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