Brian Bethune

Geology professor Salomon Kroonenberg explains ‘Why Hell Stinks Of Sulfur’

Why Hell Stinks Of Sulfur: Mythology And Geology Of The Underworld
by Salomon Kroonenberg…

by Brian Bethune - Friday, June 14, 2013
Staring war criminals in the face

James Dawes on evil men

by Brian Bethune - Friday, June 7, 2013
Stratford Festival’s celebrity power

Can Stephen Lewis, Colin Mochrie and Tommy guitar school reboot the indebted festival?

by Brian Bethune - Monday, June 3, 2013
How humans will survive a mass extinction

Our review of Annalee Newitz’s book, ‘Scatter, Adapt, and Remember’

by Brian Bethune - Friday, May 24, 2013
Book review: La Historia del Español: The Story of Spanish

By Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow

by Brian Bethune - Thursday, May 23, 2013
Conrad Black on his strategic history of the U.S.

In conversation with Brian Bethune on his new book, America’s best presidents—and his take on China

by Brian Bethune - Monday, May 13, 2013
Why Russians are disappearing

Author Oliver Bullough explains in his new book, ‘The Last Man in Russia’

by Brian Bethune - Friday, May 10, 2013
Why so many people–including scientists–suddenly believe in an afterlife

Heaven is hot again, and hell is colder than ever

by Brian Bethune - Tuesday, May 7, 2013
1979: The year everything changed

The 21st century really began in 1979, when four unlikely radicals stepped onto the world stage

by Brian Bethune - Sunday, May 5, 2013
Paris Reborn: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, And The Quest To Build A Modern City

Book by Terrance Balazo

by Brian Bethune - Saturday, May 4, 2013
Book review: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind

Author Robert A. Burton explains what neuroscience can and cannot tell us about ourselves

by Brian Bethune - Friday, May 3, 2013
Book review: The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power

Victor S. Navasky’s new book on images that sting worse than words

by Brian Bethune - Sunday, April 28, 2013
Book review: A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel

Power and spin in China as told by authors Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang

by Brian Bethune - Friday, April 19, 2013
Esther’s new incarnation

A scroll of an ancient story with a modern punch is reproduced down to the fingerprints

by Brian Bethune - Sunday, April 14, 2013
A road trip to gun country results in a book

Here’s our review of Dan Baum’s ‘Gun Guys’

by Brian Bethune - Thursday, April 11, 2013
A novelist on the death of her brother

Our book review of Helen Humphreys’s ‘Nocturne’

by Brian Bethune - Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Pope Francis: How the first New World pontiff could save the church

Will the Pope with the wry sense of humour and common touch actually reinvigorate the Church and the papacy?

by Brian Bethune - Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Book review: Napalm: An American Biography

Book by Robert M. Neer

by Brian Bethune - Monday, March 25, 2013
The future of the Church

Brian Bethune on demographics, ongoing scandals and the divide between secular and Catholic morality

by Brian Bethune - Saturday, March 23, 2013
Pope Francis: New World pope signals Third World issues will dominate Church

Maclean’s senior writer Brian Bethune reports from the Vatican

by Brian Bethune - Wednesday, March 13, 2013