Book Reviews

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

Amber Dawn’s My Art is Killing Me captures the tension in how creative work can both save and harm

Eternity Martis’s memoir They Said This Would be Fun is a survival guide for token university students

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is an amusing and moving dual memoir

From Henry Kissinger’s political poker to Donald Trump’s deep state claims, two new books examine America’s recent past

Margaret Atwood reviews The Equivalents, about the artists who seeded second-wave feminism

In her new memoir Still, Emma Hansen doesn’t shy away from the grief and trauma of losing a child

Lawrence Wright’s pandemic thriller The End of October is terrifyingly prescient, high-anxiety reading

Blake Gopnik’s Warhol locates the man behind the art and artifice

Benjamin Perrin’s book Overdose takes a hard look at the ongoing opioid crisis

Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel shines in its probing of themes – guilt, loss and theft

Witheringly incisive and consistently pitch-perfect, Maria Reva’s Good Citizens Need Not Fear is nothing short of a comic triumph

The Third Rainbow Girl commits to history while respectfully detailing the 1980 double murder

Anne Enright thwarts expectations in the brilliant Actress, a novel of extraordinary empathy

Andrew David MacDonald’s When We Were Vikings burrows deep into your imagination

Shani Mootoo’s Polar Vortex is an unsettling novel about how secrets always come back to get us

The Mirror and the Light is the superb conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell

Sarah Leipciger’s Coming Up for Air intertwines three narratives to leave its reader with a paradox to ponder