Esquire
Annie Proulx Is Done Fighting Climate Change. Now, She’s Adapting To It
Emily Wilson Wants to Make Your Cry
For Shokoofeh Azar, “Final Victory Against the Islamic Republic is Very Close”
Don Winslow Saw Right Through Our Mafia President
How Don Winslow Turns Ancient Mythology Into Contemporary Crime Thrills
Washington Post
Elena Kostyuchenko: “Fascism can grow on every soil. No one is immune.”
Bao Ninh on Coming to Terms with Tramau in Vietnam
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’
Olga Ravn on Putting Everything into “My Work”
Paul Theroux on where the future George Orwell got some of his strongest ideas
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
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
Lois Lowry on Flannery O’Connor and Helen Phillips on Italo Calvino
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
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
The Observer
The Provocative and Risqué Rise of Painter Fabian Cháirez
Gianluca Costantini Is Using Art to Change the World
Rolling Stone
The Never-Ending Psychedelic Trip of Michael Pollan
‘I’ll Admit I Blew It’: Michael Richards Talks Kramer, Vietnam, and That Racist Outburst
Scientific American
Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms: An Interview with Paul Stamets
The Daily Beast
Marjane Satrapi Says ‘a Banned Book … Is a Good Book’
Jennifer Egan Leads a Tour of Her Latest Fractured Fairytale
Hernan Diaz Takes Aim at Our Myths About Cowboys and Tycoons
Lisa Taddeo: “People Who Present Depravity Are Most Often Just More Honest”
Claire Dederer: If We Cancel Michael Jackson, Must We Cancel ‘Thriller’ Too?
Chloe Cooper Jones: She’s Been Disabled Her Whole Life – You Can Keep Your Pity
Joyce Lee: Frauds Keep Selling This South Korean Artist’s Surrealist Erotica as Scam NFTs
Adia Victoria Wrote a Hit Blues Record While Working in an Amazon Factory
The Los Angeles Times
Why Tim O’Brien’s first novel in 20 years is about America’s ‘mythomania’
The Millions
Álvaro Enrigue Won’t Romanticize Mexican History
Nautilus
Don’t We Belong to Nature? – Interview w/ Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Dark Underbelly of the Near Future: Q&A with Helen Phillips
The Serious Moonlight
Author Karl Marlantes Says Every Generation Must Renew the Fight Against Fascism
Novelist Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits and the Point of History
Latinxfuturist Poet Vincent Toro Wants to Toto the Technopoly’s Wizard of Oz
Living Life Fearless
We Haven’t Been Listening to Enough Vibraphonists: An Interview with Patricia Brennan
Guillermo Gómez-Peña: “Does Hope Put You at Odds with the State?”