ICONS
Philip Glass on Moondog, Pop Music, and Mahatma Gandhi
December 7, 2023
“I know what direction I’m going in. I’m not sure whether other people are with me or not.”
LIT
Lexi Freiman Wrote the Year’s Funniest Novel. It’s About Ayn Rand.
December 5, 2023
“I do think we’ve been terrorized by lunatics on Twitter for long enough now.”
BOOK CLUB
“I Don’t Want Any Boners in My Direction”: Julia Fox, in Conversation with Charli XCX
December 1, 2023
“I’d rather have a bunch of girls fantasizing about me than a bunch of dudes jerking off to my photos.”
DEEP DIVE
An Index of Everything (and Everyone) Mentioned in Barbra Streisand’s Memoir
November 20, 2023
“I’ll show you, motherfucker!”
LIT
Bennett Sims on Style, Sebald, and His New Short Story Collection
November 17, 2023
“The one technology that I was concerned about the obsolescence of was Twitter.”
EXCERPT
How Sista Grrrl Riot Made Room for Black Queers in Punk
October 30, 2023
“Like, are we going to fight or fuck?”
LIT
Natasha Stagg on Fiction, Fuckboys, and Internet Fame
October 23, 2023
“It’s the weight of history crushing all of us.”
nineties
Ezra Petronio and Mel Ottenberg on Self Service, Big Shots, and the Stodgy French
October 17, 2023
“Everyone’s just being used at the end of the day. You’ll be front row until they decide you’re not front row.”
LIT
Ben Fama on Paranoia, Puffy Pouts, and the Perversities of the Internet
October 16, 2023
“Celebrities are already the dogs of our culture.”
Lit
Zadie Smith and Dev Hynes Grapple With the Eternal “Why”
October 11, 2023
Two weeks before the release of her sixth novel, the author and essayist spoke to her friend about middle-age injuries, SoulCycle shame, and what to do when mortality and creativity collide.
naked
Fancy Feast Tells Bowen Yang How to Safely Expel Bodily Fluids
October 11, 2023
“I have a set of pasties that accept Venmo.”
LIT
“It’s a Bit of a Puzzle”: Justin Torres on His Sophomore Novel, Blackouts
October 10, 2023
“For my own personal development, as somebody who’s interested in literature, I’d rather fail.”
LIT
Eliza Clark on Book Twitter, True Crime Junkies, and Her Chilling Sophomore Novel
September 29, 2023
“The weird citizen-detective stuff that’s popped up so much in the last few years is so toxic.”
LIT
“I Wanted Only Velocity”: Claudia Dey on Her Provocative Novel, Daughter
September 20, 2023
“I don’t know if I’m interested in relaxing.”
OPEN BOOK
James Frankie Thomas Tells Us His Favorite Campus Novels
September 14, 2023
“I sort of dispute the premise of this question.”
POET
“I Always Wanted to Be a Witness”: Dwayne Betts on House of Unending
September 14, 2023
“It fucked with me that we’re often entranced by ruin, but not enough to imagine doing something for the people that we are watching.”
LIT
Christine Lai on Archives, Ruins, and Her Debut Novel Landscapes
September 13, 2023
“It all looks very beautiful, genteel and civilized, but actually there is this history of destruction and brutality.”
GLOSSY
Marisa Meltzer and Busy Philipps on Glossier, Corporate Feminism, and Girlboss Lore
September 12, 2023
“I was just going to ask you how your eyebrows survived the nineties.”
Y2K
Alex Kazemi on Columbine, Content Warnings, and New Millennium Boyz
September 12, 2023
“I was trying to show that this suffocation and claustrophobia of being online is actually a very violent experience.”
LIT
Yiyun Li on Comic Books, First Drafts, and Writing Children
September 7, 2023
“I do think literature abuses children a little. They prove them dumb, right?”