The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Jan. 5
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
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.
Slade House: Another brick in David Mitchell’s wall
Mitchell is a detail obsessive, the mark of a storyteller
Tehran’s hidden cache of art treasures comes to the West
An incredible and seldom-seen modern art collection, full of Warhols and Picassos, leaves Iran for a tour of the West, starting with Berlin
The books we’ll read in 2016
The new year’s most-anticipated books, and its most unlikely and controversial hits
Pope Francis has unfinished business
Welcoming the marginalized may prove easier for the Pope than cleaning up Church finances
Newsmakers 2015: Harper Lee sets off a firestorm
The controversy and panic over Harper Lee’s first book in 55 years missed something remarkable
State of the art: The year’s artistic newsmakers
From a billionaire philanthropist to a Syrian photographer, a look at three people who made waves in the art world in 2015
Ai Weiwei vs. Lego: Free expression trumps commerce
The Chinese dissident’s beef with the iconic toymaker sparked a wave of Lego rage around the globe
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Dec. 1
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
A foggy memory: The fade of fog from our literary imagination
Charles Dickens may have done it best. But dense, misty and occasionally deadly fog has had a literary—and literal—impact on London.