A real-life Hollywood murder mystery, breathlessly toldBook review: William J. Mann’s ’Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood’
The tale of the polymath poet with the incredible lifeBook review: Emmanuel Carrère’s ’Limonov: The outrageous adventures of the radical Soviet poet’
Style and substance: Naomi Klein wins the Hilary Weston PrizeThe social activist and author wins Canada’s top award for nonfiction for her book ’This Changes Everything’
Atul Gawande on doctors and writingThe author of the bestselling ’Being Mortal’ expounds on the messy intersection between science and humanity
Charles Spencer and a historic royal manhuntCharles Spencer, keeper of the Althorp estate and his sister Diana’s memory, is investigating a historic manhunt
Miriam Toews: Nudging along a difficult conversationThe award-winning author is pleased Canadians are talking, but she is nudging the conversation along.
A crash course in Chinese etiquetteThe Miss Manners of modern China predicts a clash of cultures in her new memoir
Lucia Jang’s harrowing escape from North KoreaThe book’s subtitle suggests it has a happy ending. In some ways it does, writes our reviewer.
Grace abounds in Marilynne Robinson’s luminous new novelBook Review: Marilynne Robinson’s beautiful novel, Lila, is a story of contradictions