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All of Life: An Interview with Joe Dunthorne
“Writing poetry is pretty constant for me. It sometimes feels like a semiconscious biological process. Like burping.”
Jul 25
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Against Slop: An Interview with Meghan O’Gieblyn
“It makes me sad to think about a young person who might never cultivate the process of self-discovery that takes place in writing, which is inseparable…
Jul 12
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‘Extraordinarily Profitable Fiduciary Rapport’: An Interview with Charlie Lee
“John Gregory Dunne thought about money in almost metaphysical terms, as if it made up the very structure and texture of reality.”
Jul 4
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The New York Review of Books
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Spare Me the Hedgehoggery: An Interview with Clare Bucknell
“I’m not fond of efforts to see ourselves reflected in places where we aren’t: better, I think, to let the past be the past in all its irreducible…
Jun 27
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The New York Review of Books
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Figuring: An Interview with Lovia Gyarkye
“I’m focused on work that has real stakes and ideas that might feel scary to articulate. I think there’s freedom in that risk.”
Jun 20
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The New York Review of Books
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The Moviegoer: An Interview with Dennis Lim
“When we keep saying cinema is dead or dying, we lose sight of what we have actually lost and what might still be possible, even as so much about the…
Jun 13
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The New York Review of Books
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The Innocents Abroad: An Interview with Suzy Hansen
“I went a different way in life after college than Hegseth did, but I know what kind of worldview, and what kind of inferiority complex, that upbringing…
Jun 6
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The New York Review of Books
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The Future of Abortion Rights: An Interview with Amy Littlefield
“As long as I’ve been covering abortion access, it has been defined by wealth and geography.”
May 23
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The New York Review of Books
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‘I Couldn’t Have Done It Without You’: An Interview with Frances Wilson
“I consciously write bespoke biographies, cutting my cloth to fit my subject. It’s a form of homage.”
May 9
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The New York Review of Books
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Mystery Brain: An Interview with Daniel Lefferts
“I tend to be interested in subjects that confound me or strike me as enticingly improbable—I guess you could call them mysteries.”
May 2
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The New York Review of Books
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After the Mystics: An Interview with Lauren Kane
“There’s nothing quite like the captivating feeling of coming upon, say, a faded relief on a stone wall in some unassuming place, and finding that the…
Apr 18
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The New York Review of Books
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A Widening Gulf: An Interview with Adam Hanieh
“It would be a mistake to treat the Gulf as politically homogeneous.”
Apr 11
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The New York Review of Books
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