The Writing Life
David Bezmozgis: When novel and real time clash
Giller Prize nominee David Bezmozgis’s taut political story is set in modern Crimea
Frances Itani: Tracing the aftershocks
The Great War still dominates the peacetime lives of characters from the earlier novel of Giller nominee Frances Itani
Sean Michaels: When the story is stranger than fiction
The winner of the 2014 Giller Prize expounds on the thin line between fact and fiction, and the value of the digital world
Padma Viswanathan: Shadowed by a bombing
The Giller prize-nominated author writes on the protagonist of her latest novel who seemed to demand she delve into the 1985 Air India bombing
Heather O’Neill: Addicted to the drug of books
The Giller prize-nominated author describes growing up an unrestrained bookworm in a lower-class, motherless home
Miriam Toews: Nudging along a difficult conversation
The award-winning author is pleased Canadians are talking, but she is nudging the conversation along.