‘I Love What Human Voices Do Together’: An Interview with Neko Case By Will Hermes Feature Neko Case talks about collaboration, women warriors, women inventors, men with excellent falsettos, losing her home to a fire, and feeling lucky in ‘a great sea of loss.’
Storytelling the Flood: Elizabeth Rush on Empathy and Climate Change By Bradley Babendir Feature In her new book, Elizabeth Rush gives voice to poor communities and communities of color who are the first victims of the rising sea.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reckons with Fame By Danielle Jackson Highlight In a New Yorker profile, the MacArthur ‘genius’ considers her legacy.
‘Unfettered Glamour’: The Legendary Career of André Leon Talley By Danielle Jackson Highlight The highs and lows of André Leon Talley’s important, trailblazing career are traced in a new documentary about his life.
Farming A Warming Planet: An Interview Nathanael Johnson By Aaron Gilbreath Feature How California farmers are planning ahead for climate change while balancing their immediate economic concerns.
‘I Was a Storm of Confetti’: Michael Pollan On Why It’s a Good Idea To Lose Your Self By Hope Reese Feature Michael Pollan talks about using psychedelic drugs, escaping his own ego, and the therapeutic potential of seeing yourself spread out over the landscape like a coat of paint.
Rita Dove on Creating a ‘Collage of American Consciousness’ with Poetry By Krista Stevens Highlight “The sole criterion is, how does it move us? Does it pull us out of our everyday trot?”
Stacey Abrams’ Historic Win in Georgia: A Reading List By Danielle Jackson Reading List Stacey Abrams’ win in Georgia could put one of the U.S.’s most populous red states in play for progressives for the first time in decades.
The New, Improved, Empathic Sarah Silverman By Krista Stevens Highlight Formerly controversial comic Sarah Silverman is “on a campaign to neutralize her haters with a weapon more powerful than a million burns: empathy.”
A City in Upheaval: The Story of a Single Block in West Oakland’s Ghost Town Neighborhood By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Annette Miller, a longtime resident of West Oakland’s Ghost Town neighborhood, has witnessed the dramatic transformation of the city as changes sweep the block she’s lived on for over 50 years.
The Whole World is Naples Now By Michelle Weber Highlight Sprawling, crumbling, beautiful, rough — Elena Ferrante’s Naples shows us the world’s violent underbelly, with no pretense.
Who Sank El Faro? An Interview With Rachel Slade By Joshunda Sanders Feature Having solved the mystery of the largest maritime disaster in a generation, Rachel Slade can see how what happened on the ocean is an allegory for what’s happening on dry land.
Man vs. Gig: Doug Schifter’s Last Stand By Michelle Weber Highlight An important look at a dysfunctional industry, and a master class in profile writing.
The Tether Between Two Worlds: An Interview with Sergio De La Pava By Tobias Carroll Feature His new novel is about mass incarceration, indoor football, and parallel universes. De La Pava says that when “you dig deep, you start seeing the way everything is connected.”
Reporting on Bolivia’s Coca Rebirth: An Interview with Jessica Camille Aguirre By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary After a profound shift in thinking about an unfairly stigmatized plant, Bolivia is ready to spread the gospel of coca.
Zadie Smith on the Work and Influences of Deana Lawson By Danielle Jackson Highlight Lawson’s photographs capture the divinity and stateliness of its working-class subjects.
‘Like Floating Through a Library’: An Interview with Nick Paumgarten By Aaron Gilbreath Feature The New Yorker writer takes readers through the riparian heart of Big Bend National Park.
A Kendrick Lamar Syllabus By Danielle Jackson Reading List The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s work always feels honest, as writers have found when they dive deep into his literary influences.
Could Paulette Jordan of Idaho Become the Country’s First Native American Governor? By Danielle Jackson Highlight In Idaho, former state representative Paulette Jordan faces a tough race to become the nation’s first Native American governor.
Publishing the Best of the Desert: An Interview With Ken Layne By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary “If you’re doing something small, something that’s mostly your labor and vision, then stick to what makes you satisfied.”
Janelle Monáe’s New Music Teases a Queer, Femme Sensibility By Danielle Jackson Highlight Singer Janelle Monáe’s first full-length album in five years, “Dirty Computer,” takes an explicit look at sexual expression and female identity.
Everyone’s Gotta Make a Living By Michelle Weber Highlight Composer Philip Glass was a plumber, a mover, a taxi driver — and as a child, a clerk in his father’s record store, where he learned a key lesson.
Earning Our Place on the Planet: An Interview with adrienne maree brown By Justin Scott Campbell Feature Her planet/self-help guide for activists, “Emergent Strategy,” is going mainstream — maybe even in time to save the world.
Sometimes the Story Finds You: An Interview With Rachel Monroe By Aaron Gilbreath Feature The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.
‘I Try Not to Have a Schedule’: Talking Writing with William Vollmann By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Renowned for the size of his books as the magnitude of his subjects, the author is ready to take on waste and climate change.
Maybe We’re the Circle By Megan Stielstra Feature Megan Stielstra and Nicole Piasecki talk about the shooting that changed their lives, who owns the story, and what to do with fear. Part three of a three-part series on gun violence.
Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean By Natalie Daher Feature On Didion, Arendt, Malcolm, Ephron and other women writers who made an art of having an opinion.
The Writers’ Roundtable: Fiction vs. Nonfiction By Eva Holland Feature A conversation between writers Eva Holland, Benjamin Percy, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Mary H.K. Choi, and Adam Sternbergh about writing on both sides of the fiction-nonfiction divide.
“Hey, Can I Sleep In Your Room?”: Studying Love with Elizabeth Flock By Jonny Auping Feature Elizabeth Flock on the years she spent studying other people’s marriages in Mumbai.
Bernadette Peters Is Not a Child By Catherine Cusick Highlight Even Bernadette Peters, as fearless and as formidable as ever, has been described for decades as cute and naïve.
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