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Books
Away Game is a baseball-time-travel mash-up
An entertaining read from former Maclean’s editor Bob Levin
Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth is an expansive family saga
Ann Patchett’s latest novel seeks meaning in the twisting trajectory of life experience
The Reformation train wreck
The first of many books to mark the 500th anniversary of the start of the Reformation
Margaret Atwood recasts The Tempest inside a prison
Margaret Atwood on her contribution to the Hogarth Shakespeare project
The unjudging eye of Ed Burtynsky’s camera
From 2016: One of Canada’s finest photographers considers his craft—and the relationship between his art and the truth
The lessons we still have to learn, five months after the Ghomeshi trial
Kevin Donovan’s new book on the Jian Ghomeshi investigation and trial shows us how far we haven’t come on conversations around sexual assault
The purpose of human pride
Why ’the deadliest sin’ is the key to human success
Marni Jackson makes a strange and clever fiction debut
Marni Jackson’s first novel is filled with tales of celebrities presiding over a life
A economist’s denunciation of cash
How the majority of the world’s paper cash fuels organized crime