A veteran reporter on America’s ’forever war’
Former New Yorker staff writer Mark Danner on the prolonged War on Terror
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Books
The unseen history of ’white trash’
Nancy Isenberg examines the long history of class in America
A creepy new literary thriller from Iain Reid
Now, for something completely different from the Canadian award-winning author
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of June 14
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction in the week that was
The secret Canadian life of Jack Kerouac
Reading Kerouac’s lost French writings reveals the travails of a Canuck in America
The strange science of war, as told by Mary Roach
Another compulsively readable book from science writer Mary Roach
Chuck Klosterman’s strangely satisfying futurism
Klosterman’s new series of thought experiments is designed to question everything we take for granted
Why poetry disappoints us all
Ben Lerner explores The Hatred of Poetry with the best, and worst, the genre has to offer
What if stat nerds were given the keys to a pro baseball team?
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, two baseball wonks, get a chance to apply their wildest data dreams in real life
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of June 7
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction in the week that was