Payam Akhavan on the sacrifices needed to make the world safer
From 2017: A call to action from the UN’s youngest-ever war crimes prosecutor
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.
Adam Gopnik’s memoir is part love story set in 1980s New York
The former Montrealer and New Yorker writer recalls a time of "nascent corruption...when Donald Trump first emerged like a weed"
Helen Humphreys’ latest book is a hybrid of fiction and fact
Novelist Helen Humphreys talks about how the death of loved ones sent her across the continent in pursuit of vanished apple varieties
How CanLit was born
Brave publishers, great books and Canada’s newfound affluence combined to set the scene for the CanLit explosion of the late ’60s
The unknown story of how 300,000 Jews were saved in WWII
In secret talks, would-be saviours duped Himmler into thinking he should stop the extermination of Jews
Q & A: Garrett Graff on Trump, nukes and emergency planning
The U.S. government has an intricate plan to survive a nuclear war. In the Trump era, the blueprint might need an update
Q&A: Caroline Moorehead on a mother’s fight against Italian fascism
Her latest book explores the life of single mother Amelia Rosselli, a playwright and activist at a time when Mussolini decreed women were second-class
The untold story of the Ritchie Boys
How German-Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis gathered military intelligence in Europe for the U.S.
And now, a word from the Oxford English Dictionary
The spring list of additions to the venerable word compendium shows how technological change affects language
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of June 27
From Paula Hawkins to Sherman Alexie, these are the hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction