Interview

'The Thing About a Revolution Is It Always Comes As a Surprise': An Interview with Micah White

The author of The End of Protest on the pollution of the mental environment, giving up on nationalism, and finding reasons for optimism. 

'There's Not One Story That Defines Any One Place': An Interview with Amber Fares

The director of Speed Sisters, a documentary about female race car drivers in Palestine, on media portrayal of the Arab world, working with an all-female crew, and sports narratives. 

'Emotions Are More Important Than Monsters': An Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The filmmaker behind Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Cemetery of Splendour on how film and dreams influence each other, Bangkok's uniformity in American movies, and dinosaurs.

'There's No Mitigation for Killing a Child': An Interview with Fiona Barton

The author of The Widow talks about how her years of crime reporting experience informed her first novel. 

'Men Out of Time': An Interview with Bob Mehr

The author of Trouble Boys, a new book about The Replacements, on creation myths, serendipitous reporting and opening on a funeral.

'By the Time They Banished Me, I'd Already Finished Filming': An Interview with Mehrdad Oskouei

The Iranian documentarian on gaining trust, working with censors and the importance of independent filmmaking. 

'Empathy Implicates You': An Interview with Bill Hader

On Jeffrey Dahmer, classics professors, soccer hooligans and comic books. 

'Everything I Like is Uncool': An Interview with the Authors of a Book of Rom-Com-Inspired Poetry

Vancouver writers Dina Del Bucchia and Daniel Zomparelli on what we can learn from romantic comedies, why unrequited love is gross, and why everyone wants to slap Nicolas Cage.

'The Tension Between Artists and Critics is Crucial': An Interview with A.O. Scott

The New York Times film critic on the mistrust of critical vocabulary, making a case for his own abilities, and Ratatouille. 

'A Society That Can’t Speak is Like a Body That Doesn’t Feel Pain': An Interview with Anjan Sundaram

Speaking with the author of Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship, about violence and repression in Kagame-led Rwanda and the dark side of supposed symbols of progress.