Book Reviews

Author Linda Melvern’s Intent to Deceive details the planned genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi – and subsequent efforts to deny it

There’s a storm coming: Jenny Offill’s new novel touches a nerve

The characters shine in Thomas King’s latest detective novel, Obsidian: A DreadfulWater Mystery

Michael Coren aims to reclaim the power to define faith’s meaning in the public eye

Math, what is it good for? Absolutely everything, it turns out

Dominoes at the Crossroads shows how Black history is entwined in Canada’s story

Anita Kushwaha’s novel Secret Lives of Mothers and Daughters reveals too much, too early

The French Revolution and what it has meant for democracy and Western civilization

Author Amanda Leduc calls for making space for the disabled, even in our fairy stories

Lisa Robertson’s new novel The Baudelaire Fractal breaks the conventions of how a story works

William Gibson’s Agency interrogates our relationship to technology with startling clarity

Adnan Khan writes There Has to Be a Knife with equal parts violence and tenderness

Two books shine light on abuse in the queer community

Dorothy Ellen Palmer’s new extraordinary memoir, Falling for Myself, is a tale of an ordinary girl

Art and Rivalry links the personal trials and professional successes of artists Mary and Christopher Pratt

Prestige, power and pride: Kremlin Winter explores a complex identity crisis

A history of modern Canadian architecture, from the ambitious 1960s and 1970s to the current era of ruthless efficiency

Candace Savage’s Strangers in the House examines Prairie identity through the struggles of a francophone family

Kevin Donovan’s book The Billionaire Murders: The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman is a true-crime mystery without a tidy ending

Maude Barlow’s Whose Water Is It Anyway? Taking Water Protection Into Public Hands teaches us there is hope amid the global environmental crisis

Sally Armstrong’s Power Shift is ambitious in scope but hampered by hazy generalizations and inaccuracies

In The River Battles, Mark Zuehlke vividly chronicles the culmination of Canada’s Second World War campaign in Italy

Marina Endicott’s The Difference will break your heart (over and over)

Labatt history book Brewed in the North serves up enticing details

Ken McGoogan is an amiable companion detailing the brutality Highland Scots faced in Flight of the Highlanders

Ronan Farrow’s Weinstein-burning Catch and Kill celebrates all that is right with journalism, even as it exposes all that is so terribly broken

Zadie Smith experiments in uneven collection of short stories

Amid #MeToo, Chanel Miller’s Know My Name emerges as one of the movement’s most urgent reads

Anar Ali’s Night of Power explores the struggles of an Ismaili family fleeing to Alberta in the 1970s

Linden MacIntyre’s The Wake is a long overdue obituary for the miners of the Burin Peninsula

Marc Hamer’s How to Catch a Mole will teach you a lot about moles

Would you give up meat for the sake of the planet? Jonathan Safran Foer asks that question in his new book, We Are the Weather