Tag: interviews

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.”

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

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

Renowned for the size of his books as the magnitude of his subjects, the author is ready to take on waste and climate change.

“If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”

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.

Michele Lent Hirsch on the challenges young women with serious health issues face while navigating their relationships, careers, and own sense of who they are.

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.

The author on his writing process and what it was like to watch a film based on one of his books.

Mario Livio on his new book about human curiosity, his work as an astrophysicist, and why we shouldn’t fear our expanding universe.

Jessica Berger Gross on what it means to sever ties with your family.

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

The sci-fi writer explains how his city-dwellers learn to survive and thrive after a climate-change catastrophe.

Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.

The New Yorker staff writer on her new memoir, ‘The Rules Do Not Apply.’

Sharon Begley explores the behaviors we engage in to cope with unbearable anxiety.

Sy Montgomery, author of the book “The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness,” reflects on the uncanny intelligence, intuition, and surprising sex lives of octopuses.

In a candid interview at the Guardian, author Paul Auster — who turns 70 next month — discusses his breadth of work over the decades, American life and politics in the age of Trump, and his new novel, 4321, which he refers to as the biggest book of his life.

Dan Ariely on building an understanding of how humans behave from the ground up.

A conversation on art with critic Jerry Saltz.

Author Jonah Berger explains when and why we follow the herd.

A conversation with violinist Michelle Ross, who, for a month, toured New York City playing Bach’s entire solo violin cycle in public spaces.

An conversation with the author about his dark new short story collection, The Pier Falls.

An interview with graphic novelist Daniel Clowes about his new book, ‘Patience,’ and several decades of comics craft.

The way our studio was set up back then was we had a control room where our mix board was and all that stuff, then there was a little lounge right outside with a couch. She was out there sitting and when I put it on, I could see her starting to move a little […]

She is conservative in her politics and her spirituality, sure, but she’s deeply concerned for the planet’s welfare and sees environmental protection as a Christian imperative.

Artist and illustrator Maira Kalman on mistakes, optimism, and how art (and dogs) warm the soul.

In The New York Times Magazine Susan Burton profiles “national interviewer” Terry Gross, who celebrates 40 years behind the microphone as the host of NPR’s Fresh Air.

Berkeley Breathed is responsible for one of the more delightful things to happen to my Facebook feed in some time: The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, who created “Bloom County” and characters like Opus the penguin, has revived his beloved comic strip after a 25-year hiatus, posting new installments on his Facebook page. In a new interview […]