An affirmation of the universal heroism of working women
Book review: Elena Ferrante’s ’The Story of the Lost Child’ completes her series about two childhood friends, this one a reflection on aging and will
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Salman Rushdie talks about his (sort of) optimistic new novel
Rushdie’s latest, ’Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights,’ is a meditation on the mutability of the world
Lawrence Hill: ’For us, the only legitimate refugee is in a camp’
In Lawrence Hill’s new and prescient novel, a brilliant runner fleeing crisis is a metaphor for the endless movement of African peoples
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Sept. 8
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
The systemic ills of medicine on black America
Book review: In ’Black Man In A White Coat,’ a black doctor takes a hard look at his industry’s relationship to his race
A layperson’s guide to architecture, arranged in clear, clean lines
Book review: Full of cocktail-party tidbits, Witold Rybczynski’s lucid essay collection showcases the best and worst in architecture’s history
Why Wiliam Lyon Mackenzie King was as great a leader as FDR
Massey Lectures: Margaret MacMillan on leadership and masters of the body politic
The Bibliopod: What makes a ’buzz book,’ and a Massey preview
This week on Maclean’s books podcast: What buzz looks like for the books industry in 2015. Plus: an interview with historian Margaret MacMillan
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Sept. 1
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
Franzen’s ’Purity’: On the new Stasi and the stasis of doomed love
Jonathan Franzen’s hotly anticipated fifth novel tome, ’Purity,’ is a massive tome calculated to thrill his acolytes and incite his critics