Washington Post
Bao Ninh on Coming to Terms with Trauma in Vietnam
Olga Ravn on Putting Everything into “My Work”
Interview with Elena Kostyuchenko: “Fascism can grow on every soil. No one is immune.”
Interview with Orhan Pamuk: “First, survive. Don’t rush to jail. Then, write.”
Maria Stepanova on Russian censors: ‘At some point, they’ll start jailing each other’
In ‘The Sympathizer,’ the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective
Paul Theroux on where the future George Orwell got some of his strongest ideas
Interview: Bret Easton Ellis Talks About His New Sincerity and “The Shards”
Publishers Weekly
Mosab Abu Toha on Mahmoud Darwish and Thuận on Trần Dần
China Miéville on Jane Gaskell and Keanu Reeves on Cormac McCarthy
Paul Theroux on George Orwell and Ferdia Lennon on James Joyce
Jennifer Egan on Edith Wharton and Jinwoo Chong on John Okada
Lois Lowry on Flannery O’Connor and Helen Phillips on Italo Calvino
Emily St. John Mandel on Irène Némirovsky and Sarah Rose Etter on Tove Ditlevson
Roxane Gay on Marguerite Duras and Kaveh Akbar on Amos Tutuola
Valeria Luiselli on Juan Rulfo and Mauro Javier Cárdenas on Leonora Carrington
Olga Ravn on Doris Lessing and Karl Ove Knausgård on Jorge Luis Borges
Chuck Palahniuk on Ira Levin and Claire Dederer on Laurie Colwin
Esquire
Interview: Annie Proulx Is Done Fighting Climate Change. Now, She’s Adapting To It
Interview: Emily Wilson Wants to Make Your Cry
Interview: For Shokoofeh Azar, “Final Victory Against the Islamic Republic is Very Close”
Interview: Don Winslow Saw Right Through Our Mafia President
How Don Winslow Turns Ancient Mythology Into Contemporary Crime Thrills
Al Jazeera
‘Living to death’: Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Gaza’s trauma, one year on
Brutality of oppression: Ai Weiwei speaks on Gaza, China and New York City
We must ‘rehumanise ourselves’: Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour
The Believer
Rolling Stone
Interview: The Never-Ending Psychedelic Trip of Michael Pollan
‘I’ll Admit I Blew It’: Michael Richards Talks Kramer, Vietnam, and That Racist Outburst
The Millions
A Stirring, Surreal Portrait of AI-Empowered Authoritarianism
At Long Last, a Translation Worthy of ‘Pedro Páramo’
Álvaro Enrigue Won’t Romanticize Mexican History
‘Oh God, The Sun Goes’ Is Strange, Surreal, and Utterly Sincere
The Daily Beast
‘Persepolis’ Author Says ‘a Banned Book … Is a Good Book’
Interview with Jennifer Egan: Jennifer Egan Leads a Tour of Her Latest Fractured Fairytale
Interview with Hernan Diaz: Hernan Diaz Takes Aim at Our Myths About Cowboys and Tycoons
Interview with Claire Dederer: If We Cancel Michael Jackson, Must We Cancel ‘Thriller’ Too?
Interview with Lisa Taddeo: “People Who Present Depravity Are Most Often Just More Honest”
Interview with Chloe Cooper Jones: She’s Been Disabled Her Whole Life – You Can Keep Your Pity
Interview: Adia Victoria Wrote a Hit Blues Record While Working in an Amazon Factory
Michael Pollan Does Drugs–and You Probably Do Too
The Observer
The Provocative and Risqué Rise of Painter Fabian Cháirez
Gianluca Costantini Is Using Art to Change the World
The Art of Mexico City, Both On and Off the Beaten Path
The Offbeat Art of Berlin 35 Years After the Fall of the Wall
Where to See the Best Art in Seattle: From Eclectic Museums to Exciting Community Projects
Munch, Black Metal and the Nobel Peace Center: A Guide to the Art of Oslo
Where to See the Best Art in Amsterdam
From the Old West to Alien Landscapes: Where to Seet the Best Art in Denver
The Must-Visit Museums and Art Experiences of Chicago
The Los Angeles Times
Interview: Why Tim O’Brien’s first novel in 20 years is about America’s ‘mythomania’
Afar
Exploring Hunter Thompson’s Colorado
Salon
Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn’t actually write Westerns
The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image
Nautilus
Don’t We Belong to Nature? – Interview w/ Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Creeping Techno-Horror of Benjamin Labatut’s the MANIAC
The Dark Underbelly of the Near Future: Q&A with Helen Phillips
How AI Helped Write a New Novel
Minor Literatures
Review: The Morningside by Téa Obreht
ArtNews
Mexico’s Best-Kept Secret is Zacatecas’s Vibrant Art Scene
What Art Loves Should See in Mexico City, One of the World’s Top Art Destinations
Amsterdam Museum Guide: 7 Must-Visit Venues in the Dutch Capital and Beyond
Thrillist
Henry Miller Memorial Library: This One-of-a-Kind Bookstore Is Hidden in the Forest of Big Sur
Living Life Fearless
We Haven’t Been Listening to Enough Vibraphonists: An Interview with Patricia Brennan
Abuse and “A Weird Almost-Therapy Session” with Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L
War and Peace: Why Reading Literary Behemoths Needs to Become a Thing Again
Sickeningly Familiar: How Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’ Hits Way Too Close to Home
How Horror Reflects Reality: What Kinds of Movies Will Emerge from Covid-19?
The Ideal Art for the End of the World: Artistic Suggestions Inspired by Catastrophe
Cinema Is Alive and Well: The Top 10 Films of the 2010s
The Failure of ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ Proved the Pitfalls of Meta-Entertainment
Isolation on Film: How ‘Jaws’, ‘The Shining’, and ‘The Thing’ Make You Feel Alone
Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ has a Representation Problem
50+ Years of Neil Young: What Artists Can Learn from the Godfather of Grunge
2020 Oscar Reactions: Where They Got It Right and Wrong (and Who Should Win)
The Return of Rage: The Influences and Influence of Rage Against the Machine
What Can Modern “Digital Nomads” Learn from the 1944 Classic Novel ‘The Razor’s Edge’?
In this Age of Political Correctness Let’s Remember the Delightful Obscenity of Henry Miller
‘The Testaments’: Margaret Atwood’s Sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Brings Gilead to Our Times
Convince Me I’m Wrong: John Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’ Is the Greatest Novel of All Time
Critics Don’t Get It: ‘Joker’ Continues the Tradition of Film Tapping into Popular Rage
RIP: The Devil in Daniel Johnston Finally Sleeps
Interview with Guillermo Gómez-Peña: “Does Hope Put You at Odds with the State?”
Anthony Bourdain: A Belated Obituary to a Working Class Hero
Michael Crichton—One of the Greatest Science Writers Ever—Was a Mystical Weirdo: Should You Be Too?
Is Evolution Attempting to Correct Post-Modern Mistakes with this “Trump” Era?… Ken Wilber Thinks So
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: How the West Wove Violence into the American Psyche
Scared of Our Own Shadow: ‘Groundhog Day’ Is a Sneaky Discourse on Buddhism
A Prescription for Better Living: The Stoic Philosophy of Bill & Ted
Marvin Gaye’s New Album Is the Music We Need for Troubled Times
I’m an Art Snob Who Gave the MCU a Chance (and So Should You)
David Lynch Brings Back the Strange and Wonderful With Twin Peaks: the Return
Sometimes Artists Get Worse (But Sometimes We Should Love Them Anyways): the Misfits–A Case Study
Fleabag, Killing Eve, and Now Star Wars: Meet Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Sam Elliott Might Be the Greatest Living (Under-the-Radar) Actor
The French Writer Who Beat the MCU by 200 Years
For Amateur Art Appreciateurs: 7 Tips for Getting the Most Out of an Art Museum
We Must Cultivate Our Garden: How to Support the Artists You Love
From Bowie to Bay, Papa to 2Pac: Do Posthumous Releases Ruin Legacies?
Smart Music for All: Adia Victoria Leaves the High Art/Low Art Duality Behind
How the Rocky Series has (Almost Always) Done It Right
When Art Predicts the Future: How an 80 Year Old Novel Foretold of Trump
Time to Heal Our Women: When Hip Hop Goes Feminist
A Brief Guide to Troublemaking Artists Who Have Called Paris Home
Greatist
My Successful Failure and 5 Lessons It Taught Me About the Creative Process
The Manual
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The most exciting new book releases for the rest of 2023
The Best Short Stories Ever Written
The Greatest Vietnam War Books Ever Written
Looper
The untold truth of Bong Joon-ho
War movie scenes that went too far
Great movies we can’t believe are turning 40 in 2020
Find many more on my Looper author profile
Vice
Spanish Bombs: Granada Unveils Joe Strummer Plaza
MVRemix
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