The restoration of poetry’s place
Out of fashion for centuries, poets have been patient. And sometimes it pays off.
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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.
After 150 years, Alice in Wonderland remains a shape-shifting tale about how we see childhood
From 2015: Alice’s story is still a work in progress, "a blank screen onto which we project all we want to throw at her.”
The new era of gut research
Scientist Giulia Enders on the gut’s power to alter our immune system, weight, moods and memory
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of May 26
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
Could art forgeries be even better than the real thing?
Art forgers not only turn themselves in, they have lucrative careers even after conviction. Just ask Michelangelo.
Microbes prove that size doesn’t matter
Paul Falkowski’s book is a big read about a little thing: the sophisticated, durable bacteria
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of May 19
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
The hilarious afterlife of... Adolf Hitler?
Adolf Hitler continues to crop up in pop culture and serious history—and it says a lot about how we see evil and the past
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of May 12
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
A roiling, rollicking Irish stew of a book
Book review: Mairtin O’Cadhain’s 1949 Irish classic, freshly translated, is an ode to life, death, and Samuel Beckett