Interview

The author of Rise of the Necrofauna on cloning departed pets, important beetles, and the power of the northern white rhino. 

The author of Collected Tarts and Other Indelicacies on The Simpsons, pranks, and saying hello to puppies. 

The author of Augustown on belief, class and racism in Jamaica, and unhappy endings. 

The As It Happens host and author of All We Leave Behind on fighting to cover conflict as a female journalist in the '80s, Canada's refugee system, and maintaining a moral compass. 

The author of F-Bomb discusses men's rights activists, the changes in modern feminism, and why the movement can't be a monolith. 

The journalist and author of The Only Café on violence, how curiosity sparks our accumulation of memory, and why nothing is ever new. 

The author of Her Body and Other Parties on writing the fantastical, existing in the periphery and blueprints of the past. 

The authors of Lost in September and Strangers with the Same Dream talk about the relationship between a writer and her characters, motherhood and work, and sexism in publishing.

The author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth on the novelist’s responsibilities in times of political chaos, the bending and breaking of structure and genre, the shifting nature of Jewishness and identity, and his ultimate subject: right, wrong, and why we crave it.