Featured
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Palin title fight
By Brian Bethune - Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 20 Comments
Get ready for a pile of new books about the famous VP candidate
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The huge secret about FDR’s death
By Brian Bethune - Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 8 Comments
Americans were told their president died of a sudden stroke. Not true, says a new book.
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Beatty’s 12,775 women? Ridiculous.
By Brian D. Johnson - Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 3 Comments
The actor wanted a book for his kids ‘that gave him his due as a filmmaker.’ This isn’t it.
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Tales of over-the-top Christmas
By Brian Bethune - Monday, December 14, 2009 - 4 Comments
In a wealthy suburb, a writer discovers people who take celebrating to a whole new level
Reviews
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‘Blood’s a Rover,’ by James Ellroy
By Michael Barclay - Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 0 Comments
The author suffered a breakdown and fell in love while writing the last book of the trilogy—no wonder it’s a little unfocused
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‘Learn to Speak Music,’ by John Crossingham
By Michael Barclay - Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 2 Comments
A Canadian indie musician teaches the Owl Magazine set how to jam, write chorus and verse—and much more
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‘The Man Who Loved Books Too Much,’ by Allison Hoover Bartlett
By Brian Bethune - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 3 Comments
The compelling true-life tale of a rare book thief and an amateur detective, aka “bibliodick,” in a multi-year cat and mouse game
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‘Waiting For Columbus’ by Thomas Trofimuk
By Colin Campbell - Monday, August 17, 2009 - 1 Comment
An impressive novel, blending the history of Christopher Columbus with a modern-day mystery
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‘Inherent Vice’ by Thomas Pynchon
By Brian Bethune - Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 2 Comments
All of Pynchon’s eternal themes and quirks are on display, including paranoia, wretchedly named characters and endless pop culture references
Recommended
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Green Party leader Elizabeth May recommends Wayson Choy’s ‘Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying’
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 1 Comment
‘The narrative moves in and out of dimensions of human existence with an illuminating clarity of vision’
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Environment Minister Jim Prentice recommends ‘Dangerous River’ by R.M. Patterson
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 0 Comments
‘The most dog-eared, rumpled, scotch and water stained book in my library’
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Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay recommends Jim Collins’ ‘Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t’
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 0 Comments
A study of companies that made a remarkable advance and sustained those results for at least 15 years.
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CNN’s Ali Velshi recommends Annie Proulx’s ‘Accordion Crimes’
Monday, July 27, 2009 - 0 Comments
The story of “an accordion maker from Sicily who follows his dreams to America”
News
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Twenty Years After
Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 0 Comments
Salman Rushdie plans to write about his time in hiding
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Masks and un-wearable shoes
Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 1 Comment
The Lady Gaga books just keep coming
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Plagiarism? What’s that?
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 3 Comments
A teenage German author seems unfamiliar with the concept
Q&A
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Q & A: Will Ferguson
By Philippe Gohier - Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 10 Comments
The Canadian author took an arduous journey across Northern Ireland, falling asleep in pubs and making sense of Protestants and Catholics
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Ian Rankin on his new book ‘The Complaints’
By Patricia Treble - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 4 Comments
The Scottish novelist discusses the retirement of his most famous character and why he’ll be taking the next year off from writing.
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How e-mail rots your brain
By Brian Bethune - Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 35 Comments
John Freeman, the author of The Tyranny of E-Mail on why “any email correspondence is always a few exchanges away from a fight”
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Famed Julia Child editor Judith Jones on her new book, ‘The Pleasures of Cooking for One,’ and why she felt the need to write it
By Anne Kingston - Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 2 Comments
A conversation with Anne Kingston
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The Interview: Richard Dawkins
By Jonathon Gatehouse - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 153 Comments
On Darwin, faith and natural selection, and why creationists are simply history deniers
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Sending the media a message
By Colin Campbell - Friday, September 4, 2009 - 1 Comment
The author of ‘The Chaos Scenario’ on why mass media, mass marketers and network TV have become powerless
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Q & A with Richard Williams, Venus and Serena’s famous father
By John Intini - Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 5 Comments
The former-coach-turned-writer talks about creating champions, his critics, parenting, and the problem with tennis
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Maclean’s Interview: Theodore Roszak
By Anne Kingston - Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 3 Comments
Author Theodore Roszak on the boomers’ final revolution, the female caregiver as a radical force, old drivers and the end of sex
