All Interviews

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  The Intervention Conversation: The Movement of Black Lives Matter

  An interview with Patrisse Cullors, the founder of Dignity and Power Now and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter.

  Justin CampbellAug 12, 2015

  • Politics

• Three Questions for Luis Alberto Urrea Regarding his New Poetry Collection, “The Tijuana Book of the Dead”

  Luis Alberto Urrea brings us poetry for the people.

  Daniel A. OlivasAug 10, 2015

  • Poetry

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  Murder Is Revelatory

  Desiree Zamorano talks to Steph Cha about her new novel.

  Désirée ZamoranoAug 10, 2015
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  Reading Fashion

  "Is fashion something that, you think, needs to be read?"

  Sarah MesleAug 9, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

• A Life in Waves

  William Finnegan discusses his life as a surfer, and the valuable lessons he has gained from his travels.

  Will StephensonJul 29, 2015

  • Memoir & Essay

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  No Civil War Reenactments Were Injured in the Writing of This Novel

  Inherited institutional racism allows you to say you are merely upholding tradition. We become like this ant colony, where no one person stole the picnic.

  Ben BushJul 27, 2015

  • Fiction

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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