book reviews

The Killing Game examines the foreign-fighter phenomenon

At The Existentialist Café showcases Bakewell’s knack for writing smart, gossipy reads on heady subjects

Mona Awad’s debut fiction takes an increasingly painful look at a girl from Mississauga

McNeil recalls her days as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey

In The Lives of Elves, Muriel Barbery proves she is doggedly brave by straying so far from her original best-seller

New York Times critic A.O. Scott makes the case for the most maligned of literary figures

A new novel from Canada’s parliamentary poet laureate attempts to mesh the oral and the written, with mixed results

The lessons we can learn from Cervantes and his fiction are still relevant, this new biography shows

Fiona Barton’s latest novel takes a compelling look inside a horrible crime

’Indentured’ is a meticulous yet blistering book about the NCAA and its draconian laws and tactics. But can it move the needle?