The search for Anne Frank’s betrayer
Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan’s new book describes the six-year investigation into how the Nazis learned about the Amsterdam annex where the Frank family hid during WWII
Brian Bethune
Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
Was Jan. 6 the beginning of the end for America?
A new book imagines what the next American civil war will look like, beginning with the 2021 Capitol riots
How the most connected man in Toronto came back from death
Bob Ramsay’s memoir explains how he survived a brush with death–for love
New titles from Emily St. John Mandel, Rawi Hage and other 2022 must-reads
A riveting review of the hundred years since King Tut’s tomb was discovered; a new, luminous offering from Canadian novelist Emily St. John Mandel; plus four other nightstand-worthy titles landing in 2022
Six books to read this winter
Engaging new reads for the holiday season
The crime novel second acts of Chris Hadfield and Beverley McLachlin
This fall is a season for new or newly announced crime novels penned by people famous in other fields
Bingeing into the 21st century with artist Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland on his new book, ’Binge’ — a collection of darkly funny micro-stories Coupland describes as ’an X-ray of a culture at a certain time’
Three new books to read in October
New long reads to spend your evenings with
Bruce Kidd on how sport and society are tightly interwoven—in the world and in his life
Q&A: The Canadian athlete discusses his memoir, ’A Runner’s Journey’, and how athletics and social activism are inseparable for him
A look back at the never-ending nature of epidemics
The more we learn about pathogens, the clearer it becomes that we’ll never escape them