Books

'I’ve Never Been That Chill About Being Alive': An Interview with Melissa Broder

The author of The Pisces talks astrology, fish sex and filling existential holes.

'Sci-Fi Music Felt Like a Vast, Interconnected Mythology': An Interview with Jason Heller

Talking about the Seventies, the inside-baseball debate over sci-fi vs. SF, and who's carrying the torch of sci-fi music today with the author of Strange Stars.

‘All Jobs Are Odd in Their Own Way’: An Interview with Rita Bullwinkel

The author of Belly Up on gender-neutral narrators, working in an allegorical mode, and interrogating the label of literary fiction.

'You Have to Be Slightly Uncomfortable to Walk Down the Street and Notice Things': An Interview with Sloane Crosley

The author of Look Alive Out There on neighbours, Generation X, and pot-smoking hippies in Northern California. 

'You Don’t Look in the Mirror and Mentally Remark on Your Asianness All the Time': An Interview with Kim Fu

The author of The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore on summer camps, inexplicit racism and the rarity of male authors who can write believable women characters.

The Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Gellhorn

For decades, the two maintained a warm correspondence that traces a remarkable friendship between two of the twentieth century's most formidable women.

‘The Kind of Faith That Was Begging to be Shattered by Complexity’: An Interview with Kate Harris

The author of Lands of Lost Borders speaks with her editor about travel, Virginia Woolf, and deciding not to go to Mars.

Searching for the Self-Loathing Woman Writer

Did these women hate themselves, or did they write about a world that hated them?

'Conversations Are the Only Things That Will Dissolve Difference': An Interview with Aanchal Malhotra

The author of Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, on  remembering a past “lodged in between the cracks of memory."

'Trans People Deserve Magic': An Interview with Kai Cheng Thom

The author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars on the joy of writing a cast of women, the violence of passing and the responsibilities of media-makers.