book reviews

The Paris Commune burned the city in 1871, after the massacre of 17,000 people by government troops for wearing workers’ clothes

Although an undeniably dated film, Purple Rain retains the best thing it depicts: Prince’s status as one of the planet’s finest live acts

In what he has said will be his last novel, Faber has constructed a story that brims with suspense

Thornton provides erudite context and trenchant asides while letting artists do the talking, writes reviewer Anne Kingston

John Lefebvre, Canadian pot-loving multimillionaire, recounts his life’s journey

Author Robert Beachy explores Berlin’s gay culture and sexually liberal history

Brian Bethune on the fiction and non-fiction that stood out in the year that was

Larissa Liepins reviews The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus

Sophia Loren is among the most respected film icons of the last century; as Roberto Benigni says, ‘She is Italy’

Three decades of a veterinarian’s adventures on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland make for a humorous memoir