Tag: interview

In an interview at GQ, Patricia Lockwood talks about the perils of being extremely online.

“The structural conditions shaping care work are highly exploitative—and are profoundly linked to the high degree of COVID-19’s spread within both long-term care facilities and the communities that supply their labor force.”

“In general, I try to expect nothing and hope that everything is possible. I want the courage to need very little and demand a lot.”

“We were interested in dead girls, but so interested in them that we were trying to do the opposite of what had been done before.” 

Writing about the culture and beauty of the Mississippi Delta requires seeing the mighty river as more than a line of water.

Daniel Immerwahr says studying the history of the Greater United States opens our eyes to how “racism has shaped the actual country itself. The legal borders of the country, but also the borders of the heart.”

Essayist Chelsea Hodson had to give herself permission to be uncomfortable.

After a profound shift in thinking about an unfairly stigmatized plant, Bolivia is ready to spread the gospel of coca.

“If you’re doing something small, something that’s mostly your labor and vision, then stick to what makes you satisfied.”

The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.

On Didion, Arendt, Malcolm, Ephron and other women writers who made an art of having an opinion.

Elizabeth Flock on the years she spent studying other people’s marriages in Mumbai.

“I thought I’d never publish these things. I thought it was important for me to hide the fact that I’m not right in the head.”

An interview with Mark Arax about the two decades he spent writing about the San Joaquin Valley empire of Lynda and Stuart Resnick.

Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.

Ten years and three presidents, later, Guy Fieri’s populist persona has proven extremely resilient.

Oluo’s interview is a master class in confrontation, in which the hard questions are asked and the answers are pushed.

In addition to offering plenty of great advice for aspiring writers, George Saunders reflects on the creative process for his new novel, the interviews, notes, and scenes that once distilled become his nonfiction work, and on bold compassion as the right course of resistance under a Trump presidency.

Anna Furman interviews Sarah Manguso about the process of writing her new book 300 Arguments, her writing influences, failure and thwarted ambition, and how Sarah’s sleeping post-inauguration.

In 1970, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) sat down for an interview with The Paris Review just months before abandoning his campaign for president, running as the Chilean Communist Party candidate. American author Rita Guibert conducted the interview at Neruda’s home in Isla Negra, just south of Valparaiso: Oh, there is no advice to give to […]

Yusaf Khalil interviews Syrian scholar Yasser Munif about the roots of the Syrian civil war and how the West is trying (and failing) to help.

In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.

At Vanity Fair, David Kamp interviews Bruce Springsteen on his upbringing, depression, and the seeds of his upcoming book, ‘Born to Run.’

There must be few journalistic feats more difficult than getting inside the head of a teenager. But with “13, Right Now,” Washington Post staff writer Jessica Contrera joins the ranks of reporters who have skillfully chronicled the lives of children and teens, including Susan Orlean (read her classic Esquire piece, “The American Man, Age 10”) and more […]

Jillian Keenan on her new memoir, which delves into her lifelong obsessions with spanking and Shakespeare.

Lauren Groff on not knowing what you’re doing, the thrill of the mess, and using all your senses to find a way in to the story.

What makes a secret society? Is it the codes and the handshakes, the physical language?

Daniel Le Bailly de La Falaise on private caterings for celebrities, the sexuality of a peach, and how the simplicity of food is the ultimate luxury.

If you don’t take Swift seriously, you don’t take contemporary music seriously. With the (arguable) exceptions of Kanye West and Beyoncé Knowles, she is the most significant pop artist of the modern age. The scale of her commercial supremacy defies parallel—she’s sold 1 million albums in a week three times, during an era when most […]

During the 1960s and 70s, legendary jazz drummer Art Taylor interviewed his fellow musicians. The interviews are collected in the 1993 book Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews, and it’s one of jazz’s greatest. The familial, casual conversations are also serious and insightful, full of history, portraiture, and revelations about race relations in America, and the […]