September 2016

Jeet Heer in conversation with Margaret Atwood.

China in Africa, and the making of the next outsourcing hub

Kate Eichhorn on the surprising political and cultural legacy of the photocopier, in Adjusted Margin

Daniel J. Levitan’s A Field Guide To Lies is a survival manual for the post-factual era

Deborah Campbell’s haunting account of her search to find her fixer, and friend, in A Disappearance in Damascus

Barbarian Lost, Alexandre Trudeau’s whirlwind, and sometimes cliché-rich, tour of China

Zoe Whittall’s brave new novel, The Best Kind of People, explores rape culture as seen from the inner circle of the accused

The subject of much posthumous literary snooping, the reclusive poet Elizabeth Bishop is revealed in her work, suggests Eleanor Cook

In Tim Falconer’s memoir-cum-study, Bad Singer, an answer to why we sing

The gap between religious rights and the rights of the rest

In Campaign Confessions, John Laschinger tells tales from his 50-odd campaigns in Canada and beyond

A secularist takes comfort in the final outcome we spend our lives fighting, in Andrew Stark’s The Consolations of Mortality

Powerfully intimate, frustrating, illuminating and gratifying, Ellen Seligman’s editing was a kind of alchemy, writes the last author guided by that hand