For thirty-three years, Eleanor Wachtel hosted CBC’s Writers & Company. Each week, her hour-long conversations—generous, probing, serious, illuminating—opened windows from every corner in Canada into the worlds of artists, writers, photographers and filmmakers, among them Carol Shields, Mordecai Richler, . . .
In another possible life, the life of my mother, I travel from country to country. When I finally settle down, buy a home, it is in Vancouver at the foot of a mountain. At night, I can get in my . . .
My mother’s favourite book was the Chinese classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as The Story of the Stone, also known as A Dream of Red Mansions. This was the only work of fiction . . .
*Note: In this 2013 interview, Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses a book called Chronicle of an Indomitable Daughter which was later published as This Mournable Body, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
In 1988, at the age of twenty-eight, Tsitsi Dangarembga published . . .
