The history and the wisdom of Hermann Rorschach’s ink blots
Rorschach’s famous ink blots have been dismissed as parlour tricks. But they’re still used worldwide, even as they turn 100 years old
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.
How beauty from the brush of Claude Monet was born from war
A captivating new book describes how Claude Monet painted his placid scenes with First World War shells sounding in the distance
Steve Bannon’s dangerous reading list
The voracious reader is said to admire the writings of authoritarian intellectuals whose views helped fuel inter-war fascism
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of Feb. 7
Kyo Maclear and James Corey are the new leaders atop our fiction and non-fiction lists
The modern world’s mass violence is almost entirely due to civil wars
The wounds of civil war are deeper and worse than the wounds in conventional, interstate wars
RBC Taylor Prize: Spotlight on Marc Raboy
McGill professor Marc Raboy’s biography of Guglielmo Marconi examines the inventor’s ties to fascism
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of Jan. 31
Roxane Gay cracks our fiction list as Michael Lewis and Peter Wohlleben continue to dominate as non-fiction top sellers
Diane Schoemperlen on what happens when a writer falls for a killer
Read an excerpt from Diane Schoemperlen’s RBC Taylor Prize-nominated book, ’This Is Not My Life’
A dystopian reading list for the Donald Trump era
Our books writer Brian Bethune puts together a list of recommended reads for making sense of Donald Trump’s presidency
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of Jan. 24
New reads by Ross King and Danielle Martin crack our non-fiction bestsellers, while Madeleine Thien loosens her grip atop our fiction list