Books

A.N. Wilson’s bio of Queen Victoria uncovers a personal life ignored by earlier historians

Sophia Loren is among the most respected film icons of the last century; as Roberto Benigni says, ‘She is Italy’

Three decades of a veterinarian’s adventures on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland make for a humorous memoir

Authors Guldi and Armitage have some advice for the Historians of the world: it’s time to go big.

Safran’s murder stories contain some grain of truth, however elusive it may be

Humankind can learn—in theory—from catastrophes like hurricane Sandy

What conjoined twins Chang and Eng reveal about race, slavery and 19th-century America

Wolves, salmon and bears can teach us about self-sacrifice and ecology

As tightly knit and powerfully evocative as anything human religious sensibility has created, writes reviewer Brian Bethune.

Plus a biography of the Bhagavad Gita, what the endangered Great Bear Rainforest has to teach us, investigating men, and the original Siamese twins