Trudeau’s political leadership

Crosses in the Sky is a dramatic telling of pre-Confederation history

New Pierre Poilievre biography invites readers into the Conservative universe, but doesn’t poke far beyond the surface

Carley Fortune takes on the proverbial forbidden fruit in sizzling new romance novel

Michael Ondaatje’s A Year of Last Things glances back in time

Colm Toibin’s Long Island is a brilliant, compelling, utterly human story that begs to be read and reflected upon

Biography on Manitoba’s first Indigenous premier John Norquay offers a history lesson

Fareed Zakaria’s Age of Revolutions reminds readers that upheaval is one of earth’s greatest constants

Our Enemies Will Vanish captures Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a blow-by-blow account

Bury the Lead is a whodunit that nails the details

Burn Man weaves the macabre with the magical in searing story collection

Kara Swisher looks to ignite her unique place in journalism with Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Rogers v. Rogers chronicles a critical moment in the history of Canadian telecom

Sheila Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries is more than what meets the eye

Everything There Is spins theoretical physics into a page-turner of a story

Filterworld is a sobering look at how algorithms shape what we buy, eat, listen to and watch

What happens if you were raised under psychological surveillance

Moral Courage takes readers into the tense and tenuous world of risk-taking journalism

With his memoir My Effin’ Life, rocker Geddy Lee tells a Jewish tale

The Harris Legacy: how Mike Harris created today’s Ontario

The Duel is a great guide to understanding both Canada’s past and present

Agents of Chaos depicts a world that is similar to ours, yet quite different

Alicia Elliott’s debut novel brings unique edge to contemporary Indigenous literature

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

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

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

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