Amber Caron is the author of the story collection Call Up the Waters (Milkweed Editions) and the recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, Southwest Review’s McGinnis-Ritchie Award for fiction, […]
Lande Yoosuf is a writer, director, and producer with over 12 years of production development and casting experience and has worked with several networks, including MTV, NBC, WEtv, truTV, Bravo, and others. Her short film, Privilege Unhinged, […]
Christopher Brean Murray’s book, Black Observatory (Milkweed Editions), was chosen by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2022 Jake Adam York Prize. It was listed by The New York Public Library as one […]
Photo by Erica J Mitchell Lydia Kiesling is a novelist and culture writer. Her first novel, The Golden State, was a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree and a finalist for the VCU […]
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, whom Publishers Weekly calls an “American literary treasure,” is the author of twenty-nine books of fiction, essays, and poetry, including the celebrated novels Disturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn, a finalist […]
A full recording of our recent online edition interview between poet, lyricist, writer, and community organizer aja monet and Logan Royce Beitmen […]
Born in Chicago, Karen Finley received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Working in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance, public art, visual art, entertainment, television and film, memorials, music, […]
Photo by Dervon Dixon aja monet is a poet, lyricist, writer, and community organizer from Brooklyn, now based in Los Angeles. Her debut studio album, when the poems do what they do, was released in […]
Sean Michaels is a novelist, short story writer, and critic. He is the founder of pioneering music blog, Said The Gramophone. His debut novel, Us Conductors, received the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His second novel, […]
An interview with leading AI researcher, author, and TED speaker Blaise Agüera y Arcas about his new book, Who Are We Now? […]
(Description courtesy Copper Canyon Press): In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. The result is West: A Translation—an unflinching hybrid […]
By Nirica Srinivasan “I will always feel like an outsider wherever I am,” Jhumpa Lahiri told HBR in 2022. This sentiment is clear in her early work, including Interpreter of Maladies (which won the […]
An in-depth discussion with author/musician Harper Simon about his ambitious new multimedia project, Meditations on Crime, comprised of years-long collaborations with many high-profile musicians, artists, and writers […]
A young servant girl runs away one moonlit night into the unforgiving winter wilderness. She carries little with her—a pair of boots she stole from a dead man, a few meager supplies gathered from […]
A sense of inevitability hangs heavy over Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood, a fitting mood for a novel that takes its name and inspiration from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Birnam Wood is a novel about the future, […]
Photo by Liesa Cole Gabrielle Bates is the author of the poetry collection Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), recommended by the New York Times Book Review and named by the Chicago Review of Books […]
A conversation with singer, songwriter, writer, and director Adele Bertei about Twist: An American Girl, her new memoir covering her troubled childhood in 1960s and 1970s Cleveland, and her often risky but also sometimes jubilant […]
The creator of the band the Bloods—the first out, queer, all-women-rock band—Adele Bertei has made a career as a singer, songwriter, writer, and director. Her resume, which spans decades and disciplines, is a who’s […]
Photo by Jesse Winter Alice Fulton is the author of ten books. Her honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, the Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, and an American Academy of Arts […]
Satanism is too often misunderstood as a religion that makes blood sacrifices to an evil, horned Prince of Darkness. In reality, modern Satanists are nonviolent and nontheistic, and consider the Devil to be a meaningful […]
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