book reviews

Must-read fiction and non-fiction picks to sink your teeth into

Joe Hagan recounts Jann Wenner’s salacious life, Mike Spencer Brown offers a chronicle of ‘crazy’ travel and Ta-Nehisi Coates examines Black American tragedy

Jennifer Egan delves into historical narrative; Kevin Hardcastle tells a foreboding tale of attempted redemption; and John DeMont takes on the history of his home province

Spy-novel master John le Carré revisits a cold case; Jesmyn Ward tells a haunting Southern gothic ghost story; and Stephen Greenblatt searches for the real story of Adam and Eve

Books to read this month: in fiction and non-fiction, ripping tales of fraud, deceit, murder and (environmental) mayhem on the high seas

Plus the memoir of a bold female restaurateur, and a new set of interlacing stories from Elizabeth Strout

Books to read this month: a new history of Russia’s obsession with war, a modern-day Thoreau pens a social media anti-manifesto, and more

Despite chronic pain, the author delivers another Gowdyesque novel, replete with absurdist humour

This month’s must-reads: Fiction from North Korea, a second U.S. Civil War, a space spider, art-world frenzy and more

This month in book reviews: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and climate change. A Nobel laureate. A champion of metamorphosis.

Real things and why they matter

Sociologist Rogers Brubaker examines transgender and transracial differences