Bookends with Mattea Roach
When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big questions to ponder and new books to read.
Latest Episode
What is extreme caretaking? (08.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- R.F. Kuang raises a little hell 05.10.2025
- What would it take to become the first Cherokee astronaut? 28.09.2025
- What happens to fiction in times of war? 21.09.2025
- Why this comics legend is just getting started 17.09.2025
- Who was the woman Kafka loved? 14.09.2025
- Reliving the soundtrack of the 2000s 10.09.2025
- Why this Pulitzer Prize winner is done with writing books 07.09.2025
- Bookends Bonus: Death, sex, money … and podcasting? 03.09.2025
- Bookends Highlights: Why we never shut up about our literary prizes 31.08.2025
- Bookends Bonus: What do you see in the mirror? 24.08.2025
- Bookends Bonus: Redefining what counts as a Canadian literary classic from Commotion 17.08.2025
- Bernardine Evaristo: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel 10.08.2025
- Bookends Highlights: The language of comics with 5 masters of the craft 20.07.2025
- Bookends Bonus: Cartoonist and writer Gabrielle Drolet on Q with Tom Power 15.07.2025
- 3 writers on finding their voices — and the power of personal stories 22.06.2025
- What makes Montreal a transgender city? 18.06.2025
- Weaving a story of family trauma and celebrating the beauty in survival 15.06.2025
- For Indigenous players, ice hockey is a ceremony of its own 11.06.2025
- Taylor Jenkins Reid is among the stars — on and off the page 08.06.2025
- Alison Bechdel on making money and seeing Fun Home in a new light 04.06.2025
