book reviews

John Boyko’s latest history book is a revealing look at John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson’s relationship with JFK

Sergei Lebedev’s debut novel deploys surrealism and poetry as he ventures into the Gulag, seeking answers

A new book by Maria Konnikova is a lucid exploration on how con men get away with their plots

A fictionalized retelling of the 1999 protest where 40,000 people marched against globalization in Seattle

Anjan Sundaram, who came to train journalists, finds a Rwanda ruled by a Paul Kagame’s repressive state

A new book argues that genius isn’t genetic—it’s nurtured by a multitude of factors

A new biography filters Groucho Marx’s life through the Marx Brothers’ second-generation immigrant status

What’s next, not just for society, but for suddenly vulnerable professionals? A new book examines the future of jobs

Three verbs that define the history of the world: want, take, have

Ripped apart by civil war, the island nation ’has forgotten any other way to live’