Bookends with Mattea Roach
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Atonement turns 25: Ian McEwan in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Atonement, Ian McEwan’s beloved literary masterpiece, which has sold more than two million copies and inspired an Oscar-winning movie. The story begins with a 13 year-old girl…
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How dare we send children to war?
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Why should you know your birth story?
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The 98 rejections before hit novel Lessons in Chemistry
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Her mother was stolen. What does that mean for her?
Jenna Timmons-Oikawa is the winner of the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Her piece, Wawa Indian, was inspired by the discovery that her mother was taken in the Sixties Scoop. This was a government practice in Canada from…
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R.F. Kuang gets personal in Taipei Story
Communication gets complicated across different languages, time zones and generations. FaceTime and translation apps can only help so much. That's the personal challenge R. F. Kuang drew on in her latest novel Taipei…
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Why Marlon James disappeared
The new novel from Marlon James is based on a rumour … but it’s no rumour that Marlon’s book is one of the year's hottest titles. The Disappearers is an epic Jamaican novel that centres on a group of gay men who were…
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Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
Canadian writer Anne Carson is the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. For today’s podcast, we’re diving into the archives and revisiting one of Anne’s conversations with Eleanor Wachtel on Writers &…
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A novel inspired by the death of a tree
Anita Rau Badami’s new novel, Asha in Her Garden, is her first in over a decade … and it all started with the striking image of a dying tree. On her seventieth birthday, Asha Mohan’s beloved backyard maple tree is cut…
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Girlbossing on an oil rig
Imagine the pressure of being the only woman working on an offshore oil rig. That was the reality for Y.M. Abdel-Magied … and she turned her years in the field into a thrilling novel about oil, power and survival on the…
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