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Brian Bethune

Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.

The scary truth about Canada's wrongful convictions
Culture

The scary truth about Canada’s wrongful convictions

A new book explores why so many Canadians are imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit
Joshua Whitehead takes on CanLit

Joshua Whitehead takes on CanLit

In ‘Making Love With the Land,’ Whitehead moves between genres and languages in a series of essays that open up a whole new window on the meaning of Canadian literature
Six books to read this spring

Six books to read this spring

A novel by the creator of ’Little Mosque on the Prairie’ and an inside look at the race to develop the COVID vaccine are among our picks for the best reads of the spring