Interview

A conversation about politics as culture with Dissident Gardens author Jonathan Lethem.

The filmmaker behind the seminal documentary, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, talks to Hazlitt about how the project came together, underground comics in Reagan-era America, and a memorable call to Mad magazine.

The author, who debuted in 2006 with Special Topics in Calamity Physics, talks about crafting the dark, dense world of her latest novel, Night Film; why she prefers terror to horror; and following Woody Allen through the streets of Manhattan.

The Kenyan-born British poet talks to Hazlitt about finding inspiration in life’s oddities (from finding women living in your walls to Dogtooth), telling her family’s stories, and why she hates being called “brave.”

Hazlitt talks to Margaret Atwood about her latest novel, MaddAddam, which completes the dystopic trilogy she began with Oryx and Crake. Plus everything from Twitter flirtations, military history, the state of Canadian literature, and cybersecurity.

Hazlitt interviews the author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. about the inner psyche of literary white-dudes, relationship insecurities, and whether the novel is being marketed too narrowly as a “Brooklyn literary book.”

In Taipei, Tao Lin's third novel and seventh book, the protagonist takes drugs, falls in "love," and sits down for an interview with a 22-year-old journalist. Here, that journalist—or rather, the woman she's based on—speaks with Lin once again.

The 26-year-old Israeli novelist—and former weapons instructor—debuted last year with The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, inspired by her experience in the IDF. She is serious and blunt, but liable to giggle at Youtube videos.

The journalist and author of Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina talks about tracing her DNA and the nature of identity.