Interviews

Shakespeare and Company Interviews

Miriam Toews

The author of A Truce That Is Not Peace on how writing resembles loss
Adam Biles
Portrait of Miriam Toews on a muted gold-and-yellow background split diagonally
Interviews

Anthony Vahni Capildeo

The poet on the power of a lyric sequence
Interviews

Rachel Cusk

The novelist on the “feminine non-state of non-being”
Merve Emre
Interviews

Miranda July

The novelist on the difference between emotional honesty and autobiography
Meghan O’Rourke
Interviews

Michael Wolff

Why Trump's Epstein problem won't go away
James Surowiecki
Interviews

László Krasznahorkai

The Nobel laureate insists on the reality of the present
Hari Kunzru

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Interviews

Photo of Bhanu Kapil on left; photo of Jonah Mixon-Webster on right
Conversations

The Body in Verse

A dialogue on literary somatics
Bhanu Kapil
and
Jonah Mixon-Webster
December 1, 2020
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Conversations

The Merits of Imperfection

Why literature’s best is usually deeply flawed
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
and
Yiyun Li
December 1, 2020
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Conversations

The Limits of Empathy

Two writers on the ethics of pen and paper
Namwali Serpell
and
Maria Tumarkin
December 1, 2020
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Interviews

Dan Chiasson on the Poetry of Reading and the Darkness of Endless Summer

How do you turn lived experience into words?
Maggie Millner
September 18, 2020
Key Blue, by Joseph Schillinger, 1934
Interviews

Cathy Park Hong on Minor Feelings

The major weight of minor feelings
Meghan O’Rourke
June 1, 2020
A portrait of Aysegül Savas
Interviews

Aysegül Savas on Being Edited

The dangers and glories of revision
Meghan O’Rourke
April 13, 2020
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Interviews

Amy Herzog and Brenda Shaughnessy

Two writers on art and motherhood
Meghan O’Rourke
April 1, 2020
A portrait of poet Robyn schiff
Interviews

Robyn Schiff on Going Long

Precise poems in challenging times
Maggie Millner
March 3, 2020
Portrait of Craig Fehrman
Interviews

Craig Fehrman on Presidential Prose

Writings from Washington to Trump
Andrew Heisel
February 19, 2020
Portrait of Daniel Poppick
Interviews

Daniel Poppick on End Times

Art's amiable cruelty
Maggie Millner
February 12, 2020