Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi shares more about the speculative thriller The Centre, summoning the courage and will to write a novel, and exploring love, loneliness, and the darker underside of language learning in her debut.

Tanaz Bhathena shares more about her YA Fantasy Of Light and Shadow, her research process into the world of Indian banditry, and the inspiring curiosity of young adult readers.

Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché share more about their upcoming novel Prophet, the lockdown conversations that informed the book, and taking on the concept of weaponized nostalgia while writing a love letter to genre fiction.

Alejandro Varela discusses The People Who Report More Stress, his new collection of interconnected short stories that examines the impact of stress and anxiety on those living on the margins and the ways that—in a society defined by hierarchies—success does not translate to health and happiness.

Author Celia Bell spoke with us about her debut The Disenchantment, centering the complexities of life for historic women and queer people, and keeping bees as a form of creativity.

Mia Tsai discusses her debut Bitter Medicine, escaping the real world through speculative fiction, and how her classical music studies came in handy while researching for the book.

Daniel Nayeri talks about his next book The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams, the similarities between our world and the world of the Silk Road, and dealing with creative distraction.

Dr. Ricardo Nuila’s nonfiction debut follows the lives of five uninsured Houstonians who seek care at Ben Taub, the county hospital where he has worked for over a decade.

Thomas C. Gannon shares more about his upcoming book Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir, why he never thought of the work as a memoir, and the impossibility of writing about birds without being political.