Aaron Shulman is a freelance journalist who has written for The New Republic, The American Scholar, and The Awl, among other publications. A former Fulbright scholar in Guatemala, he spent a few years in Spain, and now lives in Los Angeles.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Letters from Prison: A Conversation with Mike Africa Jr.
A discussion of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El’s “Pen Pal: Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row.”...
A Fate Worse Than Gravity: A Conversation with Ellen O’Connell Whittet
A new memoir about the dangers of dance and love in the age of #MeToo....
Unwrapping Longing: A Conversation with Neda Disney
Aaron Shulman speaks to Neda Disney about her debut novel, “Planting Wolves.”...
An American Boy and His Jamaican Nanny: A Conversation with Ross Kenneth Urken
Aaron Shulman speaks to Ross Kenneth Urken about “Another Mother,” his memoir about life with the Jamaican woman who raised him and her life outside of him....
Following Something Beautiful: An Interview with Courtney Maum
Aaron Shulman interviews Courtney Maum about her third novel, “Costalegre,” probing the intersection of art, borders, and the self....
Rooting Out the Dirt: A Conversation with Ryan Jacobs
Aaron Shulman interviews a crime reporter who wrote a book about truffles....
Combining the Personal with the Critical: An Interview with Alice Bolin
A new collection of essays about the American West, Britney Spears, female friendships, and reality TV, among other things....
Literature and Life: An Interview with Soledad Fox Maura
A biography of perhaps the most interesting man in the (20th-century) world....
The Magnetism of the Unknown: An Interview with Beverly Lowry
Aaron Shulman interviews true crime author Beverly Lowry about her latest book, “Who Killed These Girls? Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders.”...
Wood Boy Dog Fish: An Interview with Sean Cawelti of Rogue Artists Ensemble
TO CALL WOOD BOY DOG FISH — a production of the Rogue Artists Ensemble that recently had a run at the Bootleg ...
Reconciliation Acts
An interview with Jan Herman, longtime journalist and author of "The Z Collection."...
Chasing the White Whale of Big Science
An Interview with Jeremy N. Smith...
Unnerved and a Bit Delirious
“I tried to send my book to agents, but it’s not built for that world.”...
Chasing the Origins of Gonzo in South America
An Interview with Brian Kevin...
More than a Sport: What the World Cup Means to Spain
What the World Cup means to Spain...
Performative Marriages and the American Dream: On “The Marriage Act”
IT SOUNDS like the premise of a subversive romantic comedy that would probably never get made: Soon after 9/11, a ...
Fire On the Mountain: An Interview with Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon
It’s fire season in Montana in Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s debut novel, Nothing....
Migrant Trainhoppers on the Rails Through Hell
A tour-de-force overlooked by the year’s best-of lists deserves to be recognized....
Edward Hopper as Home and Homesickness
Hopper's reception abroad...
The Fifty Days of the Hotel Madrid
AFTER DARK ON OCTOBER 15, 2011, as the worldwide "United For Global Change" march drew to a close in Spain, a ...
Letter From Guatemala
"Why?" is a question that hounds anyone trying to make sense of the violence against women in Guatemala....
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