Books

We asked the 2018 nominees: Who are you writing for, who is your imagined or intended reader?

Michael Palin on the Erebus shipwreck resonates around the world: ’A dramatic, catastrophic failure is always a great story’

The proudly pro-choice bestselling novelist insists her divided nation can come together—and even Texas evangelicals can be willing to listen to alternate views on abortion

’Trickster Drift’, a pop culture-horror-comedy-Heiltsuk mythology mash-up, includes a sci-fi loving ghost and a ravenous monster living inside his aunt’s skin

The celebrated author of ’Washington Black’ is already nominated for three major awards, including the Man Booker—an echo of Edugyan’s achievement in 2011

Cohen lives on with a new book, and a new album is even in the offing

Bidini, who visited Yellowknife eight times for his new book, recalls catching a 10-pound northern pike and being dazzled by skies of gold, purple and rosewater

Q&A: Elizabeth Hay’s new book bravely reckons with sibling tensions and filial love as she grapples with being a caregiver for her aging parents

The Giller jury says its 12 long-listed books ’sing about the erased, the immigrants, the oppressed, the survivors, the entitled’

Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel says brain imaging shows talk therapy can change brain biology—and even fight depression