A first-rate (mis)adventure writer
Plus, a novel about Shakespeare’s illegitimate daughter, a case for the oil sands, a shocking confession, war biographies, and a head-spinning tour of central Europe
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Where have all the novels gone?
2009 was a bumper crop for fall fiction. This year, the big names are in short supply.
Why traditional workplace strategies for managing employees don’t work
Clifford Nass on the benefits of praise, why criticism is overblown and how to calm an angry driver
Ken Follett on Fall of Giants and the rest of his Century Trilogy
’The 20th century is the most dramatic and violent period in the history of the human race’
Was Louis Riel insane?
Though the Metis leader didn’t agree, madness seemed the best defence against charges of high treason
Distraught woman finds mysterious library
Plus, Charlotte Gray on the gold rush, memoirs about learning to speak Mandarin, and a cancer journey, a light approach to the Middle East and a search for giant waves
Rethinking motherhood: the third act
Marni Jackson: Maybe grown kids staying closer to home isn’t so bad
Look at what you can make with a rice cooker
Movie reviewer Roger Ebert shares his enthusiasm for his favourite kitchen appliance
’Right now I want to hold you so badly’
The love letters a famous columnist wrote to woo his wife were his most important assignment
An elephant worthy of Cervantes
Plus, revelations from Pickton’s survivors, tales of Palin from the campaign trail, a beguiling twentysomething memoir and histories of malaria and the common cold