Interview

'I Decided to Go With Humanity': An Interview with Carol Off

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. 

'People Like to Watch Feminism as a Spectacle': An Interview with Lauren McKeon

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

'We Do Things to Survive That Are Not Always Pretty': An Interview with Linden MacIntyre

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

'Being a Woman is Inherently Uncanny': An Interview With Carmen Maria Machado

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

Evoking the Mystery of the Unknowable World: A Conversation Between Kathleen Winter and Alison Pick

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.

'If You're a Writer, Literature Has Saved You At Some Point': An Interview with Nathan Englander

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. 

'The Bonds of Power Are Diffuse': An Interview with Jenny Zhang

The author of Sour Heart on survival, memory and grace. 

'There Are Universal Human Roots for Every Problem': An Interview with Zinzi Clemmons

The author of What We Lose on identities, the inability to be cured of grief, and abortion as a debate between something and nothing.

'It's Not Magic, It's About Proximity to Truth': An Interview with Sarah Meehan Sirk

The author of The Dead Husband Project on Sartre, motherhood and solving proofs. 

'There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to be Alone': An Interview with Michael Finkel

Talking to the author of The Stranger in the Woods about the hermit subject of his new book, what it takes to survive 27 years in solitude, and finding contentment in isolation.