The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of June 23
The hottest titles in 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.
Newsmaker: Pope Francis wades into the climate-change wars
The Pope’s speech asks the whole world to listen to his pleas about climate change—and even invites Naomi Klein to Rome to help
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of June 16
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
Do women writers have ‘literary cooties’?
A remarkable study of the kinds of books that win big prizes reveals this: Don’t write about women. Unless, that is, you’re a man.
Glaciers aren’t only a northern thing
Book review: A look ahead to a warmer world, where glaciers no longer catch fire
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of June 9
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
The Interview: Patrick deWitt, on life after ’The Sisters Brothers’
Award-winning novelist Patrick deWitt on his newfound fame, the author tour—and judging a book based on its characters’ likeability
Way back when the Greeks had it right
Book review: Josiah Ober’s take on economic and political equality in ancient Greece
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of June 2
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
The fertile poverty of Toronto’s first immigrant neighbourhood
An ode to the erased ward of St. John’s, which once repelled and fascinated early Torontonians