Bookends with Mattea Roach

Bookends Bonus: Cartoonist and writer Gabrielle Drolet on Q with Tom Power

3 writers on finding their voices — and the power of personal stories

Personal memoirs serve as powerful tools for confronting silenced histories, challenging systemic erasure, and building bridges across profound differences. Tanya Talaga, Morgan Campbell, and Amal Elsana Alh'jooj demonstrate how individual family stories act as catalysts for broader social change. Talaga emphasizes the...

What makes Montreal a transgender city?

Weaving a story of family trauma and celebrating the beauty in survival

For Indigenous players, ice hockey is a ceremony of its own

Taylor Jenkins Reid is among the stars — on and off the page

Alison Bechdel on making money and seeing Fun Home in a new light

David A. Robertson puts stories at the heart of reconciliation

An opera singer gives voice to the Grenadian revolution

When young men murder, what can we learn?

Music, sex and finding the soundtrack to queer joy

Weightlifting made Casey Johnston stronger — in muscle and mind

Fans asked for another happy ending — Carley Fortune delivered

Bookends Introduces | Understood: Who Broke the Internet

Ocean Vuong finds beauty in a fast food shift

Ocean Vuong’s novel The Emperor of Gladness examines the equalizing power of death and the realities of life in a declining American city. Drawing on a Hamlet quote, the narrative centers on the inevitable dissolution of social borders, using Hartford, Connecticut, as a backdrop for a generation caught between childhoo...

Writing about catastrophe gives Madeleine Thien courage

Fighting for an unlawful love in Uganda

NOT CLICKBAIT! She stole her dead twin sister’s identity!?

What if your dreams could land you in jail?

Meet the winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize