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Brian Bethune

Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.

Andre Alexis celebrates winning the prestigious Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize by feting the rise of the small-press publisher

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Columbia professor Susan Pederson has won the world’s richest award for history writing

We asked everyone shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize: Would you change something about one of your books after it was published?

Marilynne Robinson combines politics, religion and a deep reading in American history

We asked everyone shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize: Would you change something about one of your books after it was published?

We asked everyone shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize: Would you change something about one of your books after it was published?

We asked everyone shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize: Would you change something about one of your books after it was published?

Read a selection from the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner’s novel, ’Fifteen Dogs’

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