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Like the stinging wasps in Dante’s Inferno, something needled me as I read Katabasis, the latest from R.F. Kuang, academic and best-selling author of Yellowface, Babel, and The Poppy War series. [...]

Pilgrimage by John Broderick ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alright, I’ll admit it: I have a crush. But this isn’t just any crush. It’s on a bookstore: McNally Jackson in New York City. Have we met? No. Do they know I [...]

Over the course of Ron Chernow’s lengthy (and I mean lengthy) new biography of Mark Twain, the titular subject comes to feel like a beloved house guest who overstays his welcome. Yet, once gone, [...]

Nasty rumours, intricate plots, boldfaced lies, declarations of love, and accusations of murder – letters containing all these flit across Renaissance Italy in Laurent Binet’s epistolary [...]

You haven’t read a book like The Buffalo Hunter Hunter before. This captivating, disturbing blend of vampire mythology and Indigenous history offers something new to the horror genre. Released on [...]

Anne Tyler’s Three Days in June is a svelte, finely crafted exploration of faithfulness, forgiveness, and family. Her sentences string together like the lace of a wedding veil, a gossamer that [...]

“Anyway, I think, she’s dead, and though I loved her, I now have both the time and freedom to write my essay on Montaigne . . .” With these startling words, Mark Haber launches his tragicomic [...]

If you’re looking to cozy up and get lost in a ripping yarn this holiday season, Held by Anne Michaels isn’t the book for you. But if you’re up for confronting life’s biggest questions, it might [...]

Playground, the latest from Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Powers, uses the island of Makatea as a microcosm for contemporary debates about AI, environmental justice, and neocolonialism. [...]