After 150 years, Alice in Wonderland remains a shape-shifting tale about how we see childhood
From 2015: Alice’s story is still a work in progress, "a blank screen onto which we project all we want to throw at her.”
Books
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of May 26
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
Exposing the workers in the modern-day shadows: us
Book review: Craig Lambert argues that technology has created a middle-class serfdom preventing us from enjoying life
Microbes prove that size doesn’t matter
Paul Falkowski’s book is a big read about a little thing: the sophisticated, durable bacteria
Seeing life through grim prose-coloured glasses
Book review: Graham Swift’s morose stylings come through in his pensive short story collection
A coming of age story—in a dystopian afterlife
Book review: Canadian author Neil Smith’s debut, ’Boo’, posits a creepy, off-kilter reality for the youthful dead
America’s first and favourite dirty secret
Book review: Ardis Cameron’s look back on the legacy of ’Peyton Place’
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of May 19
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction
The hilarious afterlife of... Adolf Hitler?
Adolf Hitler continues to crop up in pop culture and serious history—and it says a lot about how we see evil and the past
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of May 12
The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction