Interview

Talking with the author of The Underground Railroad about knowing when the time is right to write a book, schools skipping over slavery, and why Sonic Youth made his acknowledgments page.

The author of American Heiress on the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, San Francisco in the '70s, and why we're fascinated by decades-old trials. 

The director on the full restoration of Multiple Maniacs. 

In her new book, Grunt, Roach points her flashlight to the lengths we’ll go—and have yet to go—to keep people alive.

Talking to the artist and author of Dark Pool Party about celebrities as archetypal figures, shunning posterity, and whether we finally have the correct conditions for heterosexuality.

The author of Children of Paradise on a decade of reporting on Iran, history as a story of ideas, and the importance of understanding the events in foreign countries on their own terms.

The Palestinian filmmaker on nationalism, film as resistance and hope.

The author of Invisible Dead on why writing about Vancouver is liberating and the psychic cost of the truth. 

The author of Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality on scientific ignorance, the sexualized Other, and Victorian hang ups.