Inked
Tess Holliday – Bombshell
Model and body positivity activist Tess Holliday channels her inner Pamela Anderson for this sexy shoot.
7 min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Colson Whitehead Subverts the Crime Novel
In a country born of theft, everyone is an accomplice.
10 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The Unwritten Rules of Black TV
For decades, Black writers and producers have had to tell stories that fit what white executives deemed “authentic.” Can a new generation finally change that?
10+ min |
October 2021
New York magazine
1,960 minutes with …Isaac Fitzgerald
A pilgrimage with the most gregarious member of the literary internet.
6 min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
New York magazine
And Not a Drop to Drink
A neo-noir set in an even thirstier Hollywood.
6 min |
August 2 - 15, 2021
New York magazine
Anthony Veasna – Infinite Self
Anthony Veasna so died unexpectedly last winter, before his debut short-story collection, Afterparties, was released. Everyone remembers him differently.
10+ min |
August 2 - 15, 2021
New York magazine
Katie Kitamura – The Interpreter
Katie Kitamura’s hypnotic new novel asks, What happens when your main character is a passive witness to her own life?
5 min |
July 5-18, 2021
The Atlantic
Fiction – Bump
To those who accuse me of immoderate desire, I say look at the oil executives. Look at the Gold Rush. Look at all the women who want a ring and romance and lifelong commitment, and then look again at me.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
The Weird Science of Edgar Allan Poe
Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of empiricism.
10+ min |
July - August 2021
The Atlantic
The World Kodak Made
The tech giant of the 20th century changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country— and built the city where it made its home. Now Kodak and Rochester are trying to reinvent themselves, and escape their history.
10+ min |
July - August 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris introduced by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
7 min |
July - August 2021
The Atlantic
The Power of Refusal
New novels by Rachel Cusk and Jhumpa Lahiri explore women’s struggle to withdraw and create.
9 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Stacey Abrams Writes A Thriller
How she became a novelist, what politics and writing have in common, and why, at the end of every good story, someone’s got to die
10 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Alison Bechdel's Spiritual Sprint
In her new memoir, the cartoonist runs, climbs, bikes, skis, spins, and Solo exes her way toward transcendence.
6 min |
June 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
Ehrlich Speaks to Mother-Writers
Lara Ehrlich, author of the short story collection Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, 2020), has a deep narrative investment in the ways the world denies women power and agency. In October 2020 that commitment took a new shape with the first episode of her podcast, Writer Mother Monster, a much-needed balm for those of us balancing mothering and writing in the midst of a global pandemic. Aimed at dismantling the myth that women can “have it all,” her podcast is a series of interviews with mother-writers working in all genres, at varied points in their careers, who candidly discuss the joys and complications of that dual identity. Ehrlich, herself a mother-writer—her daughter turns five this year—spoke about what she has gleaned from these exchanges and how they’ve influenced her own approach.
2 min |
May - June 2021
New York magazine
Mads Mikkelsen – ‘Oh, That's Right. I'm This Guy.'
Mads Mikkelsen is known for playing villains in America and more nuanced roles in Denmark. He takes everything and nothing seriously.
10+ min |
April 26 - May 9, 2021
The Atlantic
The Awful Wisdom of the Hostage
What a new memoir reveals about endurance—and extreme remorse
10 min |
May 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
Asian Americans Are Ready for a Hero
After going from “model minority” to invisible minority to hunted minority, the community needs a new generation of cultural and political leaders
9 min |
April 12, 2021
The Atlantic
Beirut – After The Blast
Last summer’s explosion in Beirut killed hundreds of people and damaged much of the city. My efforts to repair my apartment reveal a lot about how Lebanon works—and doesn’t.
10+ min |
April 2021
New York magazine
The Culture Pages – The Queen of Fractured Fairy Tales
Hlen Oyeyemi writes magical, unsettling novels in which nothing remains fixed. She has lived her life that way, too.
10 min |
March 29 - April 11, 2021
Reader's Digest US
I Am Mangoes … A Sweet Treat at Its Peak
One summer day in the early 2000s, Pennsylvania dentist Bhaskar Savani sat outside the arrivals gate at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport waiting for his father to emerge.
4 min |
April 2021
New York magazine
Anything for You
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, artificial intelligence meets real sacrifice.
5 min |
March 15 - 28, 2021
Russian Life
Sidewalk Art
The lamentable state of Russia’s roads and sidewalks has long been fertile ground for memes and jokes. Irkutsk artist Ivan Kravchenko decided to turn the problem into an art project. For over two years he has been patching ruts in city sidewalks with colorful ceramic tiles.
6 min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
Sputnik V: First Place or Long Shot?
The Russian vaccine seems top-notch, but low public trust and a botched rollout remain formidable barriers to returning to normalcy.
5 min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
the Valley of the Dead
On the Trail of a Russian Movie Star
10+ min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
Food & Drink
Food & Drink
4 min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
POLAR YOUTH
Misha Smirnov has the day off. There are the traditional eggs for breakfast and the usual darkness out the window.
9 min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
Russian Chronicles
Russian Chronicles
10+ min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
A People on the Brink
Over the past century, the ancient people known as the Votes has been exiled twice, has seen its language banned, and has faced the threat of having its villages razed. Today, although teetering on the verge of extinction, it holds fast to one of the last rights it enjoys – the right to bear and to say its own name.
10+ min |
March/April 2021
New York magazine
A Work in Infinite Progress
For the Wooster Group, theater is a religion and the process is the point. Its latest: a years-in-the-making adaptation of Brecht’s The Mother.
2 min |