Camilla Gibb explains why writing ’This Is Happy’ was a godsend
Camilla Gibb’s haunting memoir, a finalist for the 2016 RBC Taylor prize, heads to the heart of what family means
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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.
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Jan. 19
The week’s hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
A high school drop-out turned Harvard academic on the fallacy of averages
Todd Rose explains why the idea of average is damaging, especially when it comes to education
The Donald Trump of ancient Rome?
Comparing America to Rome used be an old parlour game. But a bestselling book offers too many echoes to be ignored
Of pros and cons: Why we get suckered
A new book by Maria Konnikova is a lucid exploration on how con men get away with their plots
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Jan. 12
The hottest titles from the week that was, in fiction and non-fiction
Is geoengineering the solution to saving the Earth?
Climate-change skeptics and environmentalists both hate the idea. But is ‘veiling’ the Earth the only quick solution to a climate change-catastrophe?
On the Marx: Groucho’s specifically ethnic comedy
A new biography filters Groucho Marx’s life through the Marx Brothers’ second-generation immigrant status
Do machines make better doctors?
What’s next, not just for society, but for suddenly vulnerable professionals? A new book examines the future of jobs
The Sunni vs. Shia schism, and why it matters 1,300 years later
It would be simplistic to say the sectarian outrage over Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shia cleric was only religion-driven—and would ignore key history