Family
A conversation with the author’s mother—the novel’s central inspiration—about dance, desire, and more.
A conversation with the author’s mother—the novel’s central inspiration—about dance, desire, and more.
R. Kikuo Johnson’s third graphic novel is a “meditative and melancholy story that’s nevertheless bristling with energy and dry humor.”
The filmmaker’s latest work is a deeply personal story of family loss in which art-making becomes a tool for repair.
A mother on getting acquainted with her postpartum libido.
A story collection about parenting in a post-apocalyptic world.
Excerpted from the memoir, Negative Space
In this short story, an artist father and his son, an art critic, have a dramatic and telling confrontation at a gallery opening.
“Each time they told me to smile I felt at risk for oblivion, as if it wasn’t me that they were looking at but, rather, some bright reflection of themselves, some aspiration gnarled against their own self-perception.”
The filmmakers question the conventions of documentation with work that seeks transparency and authenticity outside of the fiction–nonfiction dichotomy.
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.
The debut writer on how vignettes became a novel, bodies as objects, and why discomfort is comfortable to read.
The writer on writing about secrets, food as love language, and releasing a debut novel during a pandemic.
On writing secondhand trauma, cycles of behavior, and the loneliness of internalized homophobia.
I like when words fail. It shows we don’t believe / we totally know. Name a plant in a forest // and you think you know it. That name / to a bird or a dog, that sound is a squawk.
A uniquely vile cast of characters, ecological disaster, and a motherless daughter who finds strength in the unexpected.
Mapping personal attachment styles onto art institutions.
The German filmmaker discusses her reductive approach.
The poet’s new collection of essays, Minor Feelings, threads intense friendships, “bad” English, and standup comedy into a meditation on the Asian-American experience.
The writer on creating a legend about her mother, breaking the fourth wall, and Elena Ferrante’s honesty.