Book Reviews

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

These two books shed light on Uyghur mistreatments in China

Eric Reguly’s Ghosts of War shows the costs and rewards of investigative and combat journalism

305 Lost Buildings of Canada is a walking tour through destroyed and abandoned buildings

The story of the Second World War wouldn’t be the same without the women of Halifax

Timely and engaging Looking for Jane deals sensitively with harrowing topics

Afghanistan’s ongoing refugee crisis exposed as authors dig deep

Beyond Valentine’s Day: Three new books get real about sex, marriage, breakups and the intimacy of strangers

A new look at George III – the much maligned British monarch during the American Revolution

Understanding Russia through two books

Write What You Know: Three recent novels about writers

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