Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

From Norse sagas to family sagas — Roy Jacobsen spins a moving tale of life on a Norwegian island
In his new novel, Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen explores crises of faith and family in 1970s America
Myriam Chancy's new novel explores the tragedy of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
In Bewilderment, Richard Powers explores the climate crisis, life in space, and the love of a father and son
Amor Towles takes readers on an all-American road trip in The Lincoln Highway
Brandon Taylor on his southern upbringing, being Black in the Midwest, and talking truthfully about depression
M. Leona Godin on the metaphor and reality of blindness, in literature and in life
Laurent Binet turns the tables on European history in his boldly imagined new book, Civilizations
In China Room, Sunjeev Sahota reimagines a family legend
Rivka Galchen's reimagining of a 17th century witch trial is a story that speaks to our time
Bosnian writer Semezdin Mehmedinović on the trauma of war and the power of love
Eleanor Wachtel is honoured at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montréal
A Tribute to Salman Rushdie
Pierre Jarawan probes Lebanon's troubled past in his affecting new novel, Song for the Missing
Zambian-American novelist Namwali Serpell on death, dreams and the haunting nature of grief in her new novel, The Furrows
Gwendoline Riley's new novel My Phantoms charts the fractured ground between mother and daughter
In her prizewinning fiction, Sigrid Nunez deals with life — and death — with empathy and wit
Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown looks at anti-Asian racism through the eyes of a Hollywood actor
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro on the emotional power of storytelling in a high-tech world
Alex Christofi captures the tortured brilliance of the great Russian writer in Dostoevsky in Love,
In the Field: 30 Years of Writers & Co. A special episode with Khushwant Singh, Mandla Langa, Alexis Wright, and Tayyib Salih
Florian Zeller explores family, memory, love and loss in his Oscar-nominated drama, The Father
Lydia Millet's novel, A Children's Bible, is an imaginative reckoning with climate change
Ben Macintyre tells the fascinating true story of the only woman to become a top Soviet spy
Catherine Lacey imagines a character without race or gender in her latest novel, Pew