Readings

The author of F-Bomb discusses men's rights activists, the changes in modern feminism, and why the movement can't be a monolith. 

As I watched my childhood friend under arrest on the evening news, the hopeful narratives of racial advancement that had sustained and motivated me began to collapse.

The journalist and author of The Only Café on violence, how curiosity sparks our accumulation of memory, and why nothing is ever new. 

Like anything I love, I mistrust the color green down to the fingernail-edges of all the feelings it engenders in me.

The author of Her Body and Other Parties on writing the fantastical, existing in the periphery and blueprints of the past. 

Obsession will always be an attractive fresh hell for a person like me, a product of abandonment with a longing for attachment.

Is it possible to decolonize and police a thing as subconscious and primal as desire?

The authors of Lost in September and Strangers with the Same Dream talk about the relationship between a writer and her characters, motherhood and work, and sexism in publishing.

The author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth on the novelist’s responsibilities in times of political chaos, the bending and breaking of structure and genre, the shifting nature of Jewishness and identity, and his ultimate subject: right, wrong, and why we crave it.