Mummy, what does cisgender mean?A new children’s book introduces kids to the world of transgender politics
Trial by fire: An exclusive excerpt from Thomas Mulcair’s memoirTom Mulcair was a lonely federalist working for the Quebec civil service in 1980, when a referendum threatened to tear the country apart
Go Set A Watchman: A silent, steady launch for a major bookHarper Lee’s much-anticipated ’To Kill A Mockingbird’ follow-up is selling like hot cakes. But where’s all the launch-day excitement?
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ sledgehammer words on being black in AmericaBook review: Rising intellectual force Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a letter to his son in a searing polemic about the realities of black life in America
Hyeonseo Lee: Escape, exile and why she misses North KoreaA high-profile North Korean defector’s surprising revelations about life in the Hermit Kingdom
A sideshow of an Appalachian novelBook review: ’A Hanging at Cinder Bottom’ is Mark Twain meets ’Ocean’s Eleven’
A true-ish story of a Russian oligarch’s rise and fallBook review: Ben Mezrich’s story of Boris Berezovsky, one of Russia’s richest oligarchs, tries to fill in the gaps on a legacy steeped in mystery