book reviews

The author is optimistic about humanity’s fate, even welcoming ‘the Singularity,’ when artifical intelligence exceeds the human capacity

For the last hundred years, says the author, the war on drugs has been a monumental, expensive, destructive and tragic failure

Book review: Miranda Richmond Mouillot paints her characters with a complex and wondrous humanity the Holocaust aimed to erase

Book review: Alain Farah’s mind-bending fiction set in a topsy-turvy Montreal expresses little interest in tried-and-true approaches

Book review: Drawing on his vast knowledge of Chinese history, Michael Pillsbury offers a frightful look into the mindset of China’s rulers

The hero of this graphic novel is struggling in New York when he meets a female angel in knee socks and Death, who bears a bargain

O.J. Simpson’s trial was major news, but didn’t have the same impact on how we live and work as the tech developments of 1995

One man’s search for the oldest written example of the number zero on an ancient Cambodian artifact

Carey’s story, already teetering by page 10, pulls us through the biggest constitutional crisis in Australia’s history, writes Martin Patriquin

Blending memoir and the latest research on the brain, including an exploration of what might cause OCD, author David Adams offers few cut-and-dried answers