The Monthly Digest: June 2017

Each month LARB’s contributors and editors conduct riveting, revealing conversations with cultural figures from around the world. In May we featured interviews with the poets Almog Behar, who writes both in Hebrew and Arabic, and Adam Zagajewski, a giant of Polish (and world) literature; comics artists Yumi Sakugawa and Gabrielle Bell; major novelists George Saunders and Tom McCarthy (the latter as part of Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series), as well as debut novelist B. G. Firmani; memoirist  Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich and Douglas Preston, author of The Lost City of the Monkey God; eminent literary scholar Jonathan Culler; and — in the second installment of Scott Timberg’s series “All the Poets (Musicians on Writing)” — Rhiannon Giddens, Appalachian and Piedmont fiddle-and-banjo revivalist and founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. — LARB Editorial