The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of June 23
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
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Science fiction, in the literal sense of the term
Book review: A microbiologist-turned-author’s collection of short stories captures the cold precision of science
Two lions in winter: How to save a public library
Book review: Scott Sherman tries to expose the corporate-vs-literary battle over the venerable New York Public Library
Following the money, with electric prose
Book review: Alan Pauls, a rising literary star from Argentina, writes a novel that’s balances substance and style
What is European soccer’s recipe for success? Money.
No salary caps and no draft picks. It is the rich against the richest
The unglamorous plight of a female alcoholic
A blackout drinker’s memoir as cautionary tale
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of June 16
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
Double agents are cool. So cool.
Book review: Naveed Jamali’s 9/11-spawned spy thriller makes it look so easy
Do women writers have ‘literary cooties’?
A remarkable study of the kinds of books that win big prizes reveals this: Don’t write about women. Unless, that is, you’re a man.
When a ’genius’ wrote a zombie novel
Book review: Aleksandar Hemon weaves undead fiction into a very real war