The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Mar. 1
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction from the week that was
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Seeking justice for Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s only daughter
Rosemary Sullivan’s biography on a sad, remarkable life has won the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize
The booming market in books for Muslim children
A new imprint focusing on Muslim stories for kids will give writers like Canada’s Rukhsana Khan a chance to reach an underserved population
A mischievous follow-up to The Elegance of the Hedgehog
In The Lives of Elves, Muriel Barbery proves she is doggedly brave by straying so far from her original best-seller
Why professional criticism still matters
New York Times critic A.O. Scott makes the case for the most maligned of literary figures
George Elliott Clarke takes risks in his new novel
A new novel from Canada’s parliamentary poet laureate attempts to mesh the oral and the written, with mixed results
Cervantes: The Man Who Invented Fiction
The lessons we can learn from Cervantes and his fiction are still relevant, this new biography shows
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Feb. 23
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction from the week that was
The Widow is a page-turner as engrossing as it is disturbing
Fiona Barton’s latest novel takes a compelling look inside a horrible crime
An exposé of the indentured servitude in the NCAA
’Indentured’ is a meticulous yet blistering book about the NCAA and its draconian laws and tactics. But can it move the needle?