Bookends with Mattea Roach

Kate Gies: Reclaiming her body after years of medical trauma

Emma Knight: 'Bad' mothers make good stories — and are more true-to-life

Imani Perry: Tracing blue through Black American life

Chris Ware: Inside the sketchbooks of a comics master

Amy Lin: Widowed at 31, she looks for the beauty in grief

Rumaan Alam: How would you spend a billion dollars?

Rachel Robb: Exploring reconciliation and the natural world

Judith Butler: Breaking down why people fear gender

Zoe Whittall: Why heartbreak is a valid form of grief

Adrian Tomine: Answering his readers’ burning questions

Bookends: Highlights from 2024

This holiday edition of Book Ends features highlights from conversations with authors Teresa Wong, Casey McQuiston, Eric Chacour, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Matt Haig. The discussion centers on the intersection of personal identity, family history, and the creative process. Teresa Wong explores her parents' escape from Ch...

Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

Bryan Lee O’Malley: 20 years of Scott Pilgrim

Nita Prose: The Maid series returns with a Christmas twist

Charles Burns: Why the comics icon keeps returning to teenage angst

Pasha Malla: Parodying a wellness resort with horror and humour

Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words

Nalo Hopkinson: How Caribbean folktales inspired her fantastical novel, Blackheart Man

Leslie Jamison: Capturing Peggy Guggenheim in fiction and honouring a friend's dream

Teresa Wong: Illustrating her family's past — in all its ordinary and epic moments