Interview

A novel that possesses the spirit of an oral history and the imaginative possibility of a human tiger tail.

Wainwright talks about his tenth studio album, the “anemic” state of pop lyrics, and why Leonard Cohen—not Bob Dylan—should have won the Nobel Prize.

Traumatizing the photographic image.

Accessing the interiority of sounds.

How life transitions inspire literature and what it means to build South Asian writing community.

On process, inspiration, and the psychoanalytic underpinnings of The Superrationals.

Reconstructing a family history in video and collage.

If When Harry Met Sally was a lesbian rom-com novel, this would be it.

Writing from Palestine about trauma and the complacency of language.

Baum’s work unearths and explores the incidental poetry of UFO sightings, dog-eared paperbacks, and obsolete artifacts like card catalogs.

The poet on her new book, maps as bodily marks, falling apart, and putting the pieces back together.

The artist’s new graphic novel delves deeper into his mythic Moundverse, where gentle plant–animal vessels are protected by TorpedoBoy and hounded by tofu-eating enemies.

An outdoor sculpture project weathers the seasons.

The archivist and writer’s recently translated triptych fuses autofiction, essay, and criticism to study the complex lives of three female artists in the public eye.

Shaping space and architecture.

Lazard’s spare, conceptual works examine the political dimensions of illness and disability and the pleasures of being with and caring for one another.

A memoir that challenges stereotypes, celebrates dance, and reflects on loss.

On his debut film, The Inheritance, which weaves together histories of the MOVE organization, the Black Arts Movement, and his own time in a Black Marxist collective.

How a collection of funny stories became a memoir about coming out, partying hard, and committing to the kid’s menu.

A museum exhibition of interdisciplinary work by an Indigenous woman artist.