Interviews

AI and the Future of Writing

A roundtable of authors discuss the ramifications for art—and life.

Rachel Cusk

The novelist on the “feminine non-state of non-being”

Raven Leilani

On writing black interiority

Miranda July

The novelist on the difference between emotional honesty and autobiography

László Krasznahorkai

The Nobel laureate insists on the reality of the present

Arundhati Roy

The author on how making sense of violence made her a writer

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Conversations

Game Is Life

Basketball, poetry, and the NBA playoffs
May 27, 2021
TYR Talks

James Merrill's Letters and Legacy

A conversation about the renowned poet's enduring influence
May 21, 2021
Conversations

Finding a Literary Inheritance

Four Korean American writers on jeong and the elusiveness of home
December 1, 2020
Conversations

Signal and Noise

A dialogue on presencing Blackness
December 1, 2020
Conversations

The Body in Verse

A dialogue on literary somatics
December 1, 2020
Conversations

The Merits of Imperfection

Why literature’s best is usually deeply flawed
December 1, 2020
Conversations

The Limits of Empathy

Two writers on the ethics of pen and paper
December 1, 2020

Dan Chiasson on the Poetry of Reading and the Darkness of Endless Summer

How do you turn lived experience into words?
September 18, 2020

Cathy Park Hong on Minor Feelings

The major weight of minor feelings
June 1, 2020

Aysegül Savas on Being Edited

The dangers and glories of revision
April 13, 2020