REVIEW: The Fat Years
Book by Chan Koonchung
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.
REVIEW: How to Think Like a Neandertal
Book by Thomas Wynn and Frederick Coolidge
Obama family ties
Life in the fishbowl of the White House is an ongoing challenge for Barack and Michelle Obama
Bestsellers - Week of January 9th, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles
REVIEW: Heinrich Himmler
Book by Peter Longerich
The grim state of public manners
Henry Alford, The New Yorker’s New Yorker, on texting at dinner, clipping toenails in public, and why saying ’no problem’ is so rude
Bestsellers - Week of January 2nd, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles
The baby killer at Toronto’s Sick Kids was rubber
The real culprit for a wave of deaths in the early 1980s was a compound found in seals on IVs and syringes
Bestsellers - Week of December 19th, 2011
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles