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Despite the “America” of the title, Canada naturally figures prominently in this book about the beaver. Philip extols the creatures’ virtues and weirdnesses, and introduces us to those involved in their preservation.
, about the Irish author’s experience with testicular cancer, would seem at first to stand apart from its other pieces, many of which focus on his native Ireland or are profiles of authors such as Marilynne Robinson and John McGahern. But here too, is Toibin’s familiar humour and grace. After he’s told he needs to see an oncologist, “I comforted myself by pretending that, because of my abiding interest in the mysteries and niceties of Being, I had to see an ontologist.
Are you sitting down? Good, because it turns out there’s a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, that’s causing us to spin around it at great speed. Maybe the chocolate bars need a rethink. Smethurst, an Oxford astrophysicist with a popular YouTube channel, here gives an entertaining and easily digestible guide to black holes – which only went from theory to accepted fact in the 1920s, thanks to the advent of photography.
Faubert, a lawyer, has pieced together the life of her late mother-in-law, Wanda Gizmunt, to revisit a scandalous episode in Canadian history. After suffering in a forced-labour camp in Nazi Germany, Wanda was among 100 young Polish girls brought to Canada by Quebec businessman and MP Ludger Dionne to work at his textile mill under humanitarian auspices, but where she and the others were again exploited.
THE MISADVENTURES of a RARE BOOKSELLER, wherein the theory of the profession is partially explained, with a variety of insufficient examplesGopnik borrows a magicians’ term – ”the real work,” referring to the true, deep mastery over craft – to set the stage for this “self-help book that won’t help,” in which he offers himself up as apprentice to masters in seven fields , including illustration, magic, baking, driving and boxing.
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