All Interviews

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  The End of Us: E.L. Doctorow’s Last Warning

  Let's talk about how the whole scope of E.L. Doctorow's work has earned him the right to a hearing for his apocalyptic, Cassandra-like warning.

  Ron RosenbaumJul 26, 2015

  • Fiction

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  A Love Letter to Los Angeles

  Wendy C. Ortiz on living in East Hollywood, quitting her day job to write, and an LA that doesn’t conform to TV tropes.

  Nicole AntonioJul 24, 2015
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  The Falling Apartness of Things

  NoViolet Bulawayo interview with David Palumbo-Liu.

  David Palumbo-LiuJul 20, 2015

  • Fiction

• Old Guys Have More Fun

  Jerry Stahl on fatherhood, his literary career, toxicity in everyday life, and what the odds might be for survival.

  David BreithauptJul 15, 2015

  • Memoir & Essay

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  A New Spirit in Israeli Culture

  Tom Teicholz interviews Yair Assulin.

  Tom TeicholzJul 13, 2015

  • Around the World

• The Anthropoid Condition

  An interview with John Durham Peters: a wide-ranging intellectual with a graceful prose style, a talent for synthesis, and a way with aphorisms.

  Brían HanrahanJul 10, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Where Criticism Is Counterrevolutionary: Tania Bruguera on Cuba and the Fight for Free Speech

  An exclusive interview with Tania Bruguera following the Havana Biennial exhibition of art.

  Tom ZoellnerJul 8, 2015

  • Around the World

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  Bloody Artistry

  Mario Vargas Llosa on loving bullfighting as a dance, a sport, and an artistic influence.

  Bill HillmannJul 7, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

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  Charleston’s Psychic Landscape: A Conversation with Kwame Dawes

  Kwame Dawes on the Charleston massacre, the role of poetry during times of tragedy, and the psychic landscape of South Carolina.

  DéLana R.A. DameronJul 7, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

  • Poetry

• A Religion of the Text

  To observe the dietary laws of a religion is fundamentalism, but so too is staying off the grid, so too is attempting to remain illegible to commercial …

  Ben BushJul 4, 2015

  • Fiction

• Social Acceleration and the Need for Speed

  An interview with Hartmut Rosa, author of "Alienation and Acceleration."

  Claudio GalloJun 28, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  An Illusion of Everything Making Sense

  A conversation between publisher Chris Kraus and science fiction author Mark Von Schlegell.

  Jun 27, 2015

  • SF

• The Page Unturned

  Marcia Aldrich interviews Jill Talbot.

  Marcia AldrichJun 27, 2015

  • Memoir & Essay

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  Nina Simone in the New Millennium

  Janice Littlejohn interviews Liz Garbus about her new Nina Simone documentary.

  Janice Rhoshalle LittlejohnJun 26, 2015

  • Film

  • Music

• Treasure Hunting: Maggie Mertens Interviews Huan Hsu

  Instead of a straightforward treasure hunt, Hsu found a family as broken apart by war and complex Chinese history as the porcelain shards he discovered.

  Maggie MertensJun 26, 2015

  • Memoir & Essay

• Live Through This: A Pioneering Rock Critic Looks Back with Love and Sorrow on the 1960s

  Rock critic Richard Goldstein on embracing pop culture, opening music writing to women, and the complicated legacy of the '60s.

  Evelyn McDonnellJun 25, 2015

  • Music