’Not all fairy tales are happy’
A review of "The Fairy Tale" by Jonas T. Bengtsson
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Books
Maclean’s Books: Your weekend reading awaits
This week: The Life of Ariel Sharon, Morrissey’s unorthodox autobiography and a serial killer in Nazi Berlin
Your weekend reading starts here
This week’s reviews: Inside the Nixons’ marriage, the CIA’s secret Arabists, and how greed killed beautiful birds
’From under this dirty dystopia comes a garbageman-cum-hitman’
A review of Shovel Ready
The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction
A review of A Feathered River Across the Sky
An Intimate Portrait of Richard Nixon’s Marriage
A review of Pat and Dick
An editor’s lifelong struggle with anxiety
Scott Stossel’s Fear, Hope, Dread and Search for Peace of Mind
The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
A review of America’s Great Game
’A story of human sacrifice from Athens’ mythic founding’
A review of ’The Parthenon Enigma’
’Finally, proof that 12 years of psychoanalysis paid off for someone’
A review of ’Little Failure: A Memoir’