Giller Prize nominated, The Blue Light Project is Timothy Taylor's prescient meditation on art, loss, vanity and sacrifice.

Check out Wiliam Morassutti's review of Connnected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives and then hit "like" on Facebook.

Selected explores everything from why tall guys get payed the big bucks to why despotic rulers crop up time and time again in our egalitarian society to the importance of followers.

Hiding from your kids this holiday? Here's what to do read in your secret lair.

TORO associate editor, Erin Hershberg, sits down to chat with David Sedaris about his new book, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, and why she ate dog food to prepare for the interview.

In Home and Away, Dave Bidini, accompanies a group of derelict Torontonians as they head to Melbourne, Australia for the Homeless World Cup, what follows is a spirited series of misadventures.

The man born Shawn Carter recounts his life and picks apart his lyrics in the straightforward yet often thrilling autobiography Decoded.

Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters is a celebration of wine, in which Jonathan Nossiter tries to reclaim the language, identity and cultural significance of the practice of drinking from the grape. Plebes, clink your glasses and holler cheers!

With her new book, How To Be a Bush Pilot, former TORO sex columnist, Claudia Dey (aka Bebe O'Shea), delves even deeper into the world of copulation and comes out, err, on top.  

Charles Foran's biography of Mordecai Richler reveals the Canadian authour to be a complicated artist, pained son, and loving father and husband.