Poet Jordan Abel pieces together his past in his latest book ’Nishga’
Abel mines his family’s painful story, exploring the impacts of residential schools and intergenerational trauma, in a new literary work of poetry, art and archival documents
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Books to spark or allay our fears in the time of the coronavirus pandemic
Stories of how plagues affect us have existed since the Bible. Here are 10 notable works of pestilence lit.
A vibrant biography of explorer Radisson wins final RBC Taylor prize
Mark Bourrie’s chronicling of Pierre-Esprit Radisson includes cannibalism, a Caribbean shipwreck and the creation of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Families betrayed by their own genes
Two books explore the DNA mutations that made two families highly susceptible to diseases like cancer and schizophrenia
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s agonizing drug addiction
Diaries show the disastrous extent of the ’Anne of Green Gables’ author’s addiction to prescription drugs, as well as parallels to our modern-day opioid crisis
Solving the climate crisis isn’t on consumers. It’s on the people in power.
Mark Jaccard’s latest book on the climate emergency argues consumers should stop feeling guilty about their habits. But as citizens, they need to elect better leaders.
The myth of memory decline and how to rejuvenate your brain
We really are wiser after 70, insists leading neurologist Daniel Levitin
LGBTQ people and ’the harm being done by the Christian religion’
Michael Coren talks to the theologian and author Charles Fensham about the hatred toward LGBTQ people in conservative Christianity and how to stop it
These are the books to watch in 2020
In 2020, books lose interest in Trump to instead focus on the changes that have reshaped our world (and ourselves)
Why leading crime writer Ann Cleeves’ work is all about her settings
The author of the Shetland and Vera novels calls herself a human geographer. The settings for her stories aren’t, she says, only a ’pretty backdrop to the action.’