Books

We fetishize what’s scarce. Last year’s obsession was home cooking; now we’re all enthralled with hard physical work.

It’s the greatest comics collection of all time: even the former PM wanted to contribute

The ‘Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary’ is finally being published

Looking great isn’t only about the weight.

An impressive novel, blending the history of Christopher Columbus with a modern-day mystery

’The narrative moves in and out of dimensions of human existence with an illuminating clarity of vision’

Amazon’s Kindle deletions sparked a host of questions over e-book rights and privacy

A conversation with Kate Fillion

’The most dog-eared, rumpled, scotch and water stained book in my library’

Before she became a Toronto urban icon, Jane Jacobs defeated New York’s master builder