Books

The audio book giant is launching its first Canadian-focussed site. Don Katz on why everyone from book lovers to actors should be happy.

When the eldery Jay took his son’s seminar on the epic, a profound personal and intellectual journey was launched

An excerpt from Payam Akhavan’s 2017 Massey Lecture explores the reality and psychology of ISIS fighters.

From 2017: A call to action from the UN’s youngest-ever war crimes prosecutor

Vanity Fair journalist David Friend argues we’re repeating the worst of the 1990s—public shaming, prurient voyeurism and exhibitionism

The former Montrealer and New Yorker writer recalls a time of "nascent corruption...when Donald Trump first emerged like a weed"

The U.S. president, says Rushdie, is "crazy like a fox," which has made his attacks on the concept of objective truth so effective

Novelist Helen Humphreys talks about how the death of loved ones sent her across the continent in pursuit of vanished apple varieties

The author of ‘American War’ writes a short story imagining the end of the Donald Trump presidency

Spy-novel master John le Carré revisits a cold case; Jesmyn Ward tells a haunting Southern gothic ghost story; and Stephen Greenblatt searches for the real story of Adam and Eve