Murder and conspiracy in Czarist Russia
Book review: ’A Child of Christian Blood,’ by Edmund Levin
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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.
The secret lives of networked teens
Author Danah Boyd on balancing parenting and privacy and the other side of online bullying
A call to arms for the call of the wild
An excerpt of J.B. MacKinnon’s Taylor Prize-nominated The Once and Future World
Computerized management programs create oppression in the workplace
Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are making Dumber Humans By Simon Head In this intricate exposition of Computer Business...
Bringing a dash of serendipity to the literary
A Toronto bookstore introduces readers to a very different kind of random house
Thomas King asks: What do whites want?
Taylor Prize nominee argues the issue that came ashore with the French and the English was—and remains—land
The secret program that brought Nazi scientists to America
A review of Annie Jacobsen’s Operation Paperclip
Building a legacy for Arthur Erickson
An excerpt from David Stouck’s Taylor Prize-nominated biography of Canada’s bad boy architect
Monkeys on an Incredible Journey
’After all, I had to have happened’
Maclean’s books: Excerpt from The Massey Murder
Biographer Charlotte Gray trades major figures for history’s forgotten faces in The Massey Murder