Books

A review of ’Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk was America’s Favorite Spectator Sport’ by Matthew Algeo

KITTY GENOVESE: THE MURDER, THE BYSTANDERS, THE CRIME THAT CHANGED AMERICA By Kevin Cook Her death has had something for...

Maclean’s political editor Paul Wells is in the running for the political writing prize, to be awarded at the Politics and the Pen gala

This week’s reviews: a divorce lawyer’s novel about divorce, George Will on Wrigley Field, and a shocking look at American prisons

A review of ’The Hotel on Place Vendôme: Life, Death and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris’ by Tilar Mazzeo

A review of ’The Caregivers: A Support of Group’s Stories of Slow Loss, Courage and Love’ by Neil Lake

A review of ’A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred’

A review of ’The Divorce Papers’ by Susan Reiger

A review of ’Inferno: An Anatomy of Punishment’ by Robert A. Ferguson

From 2014: Dr. Lance Dodes on why AA’s promotion of abstinence may be a problem