Sarah Glidden’s timely meditation on journalism
Glidden, a cartoonist, humanizes people making hard choices under impossible circumstances
book reviews
Zadie Smith’s new tour de force
’Swing Time’ brings together friendship, adulthood, and dance
Into the abyss of black deaths in America
Wesley Lowery gets the facts in order about the Black Lives Matter movement
Denise Donlon’s serpentine path
Donlon’s memoir traces her storied career through Canada’s cultural scene
Why Elvis never left the building
A new book examines the enduring appeal of Graceland, 40 years after Elvis
Author Francine Prose proves herself amply gifted at comedy
A comic novel about a musical that is hilarious, intriguing and discomforting
Anne Carson has a nervy new collection of poetry
Canada’s most richly rewarded poet proves her worth
Julia Child’s life in America
A follow-up from Alex Prud’homme on his aunt Julia Child, the original celebrity chef
A gay man’s night of reckoning in ’The Angel of History’
A muddy and uneven book that pulls together at the end
A beguiling tale about alienation
Hal Niedzviecki takes the approach of a Victorian serial novelist