books

The U.S. president, says Rushdie, is "crazy like a fox," which has made his attacks on the concept of objective truth so effective

Novelist Helen Humphreys talks about how the death of loved ones sent her across the continent in pursuit of vanished apple varieties

Spy-novel master John le Carré revisits a cold case; Jesmyn Ward tells a haunting Southern gothic ghost story; and Stephen Greenblatt searches for the real story of Adam and Eve

Brave publishers, great books and Canada’s newfound affluence combined to set the scene for the CanLit explosion of the late ’60s

Domestic thrillers rule the bestseller lists, and Shari Lapena’s newest is among the year’s most anticipated

Books to read this month: in fiction and non-fiction, ripping tales of fraud, deceit, murder and (environmental) mayhem on the high seas

A new book by Elaine Dewar illuminates the curious sale of iconic Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart — and what it means for Can Lit

What’s behind literary inflation? Authors get more verbose as they garner success, but prestige TV has also changed readers’ habits

The acclaimed author and neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky explains the deep biological roots of human behaviour, from racism to religion to romance

Books to read this month: a new history of Russia’s obsession with war, a modern-day Thoreau pens a social media anti-manifesto, and more