Six ways to escape holiday madness: Maclean’s book picks and bestsellers
On pharaohs, Joseph P. Kennedy, the Nazis’ culture wars, plus the killing of Osama bin Laden
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book reviews
A dull gloss on the final assault
Michael Petrou reviews The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Review: Lenin’s Kisses
By Yan Lianke
Review: Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture
By David B. Dennis
Review: The Elephant Keepers’ Children
By Peter Høeg
Weekend reading: on Christmas trees, John Lennon and Saul Steinberg
Our latest book reviews and the week’s bestsellers
Review: Inventing the Christmas Tree
By Bernd Brunner
Review: The John Lennon Letters
Edited and with an introduction by Hunter Davies