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Interviews

“The gun has become a type of thinking”

A conversation about war with the Sudanese writer Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

June 26, 2024 • by Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin and Anna Simone Reumert

Sudan needs a leader that is disconnected to this power. The “Messiah” in my novel about Darfur is not connected to any religion, he is a symbol of spirituality. The opposite of political Islam, which has ruled the country for so long....

East Asia & Pacific

How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, The Storm We Made

A graduate of The New School’s MFA in Creative Writing shines a light on a rarely discussed period of Malaysian history

June 5, 2024 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In the lonely period of the pandemic, Vanessa Chan could not get home to her family. In those years, she lost her mother. She sheltered in place. And she wrote her first book, The Storm We Made....

How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, The Storm We Made

Interviews

Art and Wartime in Ann Hood’s The Stolen Child

The author on the process of finding her new novel

May 13, 2024 • by Ann Hood and Emma Minor

Author Ann Hood sits down with Emma Minor to discuss how her new novel THE STOLEN CHILD explores the complexities of forgiveness....

Art and Wartime in Ann Hood’s The Stolen Child

Interviews

Exploring Immigrant Experiences

Annell López on the deeply personal origins of her short stories

April 18, 2024 • by Annell López and Rupal Rao

Annell López on the deeply personal origins of her short story collection, I'll Give You a Reason...

Literature

Eugene Ostashevsky on the Holding Pattern of Revenge

Episode 13: On the holding pattern of revenge

April 2, 2024 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 13 of Multi-Verse podcast, poet Eugene Ostashevsky reads five sonnets and talks with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about mixing humor with horror and the stupidity of war....

Eugene Ostashevsky on the Holding Pattern of Revenge

Artificial Intelligence

Who’s Afraid of the Large Language Model?

Declining creativity in generative AI

March 27, 2024 • by Chris Holdaway

Whether as a tool for human poets or as a poetic agenda of its own, language models might embody to the truest extent the collision of computer revolution and ancient poiesis....

Who’s Afraid of the Large Language Model?

Literature

Invisible Scam: Percival Everett’s Erasure

On race, stereotypes, and “a wonderful, hideous joke”

March 26, 2024 • by Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus on the nuanced portrayal of race, family trauma, and cultural constructs in Percival Everett's ERASURE....

Invisible Scam: Percival Everett’s Erasure

Literature

“A vulnerable, she called me”

An excerpt from the award-winning author’s new novel

March 11, 2024 • by Sigrid Nunez

In an excerpt from The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez, a writer contemplates the first spring of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Body & Mind

Forget This Book

In The Vulnerables, Sigrid Nunez elegizes what we don’t remember

March 11, 2024 • by Chloe Cheimets

Whether we remember them or not, the details of life still drive our lingering emotions. ...

Literature

The Little Prince Haunts New York

Following Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from the Ritz to the East River

March 5, 2024 • by Albert Nguyen

When I moved to New York, I set out to discover how my new adopted home had influenced that sense of tristesse in The Little Prince, which Saint-Exupéry wrote during his 1941–1943 stay in the city....

Film & Performing Arts

Horror and Humor in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl

The genre-bending drama challenges the white workplace

February 26, 2024 • by Kelby Clark

Based on the bestselling novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl dissects the horror of insidious racism in white workplaces...

Horror and Humor in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl

Activism

Questioning Art in a Time of War

How the fabric of my sensory experience was transformed by Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitvah

December 6, 2023 • by Abby Merrick

Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah is nominally addressed to Jewish teens in the United States who are preparing for their B’nai Mitzvahs (a gender-neutral rendering of Bat or Bar Mitzvah). It was published in an edition of 3,000 by Wendy’s Subway, an independent Brooklyn publisher, with support from ...