Books

Jonathan Franklin’s ’438 Days’ chronicles José Salvador Alvarenga’s trials as he drifted on the Pacific Ocean for more than a year

The new year’s most-anticipated books, and its most unlikely and controversial hits

The controversy and panic over Harper Lee’s first book in 55 years missed something remarkable

A trippy novel about John Lennon that blurs fact with . . . talking seals?

A tour through the murkier side of the City of Light

Fussy eating may be almost entirely learned, and kids would eat everything from Brussels sprouts to broccoli—if we just gave them a chance

The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction

Some difference-making books, from The Canadian Encyclopedia’s 30th-anniversary lists of what make us proud to be Canadian

A new book offers an unintentional guide for Canada to conquer America. If, for some reason, we ever wanted to try to do that.

Charles Dickens may have done it best. But dense, misty and occasionally deadly fog has had a literary—and literal—impact on London.