Books

Plus, a Canadian mutiny, a new portrait of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, flawed do-it yourself projects, life on the LPGA tour, and a food history of the world

Q&A with the former journalist and author of ’The Imperfectionists’

Single women are advised to be more open about who they date

Plus, a gun-down of food-world icons, Beethoven’s ninth, McGill and the Dead Sea scrolls, a literary classic and an even-handed treatment of Rush Limbaugh

From 2010: An academic suggests Canada’s most beloved literary heroine had fetal alcohol syndrome

Plus, the Clintons’ survival, and the marital toll of a lost election

Plus, an anticipatory diagnosis of BP’s eco-disaster, an unsettling story of a murder on the Himalayas, life-changing soccer, North Korean hijinks and DreamWorks

Christopher and Peter both have new memoirs. While Peter wrestles with his absent sibling throughout, Christopher essentially ignores his brother.

He enjoys the sound of ice cracking under a 70,000 lb load

A lawyer and a therapist make it simple: stay single, ladies—until your 30s—and find great friends