Books

Recommendations that are—sometimes unexpectedly—hopeful, to add to your reading list during what will surely be another strange few months

A new biography looks at how Andy Warhol changed art forever

A new book by historian Tim Cook looks at how World War II fits in Canada’s historical imagination, and why it was vulnerable to neglect for so long

Saleema Nawaz’s much-researched book, ’Songs for the End of the World’ is haunting, morally nuanced and oddly hopeful

Author Peter Christie urges pet owners to extend their love to increasingly vulnerable non-domestic creatures

A new book features interviews with chefs who served Idi Amin, Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein on how—and why—they cooked meals for a dictator

Neville Thompson: Churchill and Roosevelt not only respected King as a ’highly-skilled and dependable head of a vital country but enjoyed his company and confided frankly in him. They had no idea that he was recording it all in his diary.’

’I think the coronavirus is putting into sharp focus the vulnerabilities in the way that modern society is organized,’ says Tara Henley, author of ’Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life’

Author Mark O’Connell, whose well-timed new book, ’Notes from an Apocalypse,’ is out this month, on the pandemic: ’Civilization is actually strengthened in a certain way in a situation like this.’

John Geddes: Reading lists for outlasting COVID-19 have leaned on plague stories. But what about the personal, interior aspects of this coronavirus year?