http://www2.macleans.ca Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Fri, 24 May 2013 03:39:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/23/how-to-host-a-dinner-party/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/23/how-to-host-a-dinner-party/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 15:42:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=386684 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/23/how-to-host-a-dinner-party/feed/ 0 Corey Mintz wrote the book on that. No, really. http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/11/weve-got-your-weekend-covered/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/11/weve-got-your-weekend-covered/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 12:30:12 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=382709 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/11/weve-got-your-weekend-covered/feed/ 0 Our latest book reviews, plus the week's bestsellers http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/a-curious-man-the-strange-and-brilliant-life-of-robert-believe-it-or-not-ripley/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/a-curious-man-the-strange-and-brilliant-life-of-robert-believe-it-or-not-ripley/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 17:30:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=381695 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/a-curious-man-the-strange-and-brilliant-life-of-robert-believe-it-or-not-ripley/feed/ 0 Our review of author Neal Thompson's 'A Curious Man' http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/the-last-man-in-russia-the-struggle-to-save-a-dying-nation/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/the-last-man-in-russia-the-struggle-to-save-a-dying-nation/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=381689 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/the-last-man-in-russia-the-struggle-to-save-a-dying-nation/feed/ 0 Author Oliver Bullough explains in his new book, 'The Last Man in Russia' http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/a-constellation-of-vital-phenomena/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/a-constellation-of-vital-phenomena/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=381691 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/a-constellation-of-vital-phenomena/feed/ 0 Book by Anthony Marra http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/life-in-a-marital-institution-twenty-years-of-monogamy-in-one-terrifying-memoir/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/life-in-a-marital-institution-twenty-years-of-monogamy-in-one-terrifying-memoir/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=381693 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/10/life-in-a-marital-institution-twenty-years-of-monogamy-in-one-terrifying-memoir/feed/ 0 Author James Braly pens a raw and hilarious account of a marriage http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/09/all-that-is/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/09/all-that-is/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=381697 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/09/all-that-is/feed/ 0 By James Salter http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/09/saving-italy-the-race-to-rescue-a-nations-treasures-from-the-nazis/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/09/saving-italy-the-race-to-rescue-a-nations-treasures-from-the-nazis/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 12:30:00 +0000 Jessica Allen http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=381699 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/09/saving-italy-the-race-to-rescue-a-nations-treasures-from-the-nazis/feed/ 0 A review of Robert M. Edsel's third book http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/never-mind-spring-weekend-cleaning-heres-to-spring-weekend-reading/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/never-mind-spring-weekend-cleaning-heres-to-spring-weekend-reading/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 14:41:40 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=380297 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/never-mind-spring-weekend-cleaning-heres-to-spring-weekend-reading/feed/ 0 Our latest book reviews, plus the week's bestsellers http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/and-hell-followed-with-her-crossing-the-dark-side-of-the-american-border/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/and-hell-followed-with-her-crossing-the-dark-side-of-the-american-border/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 13:30:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=379304 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/and-hell-followed-with-her-crossing-the-dark-side-of-the-american-border/feed/ 0 Our review of David Neiwert's 'And Hell Followed with Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border' http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/math-on-trial-how-numbers-get-used-and-abused-in-the-courtroom/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/math-on-trial-how-numbers-get-used-and-abused-in-the-courtroom/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=379300 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/math-on-trial-how-numbers-get-used-and-abused-in-the-courtroom/feed/ 0 By Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/a-skeptics-guide-to-the-mind-what-neuroscience-can-and-cannot-tell-us-about-ourselves/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/a-skeptics-guide-to-the-mind-what-neuroscience-can-and-cannot-tell-us-about-ourselves/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=379302 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/03/a-skeptics-guide-to-the-mind-what-neuroscience-can-and-cannot-tell-us-about-ourselves/feed/ 0 Author Robert A. Burton explains what neuroscience can and cannot tell us about ourselves http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/02/country-girl-a-memoir/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/02/country-girl-a-memoir/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=379306 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/02/country-girl-a-memoir/feed/ 0 By Edna O’Brien http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/02/salt-sugar-fat/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/02/salt-sugar-fat/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=379308 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/02/salt-sugar-fat/feed/ 0 Our review of Michael Moss's new book http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/02/the-secret-lives-of-sports-fans-the-science-of-sports-obsession/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/02/the-secret-lives-of-sports-fans-the-science-of-sports-obsession/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 15:50:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=379298 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/02/the-secret-lives-of-sports-fans-the-science-of-sports-obsession/feed/ 0 Eric Simons's new book delves deep into the science of fandom http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/01/stalins-curse-battling-for-communism-in-war-and-cold-war/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/01/stalins-curse-battling-for-communism-in-war-and-cold-war/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 13:30:01 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=376533 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/01/stalins-curse-battling-for-communism-in-war-and-cold-war/feed/ 0 Here's our review of Robert Gellately's 'Stalin's Curse' http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/30/the-woman-upstairs/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/30/the-woman-upstairs/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:10:01 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=376529 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/30/the-woman-upstairs/feed/ 0 Author Claire Messud pens a novel of cerebral melodrama http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/29/just-what-kind-of-a-mother-are-you/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/29/just-what-kind-of-a-mother-are-you/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:40:01 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=376535 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/29/just-what-kind-of-a-mother-are-you/feed/ 0 By Paula Daly http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/28/the-art-of-controversy-political-cartoons-and-their-enduring-power/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/28/the-art-of-controversy-political-cartoons-and-their-enduring-power/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:00:01 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=376527 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/28/the-art-of-controversy-political-cartoons-and-their-enduring-power/feed/ 0 Victor S. Navasky's new book on images that sting worse than words http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/27/the-divorce-of-henry-viii-the-untold-story/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/27/the-divorce-of-henry-viii-the-untold-story/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:50:01 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=376537 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/27/the-divorce-of-henry-viii-the-untold-story/feed/ 0 The only boring part of Catherine Fletcher's new book is the title. Here's our review. http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/26/lets-explore-diabetes-with-owls-essays-etc/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/26/lets-explore-diabetes-with-owls-essays-etc/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:20:01 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=376531 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/26/lets-explore-diabetes-with-owls-essays-etc/feed/ 0 Turning 50 adds to author's arsenal of life experiences to lampoon http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/your-weekend-starts-here/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/your-weekend-starts-here/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:33:53 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=374296 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/your-weekend-starts-here/feed/ 0 Our latest book reviews, plus the current bestsellers http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/a-death-in-the-lucky-holiday-hotel-murder-money-and-an-epic-power-struggle-in-china/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/a-death-in-the-lucky-holiday-hotel-murder-money-and-an-epic-power-struggle-in-china/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:05:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=373089 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/a-death-in-the-lucky-holiday-hotel-murder-money-and-an-epic-power-struggle-in-china/feed/ 0 Power and spin in China as told by authors Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/the-unchangeable-spots-of-leopards/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/the-unchangeable-spots-of-leopards/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=373083 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/the-unchangeable-spots-of-leopards/feed/ 0 Book by Kristopher Jansma http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/the-hungry-ghosts/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/the-hungry-ghosts/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=373087 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/the-hungry-ghosts/feed/ 0 Book by Shyam Selvadurai http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/what-ever-happened-to-al-capp/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/what-ever-happened-to-al-capp/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:08:49 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=372065 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/what-ever-happened-to-al-capp/feed/ 0 Here's our review of a new book on the complicated comic-strip artist who created Li’l Abner http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/drunk-mom-a-memoir/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/drunk-mom-a-memoir/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=373079 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/drunk-mom-a-memoir/feed/ 0 Book by Jowita Bydlowska http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/15/how-anne-carson-makes-us-wish-we-were-smarter/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/15/how-anne-carson-makes-us-wish-we-were-smarter/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:55:06 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=371898 ']]> http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/15/how-anne-carson-makes-us-wish-we-were-smarter/feed/ 0 Our review of the Canadian poet's latest book, 'Red Doc 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http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/11/a-road-trip-in-gun-country-results-in-a-book/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/11/a-road-trip-in-gun-country-results-in-a-book/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:30:33 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=369639 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/11/a-road-trip-in-gun-country-results-in-a-book/feed/ 0 Here's our review of Dan Baum's 'Gun Guys' http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/10/author-margorie-senechal-resurrects-a-brilliant-female-scientist/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/10/author-margorie-senechal-resurrects-a-brilliant-female-scientist/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:30:22 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=369629 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/10/author-margorie-senechal-resurrects-a-brilliant-female-scientist/feed/ 0 Our book review of 'I Died for Beauty' http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/09/a-novelist-on-the-death-of-her-brother/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/09/a-novelist-on-the-death-of-her-brother/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:40:38 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=369622 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/09/a-novelist-on-the-death-of-her-brother/feed/ 0 Our book review of Helen Humphreys's 'Nocturne' http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/09/the-prince-who-advised-the-rolling-stones/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/09/the-prince-who-advised-the-rolling-stones/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:34:16 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=369613 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/09/the-prince-who-advised-the-rolling-stones/feed/ 0 Our book review of Prince Rupert Loewenstein's 'A Place Among Stones' http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/weekend-must-reads-on-prince-spartacus-and-winston-churchill/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/weekend-must-reads-on-prince-spartacus-and-winston-churchill/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:50:01 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=365509 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/weekend-must-reads-on-prince-spartacus-and-winston-churchill/feed/ 0 Our latest book reviews, plus the week's bestsellers http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/prince-is-hungry-for-both-religion-and-sex-in-toures-reverent-new-biography/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/prince-is-hungry-for-both-religion-and-sex-in-toures-reverent-new-biography/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:47:21 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=365523 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/prince-is-hungry-for-both-religion-and-sex-in-toures-reverent-new-biography/feed/ 0 Our review of a new book about pop music’s hypersexual icon of diversity http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/book-review-vampires-in-the-lemon-grove/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/book-review-vampires-in-the-lemon-grove/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:41:20 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=365513 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/book-review-vampires-in-the-lemon-grove/feed/ 0 Book by Karen Russell http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/book-review-young-titan-the-making-of-winston-churchill/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/book-review-young-titan-the-making-of-winston-churchill/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:33:59 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=364657 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/28/book-review-young-titan-the-making-of-winston-churchill/feed/ 0 Our review of Michael Shelden's book, 'Young Titan' http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/27/book-review-criminal-enterprise/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/27/book-review-criminal-enterprise/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:57:59 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=364589 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/27/book-review-criminal-enterprise/feed/ 0 Book review: 'Criminal Enterprise' is crime writing at its finest http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/26/the-truth-about-the-gladiator-spartacus/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/26/the-truth-about-the-gladiator-spartacus/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:26:44 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=364584 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/26/the-truth-about-the-gladiator-spartacus/feed/ 0 Our review of Aldo Schiavone's latest book http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/25/book-review-napalm-an-american-biography/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/25/book-review-napalm-an-american-biography/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:26:16 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=364578 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/25/book-review-napalm-an-american-biography/feed/ 0 Book by Robert M. Neer http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/22/springtime-reading-from-clive-davis-and-scientology-to-polar-bears-and-zelda-fitzgerald/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/22/springtime-reading-from-clive-davis-and-scientology-to-polar-bears-and-zelda-fitzgerald/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:06:52 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=363672 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/22/springtime-reading-from-clive-davis-and-scientology-to-polar-bears-and-zelda-fitzgerald/feed/ 0 Our latest book reviews and bestsellers http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/22/give-me-everything-you-have-on-being-stalked/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/22/give-me-everything-you-have-on-being-stalked/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=362632 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/22/give-me-everything-you-have-on-being-stalked/feed/ 0 Book by James Lasdun http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/21/the-soundtrack-of-my-life/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/21/the-soundtrack-of-my-life/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=362628 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/21/the-soundtrack-of-my-life/feed/ 0 Book by Clive Davis with Anthony DeCurtis http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/21/beyond-belief-my-secret-life-inside-scientology-and-my-harrowing-escape/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/21/beyond-belief-my-secret-life-inside-scientology-and-my-harrowing-escape/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:00:00 +0000 Bookmarked http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=362636 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/21/beyond-belief-my-secret-life-inside-scientology-and-my-harrowing-escape/feed/ 0 Book by Jenna Miscavige Hill with Lisa Pulitzer