Interviews

Craig Fehrman on Presidential Prose

Andrew Heisel

When politicians can get their style and life story and political beliefs to line up—Obama was another example of this; so was Calvin Coolidge—they can appeal to voters in so many ways.

Daniel Poppick on End Times

Maggie Millner

Let’s say resolution is the feeling that the event has ended; the conflict has been fixed; we’re moving past it. Closure involves an opening-out.

Aria Aber on the Poetry of Exile

Meghan O'Rourke

I often fear that the chaotic household of imagery that populates many of my poems distracts from the violent subject matter. Beauty seems dangerous because you always run the risk of beautifying or glorifying atrocities.

Ben Lerner on Writing and Magic Pills

Catherine Barnett

I also wanted to write a family prehistory that was a window, one window, onto the prehistory of the Trump era.