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Francesca Ekwuyasi Brings Vibrant Literary Prowess to Canada’s East Coast

Ekwuyasi’s work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging.

Halifax writer Francesca Ekwuyasi got her start when she was 10, writing fictional stories in her journal. In her early 20s, still in her native Lagos, Nigeria, she began writing short stories, ultimately submitting one for publication around 2015.

Canadian Novelist Marlowe Granados on Blurring the Lines Between Party Girl and Poet

Taking whimsy seriously.

Happy Hour is a tribute to a particular frenetic pace among New York’s social elite, one sometimes lived by these kinds of characters—modern femmes fatales and manic pixie dream girls.

Canadian Author Naben Ruthnum Talks Technology and Diversity Politics

In his new book A Hero of Our Time, Ruthnum offers a fierce critique of the tech world and the profit-driven strivers who populate it.

Ruthnum is a student of form as much as substance, and his latest novel was the only way to contain some of the sweeping ideas about technology, diversity politics, and the modern workplace that had been nagging at him for months.

Author Camilla Gibb on Literature, Life, and the Role of Writer in Troubled Times

Letters from lockdown.

After the dissolution of her marriage, Camilla Gibb lost the ability to write fiction. The stories vanished, fluttering off somewhere out of reach, and it took many years for the acclaimed writer to hold them in her hands again.

Stephen Graham Jones Battles Stereotypes and Serial Killers in His Breakout Novel

The perils of being a good Indian.

Stephen Graham Jones, member of the Blackfeet Nation, is an athlete of the printed word, often localizing common slasher tropes in the context of Indigeneity.

Ian Williams Is Changing the Rules of the Canadian Novel

A flood of the present.

Ian Williams is concerned with social honesty expressed through immaculate craft. In a time when many novels try to jockey for the hippest or most woke, Williams deals with the messy ambiguities, which is why a family is the perfect vehicle.

Author Pico Iyer Meditates on Love, Loss, and the Beauty of Life in Japan

Seasons of change.

Travel writer Pico Iyer discusses his new memoir, Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells.

The Life and Work of Zadie Smith

Freedom of literary voice.

Grand Union, a new collection of short stories by Zadie Smith, is out. The British author, who burst onto the scene in 2000, continues to be a voice for literary freedom, heralding a humanity that is collective and diverse—in which we all belong to something greater.

Deborah Levy

On writing.

The celebrated author has had an impressive career that spans plays, radio dramas, short fiction, poetry, novels, and most recently, a series of critically acclaimed volumes she calls “living autobiographies”.

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