Books

Book review: Willie Nelson’s memoir looks back on the long, winding life of a troubadour nonpareil

Book review: Hardly your typical beachside read, Jessica Knoll’s debut is a sharp summertime novel about society’s facades

Book review: A Booker Prize winner’s new book offers a heady narrative of love and family

Book review: Mairtin O’Cadhain’s 1949 Irish classic, freshly translated, is an ode to life, death, and Samuel Beckett

From 2015: Philip Slayton on bad mayors, good mayors—and why every big-city mayor has no real power and is doomed to fail

Anecdotes and revelations about the late Sacks’ personal life converge into a deeply personal meditation on love

Anne of Green Gables offers some words of wisdom to Princess Charlotte on hair, grudges and daydreaming

Brian Bethune presents some essentially unroyal takes on dragons, princes and the working life for a modern Princess Charlotte

Book review: Lynn Crosbie’s fictional homage to Kurt Cobain paints an opiate-inspired, vivid world

Book review: Mark Essig’s book is jam-packed with facts and trivia, but it doesn’t quite deliver the whole hog