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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

Fawn Parker: Blending her own grief with fiction in new novel Hi, It’s Me

Erica McKeen: Using horror and surrealism to explore grief, care and love in new novel Cicada Summer

Jeff VanderMeer: How his blockbuster Southern Reach series reflects our own fight against climate change

V.V. Ganeshananthan: Exploring the complexity of Sri Lanka's civil war in her prize-winning novel, Brotherless Night

Corinna Chong: Uncovering long buried truths against the backdrop of Alberta's Badlands

Jenny Heijun Wills: Sharing her journey of transracial adoption and self-discovery in her moving essay collection

Matt Haig: A surprise inheritance, a magical island and why he's embracing hope — in fiction and life