Books

The author of Stay With Me on how stories find you, remembering both sides of a proverb, and discovering your characters. 

The author of News from the Red Desert on the desire for action, the futility of violence and capturing the truth of conflict through fiction. 

The author of the National Book Award-winning Sing, Unburied, Sing on the pressure of accolades, discovering new stories and processing pain. 

The author of Little Fires Everywhere on class markers, digging into the suburbs, and the depictions of East Asian characters in art. 

As an actor, director, writer and producer, she’s often examined women on the verge of reconfiguration. Her latest project, an adaptation of Alias Grace, is one she’s been thinking about for decades.

Leonard Cohen's decision to pursue music as a career certainly proved a good one—for him and for us—but I'm still curious about what we lost when he gave up writing fiction.

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

Discovering the balance between grace and effort in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. 

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