The Bibliopod: On Edith Whartonmania and indie publishing
This week on Maclean’s podcast about books, we interview Stephanie Clifford about Edith Wharton, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis
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Books
Cheetos? You can thank the U.S. military for those.
Book review: An insider look at how America’s military-industrial complex spawned some of our favourite foods
Fictionalizing the accounts of women in the Second World War
Book review: ’The Race for Paris’ reimagines the swashbuckling journalist Martha Gellhorn’s adventures in the Second World War
Why libraries matter
Despite the benefits of the digital revolution, the history of the library reveals a mutable survivor that’s vital for democracy
Digging into fertile literary ground
Book review: Rob Cowen’s haunting ’Common Ground’ is another instalment in the Brits’ tradition of wonderful nature writing
The lonely life of a unique genius
Book review: What it’s like to be inside the buzzing, brilliant mind of British mathematician John Horton Conway
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Aug 11
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
A complex novel grows in Brooklyn
Book review: Set in 2003 Brooklyn, Tanwi Nandini Islam’s ’Bright Lines’ depicts a plucky place before the hipster overrun
Why Edith Wharton haunts us still
Stephanie Clifford’s highly anticipated debut rides a wave of love for the timeless literary formula of Edith Wharton
A history of Greenwich Village’s full cast of characters
Book review: Folk City: New York and the American Folk Musical Revival