The woman who fought Catherine de’ Medici
Book review: Nancy Goldstone’s The Rival Queens
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In defence of a reviled rock’n’roll starmaker
Book review: Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out The Beatles, Made The Stones and Transformed Rock and Roll
An inside view of the Hermit Kingdom
Book review: Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
An Englishman writes the great Canadian gay historical novel
British novelist Patrick Gale reimagines the life of his great-grandfather, who left his family for Saskatchewan—a place of hardship and sexual liberty
Marketplaces are everywhere—even in online dating
Book review: A look at what makes good market design from game-theory pioneer Alvin E. Roth
What a white Milwaukee rapper can teach us about art
Why does the seemingly cringeworthy Juiceboxxx keep rapping, and what does it say about art in 2015? A review of the book ’The Next Next Level’
Jane Austen meets Hong Kong’s nouveau riche
Book review: ’China Rich Girlfriend,’ Kevin Kwan’s sequel to the bestselling ’Crazy Rich Asians,’ is perhaps even more delicious than the first
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of July 7
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
Why TV’s old fogeys are still winning
Book review: Media critic Michael Wolff explains why digital media may not truly be the future
The Bibliopod: Family, food and Fifty Shades, the sequel
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