Genre Explorations

Late May, with June weddings in the offing — this is love’s own sweet season, the time of year when people decide to reread “Pride and Prejudice.” Even though Jane...

Amber Lavigne's 13-year-old daughter had gender dysphoria. At least that was the diagnosis the teen came up with; how better to explain her persistent anxiety and depression? When she went...

The book is called "How to Know a Person," and it's a bestseller written by New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks. The book, which offers tips to become a...

Thanks to streaming services, children never have to wait until their favourite television programme comes on. Instead, there are millions of hours of entertainment, just a click away. As I...

Dan Wriggins leads the band Friendship — their most recent album Love The Stranger, was our Album Of The Week when it came out — and he puts out music...

The Sunday Times Bestseller List is the oldest and most influential book sales chart in the UK, and the one that every author wants to be on. The listings are...

Flannery O’Connor was an inveterate rewriter, working, reworking, and deleting episodes from her stories and novels. Her archives, collected at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, bulge with deleted...

Catfish Rolling, the debut young-adult novel by Clara Kumagai, has won book of the year at the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards. The novel, which is situated between modern-day Japan...

Rob Taylor (left) and his latest poetry collection, Weather. Image supplied. In the middle of a run, Rob Taylor had an idea for a poem.  As he weaved through cars...

First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work,...