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• Weaving a story of family trauma and celebrating the beauty in survival (Sun, Jun 15, 2025)
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• For Indigenous players, ice hockey is a ceremony of its own (Wed, Jun 11, 2025)
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• Taylor Jenkins Reid is among the stars — on and off the page (Sun, Jun 08, 2025)
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• Alison Bechdel on making money and seeing Fun Home in a new light (Wed, Jun 04, 2025)
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• David A. Robertson puts stories at the heart of reconciliation (Sun, Jun 01, 2025)
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• An opera singer gives voice to the Grenadian revolution (Wed, May 28, 2025)
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• When young men murder, what can we learn? (Sun, May 25, 2025)
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• Music, sex and finding the soundtrack to queer joy (Wed, May 21, 2025)
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• Weightlifting made Casey Johnston stronger — in muscle and mind (Sun, May 18, 2025)
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• Fans asked for another happy ending — Carley Fortune delivered (Wed, May 14, 2025)
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• Bookends Introduces | Understood: Who Broke the Internet (Mon, May 12, 2025)
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• Ocean Vuong finds beauty in a fast food shift (Sun, May 11, 2025)
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• Writing about catastrophe gives Madeleine Thien courage (Wed, May 07, 2025)
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• Fighting for an unlawful love in Uganda (Sun, May 04, 2025)
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• NOT CLICKBAIT! She stole her dead twin sister’s identity!? (Wed, Apr 30, 2025)
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• What if your dreams could land you in jail? (Sun, Apr 27, 2025)
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• Meet the winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize (Wed, Apr 23, 2025)
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• Why you can’t forget your first love (Sun, Apr 20, 2025)
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• Why growing up is so hard — and why Canadians are so funny (Wed, Apr 16, 2025)
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• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s triumphant return to fiction (Sun, Apr 13, 2025)
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• Scaachi Koul calls herself a professional ex-wife (Wed, Apr 09, 2025)
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• Yes, tuberculosis is still a thing — John Green tells us why (Sun, Apr 06, 2025)
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• Mapping the stories of Uganda’s abducted children (Wed, Apr 02, 2025)
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• Kate Bush spins a magical story on her album Hounds of Love (Sun, Mar 30, 2025)
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• Curtis Sittenfeld is fascinated by fame (Wed, Mar 26, 2025)
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• Emma Donoghue boards a train destined for disaster (Sun, Mar 23, 2025)
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• Why Heather O’Neill believes in magic (Wed, Mar 19, 2025)
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• Getting to know Canada’s king of suspense (Sun, Mar 16, 2025)
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• How Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath inspired a novel about chronic pain (Wed, Mar 12, 2025)
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• We can still avoid a tech dystopia — here’s how (Sun, Mar 09, 2025)
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• In the Caribbean, secret lives come at a cost (Wed, Mar 05, 2025)
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• Pitbull, Scarface and a whale walk into a book (Sun, Mar 02, 2025)
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• Emily Austin: Would life be easier as a rat? And other ways to escape adulthood (Wed, Feb 26, 2025)
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• Nnedi Okorafor: Bringing a writer to life in Death of the Author (Sun, Feb 23, 2025)
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• Jack Wang: Reimagining the lost stories of Chinese Canadians during WWII (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)
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• Helen Phillips: In a world run by AI, what makes us human? (Sun, Feb 16, 2025)
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• Daniel Aleman: Loneliness inspired a novel about a Grindr date gone fatally wrong (Wed, Feb 12, 2025)
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• Kate Gies: Reclaiming her body after years of medical trauma (Sun, Feb 09, 2025)
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• Emma Knight: 'Bad' mothers make good stories — and are more true-to-life (Wed, Feb 05, 2025)
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• Imani Perry: Tracing blue through Black American life (Sun, Feb 02, 2025)
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• Chris Ware: Inside the sketchbooks of a comics master (Sun, Jan 26, 2025)
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• Amy Lin: Widowed at 31, she looks for the beauty in grief (Wed, Jan 22, 2025)
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• Rumaan Alam: How would you spend a billion dollars? (Sun, Jan 19, 2025)
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• Rachel Robb: Exploring reconciliation and the natural world (Wed, Jan 15, 2025)
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• Judith Butler: Breaking down why people fear gender (Sun, Jan 12, 2025)
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• Zoe Whittall: Why heartbreak is a valid form of grief (Wed, Jan 08, 2025)
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• Adrian Tomine: Answering his readers’ burning questions (Sun, Jan 05, 2025)
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• Bookends: Highlights from 2024 (Sun, Dec 29, 2024)
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• Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel (Sun, Dec 22, 2024)
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• Bryan Lee O’Malley: 20 years of Scott Pilgrim (Wed, Dec 18, 2024)
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• Nita Prose: The Maid series returns with a Christmas twist (Sun, Dec 15, 2024)
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• Charles Burns: Why the comics icon keeps returning to teenage angst (Wed, Dec 11, 2024)
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• Pasha Malla: Parodying a wellness resort with horror and humour (Sun, Dec 08, 2024)
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• Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words (Wed, Dec 04, 2024)
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• Nalo Hopkinson: How Caribbean folktales inspired her fantastical novel, Blackheart Man (Sun, Dec 01, 2024)
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• Leslie Jamison: Capturing Peggy Guggenheim in fiction and honouring a friend's dream (Wed, Nov 27, 2024)
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• Teresa Wong: Illustrating her family's past — in all its ordinary and epic moments (Sun, Nov 24, 2024)
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• Paula Hawkins: Exploring the dark side of the art world in new thriller The Blue Hour (Wed, Nov 20, 2024)
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• Anne Fleming: Why her latest novel is a gender-bending tale of witchcraft and forbidden love (Sun, Nov 17, 2024)
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• Eric Chacour: Exploring the power of familial expectations and forbidden love (Wed, Nov 13, 2024)
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• Rachel Kushner: In Booker Prize finalist Creation Lake, an agent provocateur faces deep questions about how to live (Sun, Nov 10, 2024)
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• Alan Hollinghurst: Coming of age in Britain and writing through the gay gaze (Wed, Nov 06, 2024)
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• Fawn Parker: Blending her own grief with fiction in new novel Hi, It’s Me (Sun, Nov 03, 2024)
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• Erica McKeen: Using horror and surrealism to explore grief, care and love in new novel Cicada Summer (Wed, Oct 30, 2024)
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• Jeff VanderMeer: How his blockbuster Southern Reach series reflects our own fight against climate change (Sun, Oct 27, 2024)
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• V.V. Ganeshananthan: Exploring the complexity of Sri Lanka's civil war in her prize-winning novel, Brotherless Night (Wed, Oct 23, 2024)
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• Corinna Chong: Uncovering long buried truths against the backdrop of Alberta's Badlands (Sun, Oct 20, 2024)
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• Jenny Heijun Wills: Sharing her journey of transracial adoption and self-discovery in her moving essay collection (Wed, Oct 16, 2024)
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• Matt Haig: A surprise inheritance, a magical island and why he's embracing hope — in fiction and life (Sun, Oct 13, 2024)
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• Aldona Dziedziejko: Poetic reflections on land and loss wins 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize (Wed, Oct 09, 2024)
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• Casey McQuiston: Celebrating queer love and joy and navigating the future of romance (Sun, Oct 06, 2024)
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• Tanya Talaga: Searching for her great-great grandmother — a story of family, truth and survival (Sun, Sep 29, 2024)
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• Alison McCreesh: Exploring the magic and nuance of life in the North in her latest graphic novel (Wed, Sep 25, 2024)
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• Aysegul Savas: Finding home in foreignness and capturing the uncertainty of early adulthood (Sun, Sep 22, 2024)
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• Sloane Crosley: Losing her best friend and sharing her grief with the world (Wed, Sep 18, 2024)
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• David Huebert: Exploring the complexity of our relationship with oil through fiction (Sun, Sep 15, 2024)
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• Heather O'Neill: How motherhood and artistry intersect in the bestselling writer's life and work (Wed, Sep 11, 2024)
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• Kaveh Akbar: Finding meaning in sobriety and writing his bestseller, Martyr! (Sun, Sep 08, 2024)
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• Introducing Bookends with Mattea Roach (Fri, Sep 06, 2024)
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