Read and Recommended

On the Prince and Princess of Wales's 15th anniversary, biographer Russell Myers offers insight into the royal couple's past, present and future

Add these literary and non-fiction takes on the subconscious to your to-be-read list

Our Zed writers offer up three fiction gems from last year – covering a wide emotional spectrum – that left an impression.

If you’re planning to read with intention this year, this list of recent titles will help you connect with nature, age with positivity and liberate yourself from clutter. What better way to feed your body, mind, spirit – and your bookshelves.

Hosting family or friends this holiday season or need a perfect hostess gift? These new books on entertaining will bring warmth, magic and sparkle to all your festivities.

These must reads examine the extraordinary life of an Ontario centenarian, a literary dragon and an iconic Afghanistan hotel

Besides this month’s scintillating literary debuts, the November lineup of new books can best be described as prodigal, with big, buzzy returns to fiction for eminent writers like Salman Rushdie, Olivia Laing and George Packer – as well as John Irving, who, after 40 years, revisits the Maine orphanage setting of his The Cider House […]

Our editors are raving about a new kitchen confidential, as well as thrillers, chillers and a meditation on serial killers

Summer is here and Zed contributors are fully immersed. In this roundup, we set out with Dan Rubinstein on his paddleboard adventure and dive into Robert Macfarlane’s treatise on the rights of rivers. Edward St. Aubyn – of Patrick Melrose fame – is back with a witty new novel and one reviewer says S.A. Cosby’s […]

Zed contributors are an eclectic bunch and so are their latest picks. We’ve got a novel set in Tobago and one in Hungary, and there are works from masters of horror and of romance, and lots and lots of writing about food – including what goes down in the world’s most famed kitchens and what’s […]