20 books you should read this summer
Sink your teeth into these fiction and non-fiction picks at the park, at the cottage—or on a comfy chair in the backyard
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fiction
Elizabeth Gilbert: The ultimate lady whisperer
The ’Eat Pray Love’ author focuses her instinct for female longing on a creativity crisis
RBC Taylor Prize nominees: Kathleen Winter’s ’Boundless’
The Northwest Passage brought Kathleen Winter to a land too eloquent for fiction.
Sean Michaels: When the story is stranger than fiction
The winner of the 2014 Giller Prize expounds on the thin line between fact and fiction, and the value of the digital world
A tale of bad luck and big kindness
Book review: Lucky Us, by Amy Bloom
Get ready to weep at the trailer for The Fault In Our Stars
Pull out your box of tissues now
Honest Abe, off his rocker
For the record, Colby Cosh on some ’just plain weird’ alternate-universe U.S. history
Raunchy comedy stirs controversy at Western
Student filmmaker questioned by police for online teaser
The backlash against David Foster Wallace
Not everyone’s enamoured with the author who’s become a kind of fringe pop icon
REVIEW: The Family Fang
Book by Kevin Wilson