Interviews

Interview: Cathy Park Hong

On the routine trauma of being told there is equality while feeling there isn't

Meghan O'Rourke

I didn’t want people to just think through my argument; I wanted people to feel through my argument.

Interview: Aysegül Savas

On being edited

Meghan O'Rourke

I trust editors. I’ve never worked with a bad editor, so I think they probably see the overall picture.

Amy Herzog and Brenda Shaughnessy on Art and Motherhood

Meghan O'Rourke

You can’t separate motherhood from the imagination, or from reality.

Interview: Robyn Schiff on Going Long

Maggie Millner

It was a little feminist joke to self about what a man of my age and ambition would do next: obviously, write an epic.

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.