Interview
The writer on writing about secrets, food as love language, and releasing a debut novel during a pandemic.
The writer on writing about secrets, food as love language, and releasing a debut novel during a pandemic.
On writing mentally ill characters with nuance and how our identities shape the power relationships of our most intimate interactions.
The writer on writing about urban legends, gay life on the reservation, and why he created a happy ghost.
The debut novelist on the mercurial desires of teenage girls, the musicality of language, and embracing the digressive quality of the human mind.
The performance artist aka Dynasty Handbag recounts her journey from the San Francisco DIY scene to New York’s avant-garde theater world and ultimately to Hollywood.
The poet on his new collection, language as resistance, research as a starting point, and how the intimate suggests the epic.
The writer on his new book about the toll debt took on his life and the universal reality of his experience.
An artist’s book investigates domestication and its limits.
Sculpture, video, and performance that queers US Southwest settler colonial history with plants and pilgrimages.
The sound artists discuss their recent site-specific projects and the revolutionary potential of reclaiming public space through sound.
On writing secondhand trauma, cycles of behavior, and the loneliness of internalized homophobia.
The writer on her new poetry collection, rearranging the nervous system, and a fact’s capacity to contain its own strangeness.
After researching climate change and survival psychology for her novel Weather, Offill asks if we might imagine a different way to live.
The artist talks about subcultures, collecting, and collaboration.
An artist working with communities around rivers.
The debut writer on complex characters, love stories, and how we code each other.
From epics to lyrics, Rowan Ricardo Phillips considers poetry’s reckoning with history and how writing will reflect our current crisis for future generations.
The poet on her new collection and writing poems about the system in an embodied, intuitive way.
Integrating psychology and spirituality with choreographic practice.
Using the visual seduction of installation and video to address systemic violence.
