The changing shades of Flanders Fields
From 2015: A stellar cast of writers reflects on the poem that shaped the way we remember
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.
Rachel Cusk: ’On a winding road in the dark’
We profile the authors of the books nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize this year. Here, Rachel Cusk, author of Outline, describes her autobiographical focus
The great, wholly legal bank robbery
A new book looks at why it’s so expensive to be poor, and how it threatens democracy
You can go home again: Returning to 24 Sussex
Justin Trudeau is heading back to his boyhood home—one with memories of good times and tough
André Alexis: ‘Shut up and keep writing’
André Alexis, who won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize, gives advice on writing and discusses the link between the pen and the mind
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Oct. 20
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
Worshipping a history of porcelain
The White Road chronicles a history of men obsessed with porcelain
Retelling Shakespeare for modern times
Jeanette Winterson is one of a star cast ready to celebrate Shakespeare through cover stories
The migrant crisis: Warnings from the Holocaust
A historian warns that what killed millions in the mid-20th century—the destruction of states—is loose again
Rosemary Sullivan wins Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize
Sullivan honoured with $60,000 prize for for ’Stalin’s Daughter,’ a biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva