The crossword’s meandering 100-year journey
How Britain and North America are divided by their common devotion to the world’s favourite wordplay
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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.
Without curiosity, an age of stagnation
The internet is promoting the wrong kind of curiosity, Ian Leslie writes
The end of neighbours
How our increasingly closed-off lives are poisoning our politics and endangering our health
Ikea provides an Allen key–to literature
The Swedish giant doesn’t just do affordable furniture, it’s also inspired a horror novel, a French bestseller and a museum
A detective hero for doomsday
It’s 14 days until a meteor hits Earth in Ben Winters’s pre-apocalypse trilogy. What will people do?
Rest assured: ebooks will not destroy books
Book review: The Library Beyond the Book
A whole new picture of the origins of the Great War
Review of July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War
How to be a better Canadian: Read Canadian literature
Maclean’s presents an instalment in our patriotic video series designed to hone your skills, add to your already encyclopedic knowledge of this great country and generally make you a super-Canadian. In this edition: The books that best capture the eternal themes that make CanLit Canadian, by Maclean’s senior writer Brian Bethune.
The uses and abuses of history
How an ancient historian became a Nazi
‘One way or another, we are in for big changes’
Naomi Klein, the activist author, turns her attention to climate change