Readings

The author of Malice of Fortune, a new novel that throws Niccolo Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci together in the midst a murder mystery-cum-political thriller, wonders what the author of The Prince would make of the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign.

Because sometimes a writer needs to spend years living with a loathsome character.

Linguists studying beer commercials have found that we think of beer as a person. And this says a lot about the way we think of people.

The Stephen Leacock Medal winner and author of the just published Up and Down picks his ten favourite books about space.

Does a “higher power” have a place in modern therapy?