The Bibliopod: On Edith Whartonmania and indie publishingThis week on Maclean’s podcast about books, we interview Stephanie Clifford about Edith Wharton, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis
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 WarBook review: ’The Race for Paris’ reimagines the swashbuckling journalist Martha Gellhorn’s adventures in the Second World War
Why libraries matterDespite the benefits of the digital revolution, the history of the library reveals a mutable survivor that’s vital for democracy
Digging into fertile literary groundBook review: Rob Cowen’s haunting ’Common Ground’ is another instalment in the Brits’ tradition of wonderful nature writing
The lonely life of a unique geniusBook review: What it’s like to be inside the buzzing, brilliant mind of British mathematician John Horton Conway
A complex novel grows in BrooklynBook review: Set in 2003 Brooklyn, Tanwi Nandini Islam’s ’Bright Lines’ depicts a plucky place before the hipster overrun
Why Edith Wharton haunts us stillStephanie 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 charactersBook review: Folk City: New York and the American Folk Musical Revival