Interviews

Baldwin, Styron, and Me

Baldwin, Styron, and Me

"Everyone should know this story, now more than ever, this story of an improbable unwavering friendship.”

By Faith Paré

A Different Hurricane

A Different Hurricane

A Different Hurricane is a beautiful, brutal book about love in all its complexity.

By J.T. Wickham

Quietly, Loving Everyone

Quietly, Loving Everyone

The world, and time, is cyclical. Or are we a pendulum, swinging back and forth?

By Emma Dollery

The Third Solitude

The Third Solitude

"What does it mean to write our own history, or, more troubling, to write the life of another into being?”

By Elise Moser

Needle Work

Needle Work

An introduction to Canada's rich and complicated history of commercial tattooing.

By Yara El-Soueidi

My Thievery of the People

My Thievery of the People

My Thievery of the People helps us believe 2025 might not be that bad after all.

By Léa Murat-Ingles

La Belle-Mère / The Stepmother

La Belle-Mère / The Stepmother

This is a feminist project, one which imagines new modalities for intimate cohabitation and kinship.

By Klara du Plessis

When the Pine Needles Fall

When the Pine Needles Fall

Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and co-author Sean Carleton revisit the Oka Crisis in their new collaboration.

By Emma Dollery

Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim

Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim

Jacob Wren’s novel grapples with questions of violence, complicity, authority, collectivity, resistance, and doubt.

By H Felix Chau Bradley

The Reeds

The Reeds

Arjun Basu's novel is is a love song to Montreal in all of its gritty complexity and contradictions.

By Ami Sands Brodoff

The War You Don’t Hate

The War You Don’t Hate

Blaise Ndala’s blistering second novel is a searing satire of war and celebrity and their improbable connection.

By Ami Sands Brodoff