IN CONVERSATION
Jordan Tannahill Tells Tony Kushner How He Wrote the Year’s Wildest New Play
July 15, 2025
For Jordan Tannahill, “Prince Faggot” began with a question: what if the heir to the British throne were gay? Here, he joins Tony Kushner for a wide-ranging conversation about kink, shame, fascism, royalty, and reckoning with identity in art.
FICTION
Can a Trans Writer Be America’s Next Great Novelist? Torrey Peters Thinks So.
March 12, 2025
Earlier this month, we visited the “Detransition, Baby” author at her Brooklyn apartment to talk about writing amidst the Trump administration’s assault on trans rights.
DIRECTOR
Emma Seligman and King Princess on Horny Teens and High School Trauma
August 28, 2023
“I feel like teenagers, at least from what I witnessed in high school, are the horniest creatures of all time.”
in our feelings
Conor Oberst on Learning How to Say Goodbye
October 7, 2020
After releasing the band’s first album in nearly a decade, the Bright Eyes frontman speaks with ALOK about fame at 15 and living with loss.
Hilton Als Wants to Save James Baldwin From Us All
February 6, 2019
The critic and curator is attempting to make America’s greatest writer alive again.