rough draft
“I Think the Best Writing Destroys the World”: Da’Shaun L. Harrison Breaks Down Their Creative Practice
August 10, 2021
The “Belly of the Beast” author takes us beyond the blank page and into their process.
rough draft
Kiley Reid Is Reading About Swimming Pools and Socialism
May 18, 2021
The “Such a Fun Age” author takes us beyond the blank page and into her process.
dance
The Controlled Chaos of Madeline Hollander
October 30, 2020
The 34-year-old artist has built a career blending classical dance with the unruly disruptions of city life and technology.
in conversation
Jurnee Smollett and Samuel L. Jackson on Lovecraft Country, Blood Memory, and the Two Pandemics We’re Fighting
August 19, 2020
“Name me a time since 1619 that it wouldn’t be relevant. This story is ancestral.”
Petra Collins Can’t Stop Using the Snapchat Baby Filter
July 8, 2019
The photographer discusses her new book, skin suits, and the blurred reality of the internet age.
Before Shahadi Wright Joseph and Lupita Nyong’o Terrified Us on Film, They Terrified Each Other
March 25, 2019
The stars of Jordan Peele’s latest horror film Us confess to being scared of each other both on set and in real life — which is all very funny to them now.
Jordan Peele is producing a docuseries about the woman who cut off her husband’s penis
April 5, 2018
The Amazon series will explore Lorena Bobbitt’s side of the story, and how sexual assault factored into the incident.