Interviews

Raven Leilani

On writing black interiority
Rizvana Bradley

Jenny Xie

On memory and migration
Maggie Millner

Vivian Gornick

The acclaimed essayist looks back on her career
Meghan O’Rourke

Olga Tokarczuk

The Nobel laureate on her new novel
Rhian Sasseen
and
Jennifer Croft

Stacey D'Erasmo

The novelist on our tendency to elide the truth
Catherine Barnett

Geoff Dyer

The essayist on not having a career
James Surowiecki

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Interviews

Portrait of Paul Sabin.

Who Killed Big Government? A Historian's Surprising Take.

A conversation about the secret history of American liberalism
Paul Sabin
and
James Surowiecki
November 1, 2021
Photo of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on the Politics of Theater

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
and
Marc Robinson
September 20, 2021
Photos of Maggie Nelson and Simone White

Maggie Nelson and Simone White on Sexual Taboos

Simone White
and
Maggie Nelson
September 20, 2021
Portraits of Caleb Smith and Rachel Kushner
Conversations

Discipline and Abolish

Writing, power, and mass incarceration
Rachel Kushner
and
Caleb Smith
June 28, 2021
Portrait of Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

The Poetry of Attention

The possibilities of perception
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
and
Lacey Jones
June 21, 2021
Illustrated portrait of Elif Batuman and Ama Codjoe
Conversations

A Failed Book Club

How does one decide when to give up and stop reading?
Elif Batuman
and
Ama Codjoe
June 14, 2021
Graphic of basketball players Julius Randle and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Conversations

Game Is Life

Basketball, poetry, and the NBA playoffs
Kaveh Akbar,
Vivian Lee,
Ben Purkert,
and
Nabila Lovelace
May 27, 2021
James Merrill in a kitchen
TYR Talks

James Merrill's Letters and Legacy

A conversation about the renowned poet's enduring influence
May 21, 2021
Photo of Alexander Chee; photo of Julia Cho; photo of Susan Choi; photo of Cathy Park Hong
Conversations

Finding a Literary Inheritance

Four Korean American writers on jeong and the elusiveness of home
Alexander Chee,
Julia Cho,
Susan Choi,
and
Cathy Park Hong
December 1, 2020
Photo of Aleshea Harris on left; photo of Douglas Kearney on right
Conversations

Signal and Noise

A dialogue on presencing Blackness
Aleshea Harris
and
Douglas Kearney
December 1, 2020