The debut novelist on the mercurial desires of teenage girls, the musicality of language, and embracing the digressive quality of the human mind.

In echoes and splices of “narrative sonic bites,” Douglas sets her experimental novel, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread, to the dub pulse of Rasta tradition.

An embarrassing incident at the Kremlin (from 2015? was it 2016?): in which women invited to an International Woman’s Day photo with Mr. Vladimir Putin arrive in high heels, much to the fear of Mr. Putin’s staff who are there to witness several tall women towering over the Russian Federation president.

“I’m a multimedia artist. If it’s not in the museums or history books, then where’s my art history?”

The theater director, filmmaker, and provocateur on The Dance of Reality, his first film in over twenty years.

Novelist Carole Maso unearths the darkness in the dizzying poems of Lucie Brock-Broido, collected in her 1995 book, a seven year project inspired by Emily Dickinson’s Master Letters.

“Making an art work involves the transformation of matter, paper and materials into a process of animation or psychic elevation of material stuff.”

Artist Annette Messager on her titles, the craft of hysteria, and the obliteration of language.

Dear Reader:

I know there has been much speculation on the strange circumstance of my birth, about which many myths have been told.