David Cronenberg
October 15, 2014
In nearly two dozen films over the course of the last half-century, the director of existential horror classics and poignant meditations on man’s relationship with technology has become a kind of soothsayer, a prophet. And still his new project is a bit of a shocker.
Ben Lerner
September 4, 2014
The poet turned novelist brings his mind-bending, time-twisting, radical prose experiments to the streets of New York with his second novel. And this time, we’re all in it together
Roger Corman
April 16, 2014
Before the man-eating summer blockbuster, before Sharknado, before aliens and biker psychopaths and knife-wielding babes in skimpy shorts regularly filled our screens, one director, producer, and Hollywood sensationalist defied all odds and mores to transform the 1950s and ’60s B-movie into an American work of art.
Edmund White
February 9, 2014
The author has always opened up his life to American audiences. Now he takes the story abroad to glamorous Paris with plenty of love, sex, death, parties, and more.
Robert Morris
January 5, 2014
Perhaps no living contemporary artist has been as multifaceted about meaning, multivalent with form, resistant to exposure, consistently innovative, always a few steps ahead of the situation, and influentially hard to pin down as the “post-minimalist” sculptor Robert Morris, who elides definitions in favor of open ends.
Gary Shteyngart
January 5, 2014
Ever wonder how a Russian émigré with a wicked sense of humor becomes A great American novelist? In his new memoir, Gary Shteyngart tells his craziest, funniest, super-saddest tale yet: his own.
Ai Weiwei
June 28, 2013
On the ground in China with the dissident artist who is leading a global revolution for free expression—that is, if the government doesn’t stop him first.
The Fighter
April 24, 2013
James Toback’s documentary Tyson (2008) and his memorable cameo in the Hangover movies have gone a long way toward rehabilitating the former boxer’s image from puerile and pugnacious to gentle and jovial.
Charles Ray
January 21, 2013
One of contemporary art’s true sculptural masters, Charles Ray has spent the past four decades creating a kinetic, polytropic, and occasionally unsettling body of work that has always asked more radical questions than it has sought to answer—some of them about the very nature of sculpture itself.
William Pope.L
January 20, 2013
Somewhere between formalism and the concrete struggles of race and identity, artist William Pope.L makes works that literally pull people together
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
December 1, 2012
At age 93, the legendary poet, publisher, activist, and beat icon isn’t done reshaping the nation’s literary landscape—and trying to save America from itself.
Scott Hutchins on AI and SF
October 2, 2012
Scott Hutchins’ novel, A Working Theory of Love, out this week from Penguin Press, revolves around Neill Bassett, a young San Franciscan whose doctor father committed suicide several years ago and who is now being asked by an ambitious artificial-intelligence start-up company to use the father’s obsessive diaries—Bassett Senior recorded the most quotidian events and thoughts—to cultivate a human-seeming personality inside a microchip.
Albert Maysles
July 22, 2012
Wherever they trained their cameras, documentary filmmakers Albert Maysles and his late brother, David, rendered their subjects compelling, pioneering the “direct cinema” of the early 1960s and getting even the toughest of characters—from over-the-top rock stars to bristly actors, hoarder socialites, calculating writers, and despairing door-to-door salesmen—to reveal what lies beneath
Aaron Sorkin
June 2, 2012
His new HBO series, The Newsroom, pulls back the curtain on the world of cable news. But what goes on behind the scenes at The Aaron Sorkin Show will really shock and surprise you
HWKN
May 31, 2012
Architects Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner want to change the world—one nanoparticle at a time
Lena Dunham
April 1, 2012
Actor-writer-director Lena Dunham’s new HBO series, Girls, is a paean to post-collegiate ennui and sex pretty close to the city
Alejandro Jodorowsky
February 14, 2012
The surrealist cinematic master looks back at a career of blowing boundaries and minds
Jeffrey Eugenides
September 24, 2011
With his latest novel, The Marriage Plot, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author behind The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex turns his mordant eye on another complicated, convoluted, slippery subject
Sam Shepard
September 24, 2011
On re-writing the rulebook, breaking the mold, and finding liberation in dark places.
Salem
September 1, 2011
They do music. They do videos. They do art. They do fashion. For a good time, call the creatively multitasking trio of Jack Donoghue, John Holland, and Heather Marlatt