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Book review: Vendela Vida uses the second-person voice to great effect
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What it feels like to be read a bedtime story by Adrienne Clarkson
It’s not every day that a former governor general reads you a bedtime story. But then Adrienne Clarkson loves to delight. Get cozy as the beloved Canadian reads the Maurice Sendak classic Higglety Pigglety Pop!
Glaciers aren’t only a northern thing
Book review: A look ahead to a warmer world, where glaciers no longer catch fire
The true story of one of Berlin’s vanished Jews
Book review: The long-buried memoir of a Jew who ‘passed’ during WWII
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of June 9
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
Read the winner of the 2015 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust student contest
Here’s Nico Branham’s winning entry, ’Outside the Window, a Billion Stars Are Moving Past Me at the Speed of Light’
The Interview: Patrick deWitt, on life after ’The Sisters Brothers’
Award-winning novelist Patrick deWitt on his newfound fame, the author tour—and judging a book based on its characters’ likeability
A real-life Peggy Olson tells all
Book review: Stevie Phillips dishes about Judy Garland, her time at CMA, and her personal triumphs as a starmaker
Leo Koretz, the Bernie Madoff of the Roaring Twenties
Book review: The story of astonishing duplicity from a man who ran a Ponzi scheme better than Ponzi himself
Giving Otis Redding the ’Respect’ he deserves
Book review: Full of bold claims (and dodgy allegations), a new biography makes the case for Otis Redding