Readings

The author of My Name Is a Knife on historical fiction, frontier life, and sharing headspace with her characters. 

My grandfather had never told me about his trip to the Soviet Union in the sixties, but I don't know why I was surprised. He never told me anything, not even my grandmother's name.

The author of A Terrible Country on what a story about Russia can say about America, dark moments during writing, and why there aren't more novels about hockey.

I was told getting laid off from my dream job had nothing to do with me, but after I was let go, I felt like I had lost a part of myself that I couldn't get back. 

The author of Boys: What It Means to Become a Man on navigating masculinity in parenting, sex education and sports. 

Just as a wall does not separate but binds two things together, language keeps us inextricably entangled and inextricably separate.

Ambulance services, at their core, are about transportation. We arrive at the crisis point of a story and we almost never witness its resolution.

With his unconventional take on children's television, Mr. Rogers helped redefine the male role model.

Susan Peters was an Academy Award-nominated actress, a trainee pilot, a medical student. But it was a shooting incident in 1945 that would come to define her.