Books

This month in book reviews: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and climate change. A Nobel laureate. A champion of metamorphosis.

The wounds of civil war are deeper and worse than the wounds in conventional, interstate wars

McGill professor Marc Raboy’s biography of Guglielmo Marconi examines the inventor’s ties to fascism

Roxane Gay cracks our fiction list as Michael Lewis and Peter Wohlleben continue to dominate as non-fiction top sellers

The author of ’4 3 2 1’ explores the instability of reality, and how everything can change in a blink

Cecelia Jane Reynolds corresponded with her former owner. Was it real friendship, or a desire to free her family?

Read an excerpt from Diane Schoemperlen’s RBC Taylor Prize-nominated book, ’This Is Not My Life’

While covering murderer Kendall Francois for The New York Times, Claudia Rowe became fixated on the psychopath

Our books writer Brian Bethune puts together a list of recommended reads for making sense of Donald Trump’s presidency

New reads by Ross King and Danielle Martin crack our non-fiction bestsellers, while Madeleine Thien loosens her grip atop our fiction list