Faith Johnston

Since winning the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy has devoted most of her time to writing articles for Outlook, the Guardian and occasionally the New York Tim...

Dr. Azra Raza believes cancer research and treatment is on the wrong track. In The First Cell Raza, a professor at Columbia University and oncologist for over 30 years, argues that most drugs being de...

Jillian Horton is a Winnipeg doctor who has worked in the field of internal medicine for 20 years. In this courageous memoir she tells why she almost gave up a profession she loves, and what she learn...

The recent massacre of a Muslim family in Ontario shows how far some Canadians have to go in welcoming Canada’s diverse population. Not likely, though, that they will appreciate this artful coll...

This impressive first novel by Toronto lawyer Reema Patel is set in Mumbai, where Patel once worked in the youth non-profit sector and in human rights advocacy. It features a former street child, Rakhi, who now works as an office peon for an NGO called Justice for All.

Méira Cook’s new novel about seven months in the life of Charlie Minkoff and his grandfather, Oscar, is not a straightforward read. It challenges conventional ideas about adolescence, paren...

If you have ever travelled Highway 45, south of Riding Mountain National Park, you will remember seeing a sign for Waywayseecappo First Nation. It’s a name no one could ever forget.

Tomson Highway’s latest book is a series of five lectures from the CBC Massey Lectures, intended to spread the ideas of groundbreaking Canadians. They will be broadcast on CBC’s Ideas in November.

Fresh from his award-winning history of the Hudson Bay Company, 2021’s The Company, historical non-fiction author Stephen Bown has in his latest book tackled a much more complicated period in Canadian...

Residential-school novella a brief, beguiling account