Discover MFA Programs in Art and Writing
Controlled Chaos: Howardena Pindell Interviewed by Jessica Lanay
“All the pieces … are an attempt to unite my mind again, to mend the rupture.”—Howardena Pindell
Feeling Changed: Rita Bullwinkel Interviewed by Lincoln Michel
“I love titles that sound good in the mouth.”
The Collective Body: Maria José Arjona Interviewed by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
Performance as a poetry of long duration.
A political exhibition wrestles with its complicity.
The use and abuse of art in an imperfect world.
A long-lost recording resurfaces.
What literature can (and can’t) tell us about America’s criminal justice system.
Featuring interviews with John Giorno, Lidia Yuknavitch, Iman Issa, Eric Baudelaire, Ieva Misevičiūtė, Daniel Borzutzky, and more.
Featuring interviews with Amit Dutta, Lisa Sanditz, Nina Katchadourian, Anoka Faruqee, Michelle Grabner, Suzanne Bocanegra, Adrienne Truscott, Marcus Steinweg, Mike Wallace, and Lucy Ives.
Featuring interviews with Milford Graves, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Meredith Monk, Jim Hodges, Lucy Dodd, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jlin, Cate Giordano, Don Mee Choi, Christian Hawkey, and Friederike Mayröcker.
Featuring interviews with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten, Sergio De La Pava, Nina Hoss, Barbara Hammer, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Ourahmane, Kaneza Schaal, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, and Summer Wheat.
New Books
The publications and authors worth highlighting.
The celebrated Argentine novelist on writing about writers, avoiding labels, and why critics shouldn’t write fiction.
Lynne Tillman’s first novel in twelve years, Men and Apparitions, follows a narrator ruminating on his own subject position: Ezekiel “Zeke” Stark, a cultural anthropologist, conducts a study of men’s reactions to and impressions of the changing nature of masculinity in America today.
The Invention of Ana novelist on the manipulations of narrative, being submerged by fiction, and the protagonist as STD.
The Restless Souls novelist on reading his reviews, working as a medical equipment tester, and writing responsibly about war and trauma.
Testosterone is the hormone that is the basis of patriarchy. So if you wanna get really deep, it’s like, Do I want to participate in that? I am totally a feminist and, as much as men might not feel empowered, they are in a more powerful position than someone with a vagina, or someone who is feminine or a woman. So what does that mean for me?
Becca Blackwell