Readings

Diptych of author Hanif Abdurraqib and his book, There's Always This Year
Grief and Devotion on the Three-Point Line: An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib

The author of There’s Always This Year on basketball, what drags him to the page, and the communal act of fasting.

orange snake and red mushroom
A Hairsplitter’s Odyssey

Probe all the nuances, niceties, and subtle shades of meaning your little heart desires.

A portrait of author Hisham Matar, seated in a chair in front of an abstract background of birds and circles.
The Missing

A User's Guide to Hisham Matar

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Dark Matter

For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure. 

Diptych of author Anthony Oliveira and the book cover for Dayspring
Crush on the Cross: An Interview with Anthony Oliveira

The author of Dayspring discusses queerness, Christianity, and the anxious sense that history is over.

A graphic of two anthropomorphic books, one bright pink and one pale cream, with a background of a city skyline and two piles of books on either sides.
The Two Solitudes of Book Design

From spartan cream to splashy blobs, Canada's French and English literary cultures have their own separate visual languages.

Diptych of author Colin Barrett and the book cover of his novel Wild Houses
In the Kidnapper’s Kitchen: An Interview with Colin Barrett

The author of Wild Houses on peripheral main characters, small town lore, and growing up around people of “miscellaneous occupation.”

Two people sitting on chairs with their backs to each other and to their surroundings, with the smoke stacks of Auschwitz in the background and the smoking rubble of Gaza reflected in the pool in the foreground.
The Making of the Genocidal Mind

The genocidal mind is not the preserve of cartoon monsters in history books. It is a collusion of psychological habits groomed and grown in people like us when we fixate on our private gardens.

A painting of a man kneeling, surrounded by a circle of legs. He wears a white tank top and there is blood on his body.
Writing a Novel With Pictures

Smuggling contraband in from the realm of the actual.