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Jack Wang reimagines lost stories of Chinese Canadians during WWII

The Vancouver-born author discussed The Riveter on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
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Helen Phillips' new book explores what makes us human in a world run by AI

The American writer discussed Hum on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
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How loneliness inspired Daniel Aleman's novel about a Grindr date gone fatally wrong

The Toronto writer discussed I Might Be in Trouble on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
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How writing about her medical trauma helped Kate Gies reclaim her body

The Toronto author discussed her book, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
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The octopus metaphor at the heart of Emma Knight's novel about motherhood

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Imani Perry traces blue through Black American life, starting with her grandmother's room

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Cartoonist Chris Ware invites readers inside his personal sketchbooks

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Amy Lin, widowed at 31, looks for the beauty in grief

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Rumaan Alam's latest novel steps into a world of wealth — and questions who's entitled to it

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Here's what authors are coming to Bookends in 2025

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Judith Butler breaks down why people fear gender

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Rachel Robb explores what reconciliation means to a non-Indigenous person and wins 2024 CBC Poetry Prize

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Zoe Whittall explains why heartbreak is a valid form of grief

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Adrian Tomine answers his readers' burning questions in his latest graphic novel

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Bryan Lee O'Malley reflects on Toronto nostalgia and 20 years of Scott Pilgrim

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Bookends with Mattea Roach

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Bookends revisits Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with 2024 Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey

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Nita Prose's novella features The Maid characters with a Christmas twist

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Why Charles Burns keeps returning to teenage angst in his graphic novels

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Pasha Malla parodies a wellness resort with horror and humour in new novel

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Sarah Leavitt illustrates the tender and complex grief of her partner's assisted death

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Nalo Hopkinson weaves Caribbean folklore and dialect into her latest fantasy novel Blackheart Man

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How Leslie Jamison helped realize her friend's final dream — and brought the story of Peggy Guggenheim to life

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Teresa Wong's search for family connection led to her graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories

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The Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins turns to the mysterious art world in latest thriller

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Anne Fleming's novel Curiosities transports readers to the plagues, witch hunts and love stories of the 1600s

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Éric Chacour's debut novel is an ode to the power of queer love — even when it's forbidden

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Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake revolves around an anti-hero spy poised to take down an eco-commune

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Alan Hollinghurst explores identity and political change in his latest novel, Our Evenings

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Fawn Parker blends her own grief with fiction in her novel Hi, It's Me

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Hear a festive conversation with mystery writer Nita Prose on a live taping of Bookends with Mattea Roach

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