2024 was a standout year for INTERLOCUTOR, with exceptional coverage of figures from many creative fields, along with an editorial shift towards critical reviews and a focus on people who have been censored or marginalized due to their social and political stances.

Check out the list below for links to some of this year’s highlights, and special thanks for all the hard work and excellent subject curation from our contributors.

Why aja monet's poems do what they do - by Logan Royce Beitmen

Poet, writer, lyricist, & community organizer aja monet speaks about her Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for her debut when the poems do what they do, those who’ve inspired her, what moves her to action, & why literature liberates

Also listen to our podcast version of this interview

The persuasive intuitions of ANNE CARSON - by Isabelle Sakelaris

Poet, essayist, professor of Classics, and translator Anne Carson discusses her new book of poetic prose pieces and images, Wrong Norma

KAREN FINLEY will not be redacted - by Logan Royce Beitmen

Performance artist, poet, educator, and musician Karen Finley talks about her long career of disrupting the delicate sensibilities of senators, provoking the patriarchy, and the ways her work is newly resonating in today’s regressive cultural climate

Ben Shattuck discusses THE HISTORY OF SOUND: STORIES - by Nirica Srinivisan

Author Ben Shattuck talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about his new book The History of Sound: Stories, which features a fantastically unique structure: each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story

The Met’s imaginary Indian skies - by Logan Royce Beitmen

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

Didi Jackson's MY INFINITY - by Isabelle Sakelaris

An intensely personal and insightful interview with poet Didi Jackson about her new collection My Infinity, an exploration of joy and sorrow ordered around the work of the Swedish visual artist Hilma af Klint

HOPE BOYKIN'S movements of meaning - by Catherine Tharin

Catherine Tharin in conversation with the prolific dancer, choreographer, educator, director, writer, & speaker Hope Boykin

Jeff VanderMeer's ABSOLUTION - by Nirica Srinivasan

Jeff VanderMeer explores the failure of language, climate change, the fallibility of human institutions, ecstatic visions, and much more in this extensive interview about his new book, Absolution, the fourth installment from his celebrated Southern Reach series

STEAL THIS HOLZER – by Joshua Caleb Weibley

Read Joshua Caleb Weibley’s unflinching review of the confusing, problematic, and underwhelming exhibition Jenny Holzer: Light Line at NYC's Guggenheim Museum

From the Frontlines of Gaza to the Runways of New York: An interview with MERHAN KELLER – by Logan Royce Beitmen

Activist and model Merhan Keller is an outspoken Palestinian rights advocate. In this interview, she discusses her aid work with the Egyptian Red Crescent & how her viewpoints have negatively impacted her career, & she delves into what it means to live a committed life of direct action

DANIELLE SEEWALKER on her cancelled residency over her pro-Palestine activism & the resulting ACLU lawsuit - by Logan Royce Beitmen

Artist Danielle SeeWalker talks about her cancelled residency in Vail, Colorado due to her pro-Palestine activism, and the lawsuit against Vail the ACLU has filed on her behalf

Censored? Shadowbanned? Elizabeth Larison of the NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP Discusses How to Fight Back – by Logan Royce Beitmen

Elizabeth Larison, Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program, talks in-depth with Logan Royce Beitmen about leading initiatives in advising & educating artists on how to address the presentation of controversial works

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