Blackademic Lives Matter: An Interview with Lavelle Porter
Patricia A. Matthew interviews Lavelle Porter about his recent book, "The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual."
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American Small-Business Picaresque: A Conversation with Anna Cox
Anna Cox discusses her debut novel about life in a small Ohio town after the pencil factory explodes.
Histories of Violence: The Inherited Memory of Art
Adrian Parr speaks with Mark Bradford, an award-winning Los Angeles–based contemporary artist.
Finding My Way: A Conversation with Alden Jones
Dinah Lenney talks with Alden Jones about her latest book, “The Wanting Was a Wilderness.”
A Trans Boy Dreams of a Gender-Fluid World: A Conversation with Lexie Bean
A YA author discusses her new novel about transgender youth and social marginalization.
Piracy and Power: A Conversation with Steven Johnson
Benedict Cosgrove interviews Steven Johnson, the author of “Enemy of All Mankind.”
Now Is the Time: A Conversation with David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Désirée Zamorano interviews David Heska Wanbli Weiden about his new book, “Winter Counts.”
Truth-Maps: A Conversation with Enrique Martínez Celaya
A modern Renaissance man on his poetry, his paintings, and his views of scientific objectivity.
Gaia Versus the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Dorion Sagan
A celebrated ecological philosopher discusses climate change, the coronavirus, and the powers of the biosphere.
Objectifying and Strange: Dinah Lenney interviews Jessica Gross
Dinah Lenney talks to Jessica Gross about her debut novel, “Hysteria.”
Upending the Travelogue: A Conversation with Sophy Roberts
Sophy Roberts goes on an untraditional quest.
Bluesy Way of Life: A Conversation with Synnika Lofton
Poetic collaborators discuss their new collection of verse, “American Reverie.”
Immigration, Masculinity, Punk Rock: A Conversation with Phuc Tran
A Vietnamese American memoirist on the pressures of assimilation, toxic masculinity, and anti-Black racism.
Refugee Tales: A Conversation with Juan Pablo Villalobos
Paulo Lemos Horta talks to writer Juan Pablo Villalobos about his latest book, "The Other Side."
Fifteenth-Century Cher: A Conversation with Robert Glück on “Margery Kempe”
Mairead Case talks to Robert Glück about his book "Margery Kempe," recently republished by NYRB Classics with an introduction by Colm Tóibín.
English Has Its Own Music: A Conversation with Ottilie Mulzet
Ottilie Mulzet, translator of Szilárd Borbély and László Krasznahorkai, on translation as a way of life.
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