Book Reviews

With 20 plus years of hindsight, Bill Clinton reflects on his life after the presidency

A Way to Be Happy doesn’t have many happy endings

Two new Canadian books find optimism in artistic life, against the odds

Paris ’44 captures a remarkable time in the city’s history

A Gentleman and a Thief is a rollicking real-life heist story

The Weimar Years is a monumental recreation of life in Germany

Creation Lake is Rachel Kushner’s best book to date

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