The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Mar. 29
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction from the week that was
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.
Did Jesus really exist?
Memory research has cast doubt on the few things we knew about Jesus, raising an even bigger question.
The First World War’s forgotten Southern Front
The latest in our monthly series looking at 1916, the year that marked the point of no return in the First World War
When God isn’t green: Religion versus the planet
Jay Wexler examines the collision of religious and environmental values
The book that gave us Shakespeare as we know him
Emma Smith’s close reading of Shakespeare’s first folio reveals a trove of information
Rosemary Sullivan wins the prestigious 2016 RBC Taylor Prize
Another award, another win for the biography of Joseph Stalin’s daughter penned by Sullivan, who thanked Stalin’s granddaughter for the access
Why embracing our inner polygamist is good for marriage
This book explores what humans have won, and lost, with the decline of polygamy
Why do so many jihadis have engineering degrees?
Two researchers comb through the records and discover that religious faith doesn’t drive Islamist terrorism
’The most fiercely protracted battle this earth had ever seen’
The year 1916 marked the point of no return in the First World War. A look at the titanic French-German struggle at Verdun
China’s one-child policy is over, but the fallout isn’t
The effects of the Middle Kingdom’s one-child policy, from the strictly economic to the social, will play out for decades to come