Book Reviews

The Song of the Cell asks us to ponder the huge implications of microscopic biology

Love The White Lotus? Try these books

Buyer beware: Book warns Group of Seven forgeries might resurface

Biography mostly captures the magic of punk rocker Art Bergmann

New book asks tough but necessary questions about Irish unity

Four recently published books help take our anthropocentric arrogance down a notch

Clark Blaise is the greatest Canadian writer no one has heard about

New books capture the myths, realities and conundrum of Russia and a possible new Russian resistance

Chelene Knight’s latest novel Junie is an intimate look at how Black women try to thrive in a unique community

Menaka Raman-Wilms’s debut novel is a slow burn, with a dark, gripping reveal

Whit Fraser revisits a pivotal moment in Nunavut’s past in Cold Edge of Heaven

Steve Paikin’s John Turner biography reveals a conflicted man who influenced Canadian politics mostly for the better

Jowita Bydlowska provocatively embraces Camus, blends Gothic horror elements in Possessed

George McCullagh created the Globe and Mail, but he wielded more power than just the press

Gabor Maté explores the toll of trauma on our physical health in The Myth of Normal

Querelle of Roberval a homage to the works of Jean Genet

Mark Hume finds the perfect spot to cast a line and meditate on his life in ‘Reading the Water’

Three book picks that take you back to the ′70s

Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy is a study of the power and limits of Big Tech

Heroines don’t play by the rules in these book recommendations

Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition is a significant addition to the Franklin canon

Guy Gavriel Kay’s All the Seas of the World is at once familiar and powerful

The Last Resort explores the dark side of paradise

Gerald Hannon’s intimate memoir is a cogent insider account of radical gay activism in Toronto

These three books portray the realities of poverty and the working class across decades

Until it Shimmers is a sparkling coming-out story drenched in longing

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

Four book recommendations for summer reading

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