Book Reviews

Review: The thrilling story of Israel’s secret service and how it all began in Matti Friedman’s new book

Tanaz Bhathena’s latest, and three other young adult novels to read this spring

Review: Author Greg Bellerby makes the ‘masterwork’ case for an overlooked Arthur Erickson house in West Vancouver

Review: David Bezmozgis makes a successful return to short stories with Immigrant City

'Self-reflective revenge fantasies’: Cory Doctorow’s Radicalized brings readers stories for unsettling times

In his memoir Solitary, former Black Panther Albert Woodfox captures the plight of 40 years in solitary confinement

Author Shelley Wood’s new book reminds us long before the Kardashians craze was the Quintland zoo

Retired broadcaster Jerry Howarth chronicles his career and Blue Jays’ history in his memoirs

Review: Ausma Zehanat Khan’s A Deadly Divide tells truths that non-fiction would struggle to communicate

Review: Paranoia and the paranormal collide in Andrew Pyper’s The Homecoming

In the Closet of the Vatican exposes gay life at the highest levels of the Catholic church

Review: Days by Moonlight doesn’t try to answer questions. Like any great book, it complicates them

Review: Into That Fire is promising in its themes and canvas, but ends up seeming stiff and contrived

Review: Don Winslow’s The Border is a harrowing, horrific read that hits Peak Page-Turner

A road story for the Trump era – Valeria Luiselli’s remarkable new novel

Review: Megan Gail Coles’ debut novel Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club strikes a fine balance

Review: Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf is one of the most compelling fantasy stories since Lord of the Rings

Review: Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson’s Empty Planet is an enlightening guide to the contemporary world of fertility

Review: Ann Hui’s Chop Suey Nation is an astonishing cultural and personal history

Review: How Jill Abramson tells the truth in two tales about the state of modern journalism

Review: A Matter of Malice is an engaging mystery novel with memorable characters

Why Canada should take a stronger approach to China, according to Jonathan Manthorpe’s new book Claws of the Panda

Four things to know about ‘surveillance capitalism’ and the digital danger we’re in

Review: The popular self-help book The Courage To Be Disliked is a bit of a Trojan horse

Review: Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian’s debut book may not live up to the hype – and that’s okay

Review: Three new books pay homage to the bureaucrats who make modern government tick

A new gory thriller from Quebec’s Patrick Senécal – sadly written at a Grade 11 level

Don Gillmor tackles the rise in baby boomer suicides – and family tragedy – in To the River: Losing My Brother

The age of adventure

Review: Jonathan Lethem’s The Feral Detective is missing something essential

Review: Louise Penny slays again with her latest Armand Gamache novel Kingdom of the Blind

K.D. Miller: My book’s characters inspired by Alex Colville paintings influenced and shaped me as surely as I did them