Interview

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. 

The author of Ask Polly and How to Be A Person in the World on non-joiner instincts, leading with feelings and crawling towards a new kind of happiness. 

Moroccan architect Aziza Chaouni was determined to make ancient manuscripts accessible to the public. 

Talking with the author of White Sands about blurring the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction, the disappointments of pilgrimage, and the possibilities of serious comedy.