Six ways to escape holiday madness: Maclean’s book picks and bestsellers

Feature interview: 

• Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb divides the world into three

Our latest book reviews:

• The Pharoah: Life At Court and On Campaign, by Garry Shaw,  review by Brian Bethune

• Lenin’s Kisses, by Yan Lianke, review by Anne Kingston

• The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden, by Mark Bowden, review by Michael Petrou

• Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture, by David B. Dennis, review by Brian Bethune

• The Elephant Keepers’ Children, by Peter Høeg, review by Dafna Izenberg

• The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, by David Nasaw, review by Jaime J. Weinman