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Hazlitt talks to Margaret Atwood about her latest novel, MaddAddam, which completes the dystopic trilogy she began with Oryx and Crake. Plus everything from Twitter flirtations, military history, the state of Canadian literature, and cybersecurity.
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The author of The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever, shares his favourite attempts at describing intimations of eternal life.
Adam Gollner's The Book of Immortality explores the possibility of life after death, as well as the power of faith. Here, the author tours the sites that inspired the book, finding nothing and everything.
The Reason I Jump, by autistic Japanese teen Naoki Higashida, joins a recent spate of books featuring autistic characters. We talk with novelist David Mitchell about how translating Higashida's book into English transformed his understanding of his own son's autism.
Robert Coover's The Origin of the Brunists taught us something about the cult mentality: people will believe anything if they need to. And that belief will hold as long as people can shield themselves from evidence to the contrary--but can anyone, anymore?
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