Interviews

Folio

AI and the Future of Writing

A roundtable of authors discuss the ramifications for art—and life.
Ayad Akhtar,
Daniel Kehlmann,
and
Meghan O’Rourke
Interviews

Rachel Cusk

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

Raven Leilani

On writing black interiority
Rizvana Bradley
Interviews

Miranda July

The novelist on the difference between emotional honesty and autobiography
Meghan O’Rourke
Interviews

László Krasznahorkai

The Nobel laureate insists on the reality of the present
Hari Kunzru
Shakespeare and Company Interviews

Arundhati Roy

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

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Interviews

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
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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
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Conversations

The Body in Verse

A dialogue on literary somatics
Bhanu Kapil
and
Jonah Mixon-Webster
December 1, 2020
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Conversations

The Merits of Imperfection

Why literature’s best is usually deeply flawed
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
and
Yiyun Li
December 1, 2020
Photo of Namwali Serpell on left; photo of Maria Tumarkin on right
Conversations

The Limits of Empathy

Two writers on the ethics of pen and paper
Namwali Serpell
and
Maria Tumarkin
December 1, 2020
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Interviews

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

How do you turn lived experience into words?
Maggie Millner
September 18, 2020
Key Blue, by Joseph Schillinger, 1934
Interviews

Cathy Park Hong on Minor Feelings

The major weight of minor feelings
Meghan O’Rourke
June 1, 2020
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Interviews

Aysegül Savas on Being Edited

The dangers and glories of revision
Meghan O’Rourke
April 13, 2020