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The Governor General’s Award–winning author of the novels ’Ru’, ’Mãn’ and now ’Vi’ is still unpacking her own experience: ’In a refugee camp, you live outside of time.’

Mark Sakamoto says his grandparents’ forgiveness of the wrongs done to them in the Second World War helped him overcome the struggles in his own life

The author of The Imperfectionists on making his characters lovably unlikeable: ’Great literature is full of difficult but compelling characters’

Plagued for years by his ’party prince’ reputation, Harry’s upcoming wedding to Meghan Markle marks a new chapter, says biographer Katie Nicholl

But in his new book Enlightenment Now, Pinker warns authoritarian populism on the right, and repressiveness on the left, could thwart progress

Talaga’s book, a wrenching account of the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay, was one of the most acclaimed non-fiction titles of 2017

“A Long Way from Home” delves into the crimes that built a continent, and how to move forward: “Guilt is such a wrong word. The useful word is, I think, responsibility.”

The literary blend of horror, fantasy and sci-fi is in the mainstream spotlight, with VanderMeer’s Annihilation now a Hollywood production

Former GQ Russia editor Michael Idov says the nations share magical thinking and addiction to simplistic narratives

Maggie O’Farrell’s memoir recounts 17 brushes with oblivion—including her daughter’s terrifying anaphylactic episode