Brian Bethune

An eclectic selection of just-published new fiction and non-fiction to get us through the nights of winter ahead

Abandoned office towers, empty subways, deserted cafés—post-pandemic, many cities will never be the same

A new book explores the significant Indigenous influence on HBC’s expansion and how, for all its many evils, the company kept vast swaths of Canada from becoming part of the U.S.

Renowned historian Margaret MacMillan explores war’s significance and legacy—and what she’s worried about right now

The planet is burning, the pandemic runs rampant, millions of refugees are adrift from their homes and Black and Indigenous lives are under constant threat. Now is no time to throw in the towel.

Harvard professor Michael Sandel argues the Western world has ’outsourced our moral judgment to markets’ and wrongly assumed that ’the money people make is the measure of their contribution to the common good’

Just like future dystopias, horror stories are almost always tales of their times. Andrew Pyper’s forthcoming novel ’The Residence,’ explores the presence of a demon within the White House walls.

Jeff Blackstock unravels the story of his mother’s death in the 1950s and lays it in the hands of his father, who at the time was a Canadian diplomat

American-Polish writer Anne Applebaum probes the decline of a just society in the U.S., Britain and Poland in a new book, titled ’Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism’

Here are new works of fiction and non-fiction, recently published or upcoming, to engage and delight readers in the warmer months