The systemic ills of medicine on black America
Book review: In ’Black Man In A White Coat,’ a black doctor takes a hard look at his industry’s relationship to his race
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A layperson’s guide to architecture, arranged in clear, clean lines
Book review: Full of cocktail-party tidbits, Witold Rybczynski’s lucid essay collection showcases the best and worst in architecture’s history
Franzen’s ’Purity’: On the new Stasi and the stasis of doomed love
Jonathan Franzen’s hotly anticipated fifth novel tome, ’Purity,’ is a massive tome calculated to thrill his acolytes and incite his critics
The sad darkness behind a best-selling author
Book review: Camilla Gibb’s wrenching memoir shows the gap between media persona and real life
Kicking the habit of how we see addiction
Book review: A neuroscientist who was addicted to opiates takes aim at the idea that addiction is a disease
Inside the magical world of dolphins
Book review: Susan Casey visits ’Dolphinville’ to learn more about these creatures that have long fascinated man
An intimate family portrait and a reflection of our nation
Book review: Giller winner Elizabeth Hay’s latest finds a family anxious about the future at a time of national anxiety
Cheetos? You can thank the U.S. military for those.
Book review: An insider look at how America’s military-industrial complex spawned some of our favourite foods
Fictionalizing the accounts of women in the Second World War
Book review: ’The Race for Paris’ reimagines the swashbuckling journalist Martha Gellhorn’s adventures in the Second World War
Why libraries matter
Despite the benefits of the digital revolution, the history of the library reveals a mutable survivor that’s vital for democracy