Culture Archives - Public Seminar

Interviews

Poetry, Cocktails, and Faith

A conversation with poet Mashnun Munir

February 27, 2023 • by Shaiful Alam and Mashnun Munir

An interview with Mashnun Munir about his debut book Headspun and his experience of growing up in a low-income Muslim community in Orlando....

Growing Up With Bruce Springsteen

I wouldn’t be the man I am without him

September 30, 2019 • by Eric Alterman

To be honest, I don’t know how to sum up the role Springsteen has played in my life so far or even give it a coherent structure. Part of the problem is that I discovered Bruce when I was fifteen and I’m now fifty-nine. My understanding of the world and ...

Art & Design

The Art of Change Opera 0.1

An ongoing libretto

September 20, 2019 • by Chiara Bottici

The following is the opera’s libretto, conceived and developed by the philosopher and writer Chiara Bottici. In accordance with the spirit of the Centennial and of The New School’s legacy, it will be an ongoing and open libretto: we invite all readers to suggest changes, to propose quotations from their ...

Feature

The Biggest Dog You’ve Ever Seen

Interview with National Book Award Winner Sigrid Nunez

January 8, 2019 • by Sigrid Nunez and Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In November 2018, the prestigious National Book Award for fiction went to The Friend, a novel about grief, writing, friendship, and a Great Dane named Apollo. The author of The Friend (Riverhead Books, 2018) is Sigrid Nunez, a long-time faculty member of the New School Creative Writing Program. Nunez has published seven other books, ...