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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.
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s intimate history of the gene
The author of The Emperor of All Maladies gives us a new book that’s beautifully written and deeply personal
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of May 24
With books by authors like David Baldacci and Anderson Cooper, here are the hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction from the week that was
The Battle of Jutland: chaotic, bloody and a mass of ironies
The naval Battle of Jutland in 1916, the hinge year of the Great War, upended neutrals around the world
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of May 10
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction from the week that was
Fighting the Taliban, one stroke at a time
The mesmerizing true story of Afghan squash champion Maria Toorpakai
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of May 3
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction from the week that was
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Apr. 26
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction from the week that was
Why the Easter Rising changed everything for Ireland
The Easter Rising is a foundational moment in modern Irish history and a reminder that by the end of 1916 there was no going back to the pre-WWI world
William Shakespeare: A man out of time
How Shakespeare’s plays—400 years later—have remained the best explorations of our own political and cultural fights