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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

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

Paula Hawkins: Exploring the dark side of the art world in new thriller The Blue Hour

Anne Fleming: Why her latest novel is a gender-bending tale of witchcraft and forbidden love

Eric Chacour: Exploring the power of familial expectations and forbidden love

Rachel Kushner: In Booker Prize finalist Creation Lake, an agent provocateur faces deep questions about how to live

Alan Hollinghurst: Coming of age in Britain and writing through the gay gaze