A chronicler of the quotidian issues her twentieth novelBook review: In her trademark sparkling prose about the everyday, Anne Tyler cracks open the American family
A preacher of cartoons delivers his sermonsInside the legendary cartoonist’s curated ’post-war Canadian drab’ home
Dr. Seuss comes back’What Pet Should I Get?’ will hit bookstores this summer, 24 years after the author’s death
Book review: A biting history of pedigree dogs Breeders once favoured long noses like those of the great dane; bulldogs are now cherished for their exaggerated wrinkles
Book review: The rebirth of the great American song Ben Yagoda, a gifted raconteur with a keen ability to deconstruct pop-cultural watersheds, is among the minority that insists the songbook never died
Charles: King-in-waiting and a force for change Our in-house royal watcher reviews an untraditional biography of the Prince of Wales
The rise and fall of Alexander McQueen and John GallianoAuthor Dana Thomas has freed McQueen and Galliano from their cartoon confinements and crafted a sensitive dual-biography
RBC Taylor Prize Nominees: Barbara Taylor’s The Last AsylumHistorian Barbara Taylor weaves her story into the larger one of psychiatric hospitals
Upgraded humans and the quest for a better worldThe author is optimistic about humanity’s fate, even welcoming ‘the Singularity,’ when artifical intelligence exceeds the human capacity