For the love of trees, words and forests: Book review
Geography professor Charles Watkins traces mankind’s endless fascination with trees in his fact-crammed history
Books
RBC Taylor Prize nominees: Plum Johnson’s They Left Us Everything
Plum Johnson’s family memoir changed as she cleared out the family house
A return to Second World War England: Book review
Humphreys’ new novel tells a story that moves from a POW camp in Germany to the London area
When grief takes flight: Book review
In her award-winning memoir, Helen Macdonald shares memories of training a mercurial goshawk after the death of her father
The age-old hunt for Atlantis: Book review
Actually, Atlantis has been found several times, but you can’t say that if you’re writing a book about looking for it.
Let this flower bloom: Mo Yan’s complicated vision of China
As a Nobel laureate from Beijing who isn’t a dissident, author Mo Yan is in a lonely club. His new book helps clarify things.
A field guide to Italians
Book review: John Hooper is perfectly situated to explain the intricacies of Italy’s delicate national identity
Mohsin Hamid, a writer without borders
Book review: Mohsin Hamid’s book of essays works to reconcile the liberation of globalization with feelings of rootlessness
The literal wolves of Wall Street
Book review: Stephen Marche’s book perfectly expresses the rapacious ferocity of capitalism—without hokey tropes
RBC Taylor Prize nominees: M.G. Vassanji, bound by East Africa’s call
Drawing on his sense of ‘mad belonging,’ M.G. Vassanji crafted an insider’s account of his place of birth