Way back when the Greeks had it right
Book review: Josiah Ober’s take on economic and political equality in ancient Greece
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Let a hundred readers bloom: Chinese literature goes global
Chinese books arrive on the international scene—and accordingly lower their expectations
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of June 2
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
The sad, strange life of Joseph Stalin’s daughter
Svetlana Alliluyeva spent a lifetime trying to escape the shadow of her father. Patricia Treble speaks to her biographer, Rosemary Sullivan
A travelogue of Greece’s economic ruins
A journalist criss-crosses Greece to trace the Western world’s most serious financial collapse
The fertile poverty of Toronto’s first immigrant neighbourhood
An ode to the erased ward of St. John’s, which once repelled and fascinated early Torontonians
Why the Lincoln Center is important
Reynold Levy’s book is a warts-and-all look behind the scenes of the Lincoln Center’s transformation through trying times
Marina Endicott’s remarkable prose in the round
Book review: ’Close to Hugh’ approximates the theatre in the pages of an incisive fiction
The restoration of poetry’s place
Out of fashion for centuries, poets have been patient. And sometimes it pays off.
The Bibliopod: The literary community’s cronyism problem
This week we take on the debate over whether literature’s cozy community is a problem with reviews, and much more