Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of November 18th, 2008)
Brian Bethune
Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
’Anathem’ by Neal Stephenson
There’s a space-opera mystery, aliens, kung-fu fighting and even romance, not to mention the revenge of the prime-believers over the cultural relativists.
Using bugs as weapons
From hurling beehives to maggot bombs, death comes in small packages
Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of November 11th, 2008)
A very small elephant in the room
Whatever literary prize juries may think, less, in Helen Humphreys’ hands, is decidedly more
They were ‘to set Europe ablaze’
In 1943, two Canadian spies went to France. Their timing couldn’t have been worse.
The tao of poop
The meaning of the ultimate euphemism is anything but simple
Wait, that looks like . . . Madeline?
The beloved children’s book icon returns, in a charming new work by its creator’s grandson
Thomas Disch, prophet
Thomas Disch died earlier this month, by gun, by his own hand, on Independence Day. That’s always a sad story, but this one...
Waiting for Stephenie Meyer
When I wrote about Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series this week I noted how the Phoenix author’s work is beginning to...