July 1, 2024Sign up
 Lara PingueLara Pingue 
Happy Canada Day long weekend. Today, we've rounded up seven recipe books to help you cook up something new this summer. Also, we caught up with Margaret Atwood in B.C.’s Denman Island, where the literary icon used her star power to boost the local writers' festival. Read more.

Are you reading anything good right now? I want to hear about it. Please email me here with your recommendations, and in the meantime check out our latest mini-review from Globe reader Kelly Irwin, who recently enjoyed the graphic novel memoir, I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together, a heartwarming (and heartbreaking) story about growing up gay in a socially conservative family. See our full list of book recommendations.

You can find our weekly bestsellers list here. Please share this newsletter, and if it was forwarded to you, visit our signup page to subscribe to this and other Globe and Mail newsletters.

The Globe and Mail
Read Story

Kerry Dawson/Supplied
Denman Island, British Columbia
Read Story
Jeenah Moon/The Globe and Mail
Annandale, N.J.
Read Story
Joe Maiorana/The Associated Press
Chicago
Read Story

tonivaver/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Read Story

Illustration by Dorothy Leung
Read Story
Supplied
Read Story
Sponsor content
supplied
Read Story

Thanks for reading. If you have any feedback on today’s newsletter, reach out to the newsletter team.

Are you reading us on the web or did someone forward the e-mail version to you? If so, you can sign up for Books here.

Finally, for technical problems with this newsletter, please contact Customer Support.