BooksFranzen’s ’Purity’: On the new Stasi and the stasis of doomed loveJonathan Franzen’s hotly anticipated fifth novel tome, ’Purity,’ is a massive tome calculated to thrill his acolytes and incite his critics
SocietyAshley Madison hack: Project Unicorn meets The Scarlet LetterThe revelation that the site’s hack has led to unconfirmed suicides is an odd tidbit. Has moralizing infiltrated the investigation of the leak?
PodcastThe Bibliopod: On the cult of Amazon and magical realismThis week on Maclean’s podcast about books, in conversation with Louise Penny
PodcastThe Bibliopod: On Edith Whartonmania and indie publishingThis week on Maclean’s podcast about books, we interview Stephanie Clifford about Edith Wharton, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis
OttawaFive non-partisan reasons Elizabeth May belongs in all the debatesFrom diversity to on-site fact-checking, here are five reasons why the Green Party’s Elizabeth May deserves a spot at future debate podiums
BooksWhy Edith Wharton haunts us stillStephanie Clifford’s highly anticipated debut rides a wave of love for the timeless literary formula of Edith Wharton
OttawaAll together now: ’Mission accomplished’Anne Kingston on the first big act of a 79-day national drama
TelevisionChris Hyndman’s death is a loss to the national familyHe was one half of a pop-culture pair like Nick and Nora or Sonny and Cher—a couple who were as charming off the screen as they were on it
CultureBill Cosby: It took a villageNew York magazine’s bombshell of a cover shows it took 35 women (and counting) for Cosby’s rape allegations to be taken seriously
PodcastThe Bibliopod: ’Go Set a Watchman,’ and our cookbook appetiteThis week on Maclean’s podcast about books, we discuss Harper Lee’s latest and why we love books about food