Elizabeth Gilbert explains how she fell in love with best friendThe author of Eat, Pray, Love tells readers about her love for Rayya Elias
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Aug. 30Amy Schumer knocks out a longtime non-fiction number one, while Steven Price hustles up the board to try to steal Harry Potter’s crown
Colson Whitehead on reimagining America’s history of racism’I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved,’ says Colson Whitehead, author of ’The Underground Railroad’
Joy Kogawa’s reflections on global and personal woundsA Japanese-Canadian’s sombre memoir on a troubled past
Margaret Atwood’s first graphic novel tackles a cat problemWith her first graphic novel, Margaret Atwood is just one author considering the role of free-roaming cats in bird deaths
How statistics and language can mislead usDaniel J. Levitin’s timely guide to critical thinking in the digital age makes statistics both understandable and intriguing
Alan Moore and literature’s fascination with the fourth dimensionAlan Moore’s mammoth new book, ’Jerusalem,’ is ambitious—but he’s hardly the first literary light to explore the meaning and possibility of the fourth dimension
How we respond to mass deathWith no more unknown victims of mass deaths, there’s now a struggle between personal grief and public memorials
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Aug. 23Surprise surprise: Harry Potter takes the fiction crown again, while a new Amy Schumer book soars to the top of the non-fiction list