Are Baby Boomers the suicide generation?
Pondering his brother’s death, an author asks if Boomers are pre-programmed to end their own lives in his new book, ’To The River: Losing My Brother’
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These are the books you need to read in 2019
More Trump, memoirs and Ian McEwan: Many titles evoke the U.S. leader, but there’s respite, and even the devil, in fiction
The best books to read this winter
From the sex lives of First World War soldiers to the stunning new novel from Esi Edugyan, this list offers a seasonal banquet
Here’s the prize for facing parents — and siblings — head on
Kathy Page won the Rogers Writers’ Trust fiction prize, while the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust nonfiction prize was awarded to Elizabeth Hay
How Jodi Picoult hopes fiction can infiltrate the minds of Trump voters
The proudly pro-choice bestselling novelist insists her divided nation can come together—and even Texas evangelicals can be willing to listen to alternate views on abortion
The bountiful afterlife of Leonard Cohen
Cohen lives on with a new book, and a new album is even in the offing
Miriam Toews takes on the dark side of Mennonite communities
Toews’s fictional account of Mennonite women’s response to a four-year rampage of sexual assault in a remote colony in Bolivia may be her finest work yet
The 15 books you should read this summer
From new Michael Ondaatje fiction to Michael Pollan’s psychedelic adventures, the summer offers a bibliophile’s feast
The decline of the Chinook salmon threatens a whole way of life
Adam Weymouth tracked the journey of the Chinook salmon by canoe—all 3,000 km of it—and returned with a new respect for the North.
Why kindness and empathy are more important than ever
Springing from a personal accusation of unkindness, Dr. Brian Goldman’s new book explores how humans can learn to empathize better