When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world... more
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When Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series was first published 10 years ago, it was a sensation. The mysterious environmental phenomenon... more
V.V. Ganeshananthan won two of the world's biggest fiction prizes this year: the U.K. Women's Prize and the Carol Shields... more
Alberta's Badlands, the world's largest dinosaur bone repository, set the eerie stage for Corinna Chong's novel Bad Land. It follows... more
Everything and Nothing At All by Jenny Heijun Wills is an essay collection where the author reflects on her experiences... more
In Matt Haig's latest bestseller, The Life Impossible, a retired math teacher goes on a Spanish adventure after inheriting a... more
Poet Aldona Dziedziejko's Ice Safety Chart: Fragments is a beautiful, experimental essay about different moments from Aldona's life in the... more
Casey McQuiston is a blockbuster queer romance author who hit it big with their 2016 novel Red, White and Royal... more
Annie Carpenter's life was upended by colonialism, the Indian Act and the residential school system. For 80 years, her family... more
When Alison McCreesh was 21, she left her Quebec hometown and hitchhiked to the Yukon searching for something she couldn't... more
The Paris-based Turkish writer spoke with Mattea Roach about her new novel, The Anthropologists, which centers on a young immigrant... more
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