Brooklyn-based musician Gabriel Birnbaum talks about his new record, Patron Saint of Tireless Losers, along with his developing professional focus on therapy & improving mental health for musicians
Silence as an architect of experience in THE HEARING TEST
Nirica Srinivasan reviews Eliza Barry Callahan’s novel The Hearing Test
HOPE BOYKIN'S movements of meaning
Catherine Tharin in conversation with the prolific dancer, choreographer, educator, director, writer, & speaker Hope Boykin
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Lara Aburamadan
Independent Palestinian visual artist & journalist Lara Aburamadan discusses her aim to artistically portray images of Gaza that show its people's everyday life & culture
Gemma Rolls-Bentley discusses QUEER ART: FROM CANVAS TO CLUB, AND THE SPACES BETWEEN
Gemma Rolls-Bentley talks about her new book Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between & the ways it considers queer art within the context of the current moment
Memory, identity, & synchronicities: Elisa Gabbert's ANY PERSON IS THE ONLY SELF
Writer, poet, and essayist Elisa Gabbert talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about her new essay collection Any Person Is the Only Self
A conversation with choreographer & performer JOHN SCOTT
Irish choreographer, performer, & artistic director John Scott talks with Catherine Tharin about his career & his new show Heroes, a journey of music and movement, playing at NYC’s La Mama Theatre from May 30 through June 2
Pushing against the limits of possibility: R.O. KWON discusses EXHIBIT
In a perceptive and revelatory interview with Nirica Srinivasan, author R.O. Kwon explores the intricacies of her newly released novel, Exhibit
ANABELLA LENZU on movement & motherhood
Dancer, choreographer, scholar, and educator Anabella Lenzu talks with Catherine Tharin about her new project, Listen to Your Mother, at NYC’s La MaMa Theatre from May 16 - 19
The surreal percussive textures of AMY AILEEN WOOD
Grammy Award-winning drummer and producer Amy Aileen Wood talks about her collaborative & experimental new album, The Heartening, now out on L.A.’s Colorfield Records
The persuasive intuitions of ANNE CARSON
Poet, essayist, professor of Classics, and translator Anne Carson discusses her new book of poetic prose pieces and images, Wrong Norma
MARY JO BANG isn't lost in translation
Isabelle Sakelaris talks with award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang about her recent collection, A Film in Which I Play Everyone
The Met’s imaginary Indian skies
Logan Royce Beitmen reveals some very troubling issues with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibition, Indian Skies, which erases histories, centers whiteness, & asks you to ignore the political images before your eyes
PATRICIA CARR MORGAN'S explorations of memory, loss, & reality
An interview with conceptual artist Patricia Carr Morgan about her wide-ranging work exploring memory, loss, reality, & the impacts of climate change
The tensions between drifting & survival in AMBER CARON'S stories
Amber Caron talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her striking new short story collection Call Up the Waters
The pure abstractions of JERRY MCLAUGHLIN
Isabel Hou talks with Mexico-based artist Jerry McLaughlin about his abstract artworks, which incorporate unusual materials like ash from bog peat and willow fires, his inspiration from architectural elements & surfaces in central Mexico, & more
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Lande Yoosuf
Lande Yoosuf is a writer, director, and producer. In this interview, she discusses her unusual approach of turning her short film, Second Generation Wedding, into a full-length screenplay, then adapting that screenplay into her novel, Ko-Foe: The Story of a Nigerian, Muslim Family in the New York Diaspora
The punk chimera of CLUB VIDEO
Sylvea Suydam reports on the happenings at Brooklyn’s CLUB VIDEO, a quarterly video showcase featuring short-form experimental comedy & more from independent creators
Why CHRISTOPHER BREAN MURRAY lies to tell truths
Poet Christopher Brean Murray talks about his collection, Black Observatory, & he discusses his intuitive methods of fabrication & questioning to discover truths in his works
Novelist LYDIA KIESLING talks about class, power, politics, & desire
Author Lydia Kiesling talks about the elements of class, power, politics, & desire in her new novel Mobility