Interview

'This Has Been Brewing For a Long Time': An Interview with the Americans' Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg

Speaking with the showrunners ahead of the spy drama's season-four finale about building to big narrative payoffs, allowing themes to emerge subconsciously, and when the show surprises even them.

'If There Isn't Something That Disquiets You, Why Would You Do It?': An Interview with John Irving

Talking with the author of Avenue of Mysteries about writing what you're afraid of, the vanity of the Great American Novel, and the perils of sleeping with both a mother and a daughter.

'There’s Either a Gun or a Wedding': An Interview with Whit Stillman

The director of Love & Friendship on Jane Austen, his failed career as a writer, and true crime television.

'When We Change Our Bodies, Do We Really Change?': An Interview with Mona Awad

The author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl on self image, how music and dance inform her writing, and emotional honesty. 

'If You Make the Same Film Twice You'll Make it Forever': An Interview with Ben Wheatley

Talking with the director of High-Rise about the challenges of adapting J.G. Ballard, the benefits of setting a film in the Seventies, and how genre can give and take away.

'A Story Hollywood Can't Stop Telling About Itself': An Interview with Karina Longworth

The host of the film podcast You Must Remember This on Howard Hughes, A Star is Born, and capitalism.

'It’s a Crisis Because There Are No Answers': An Interview with Ben Rawlence

The author of City of Thorns on generational pain, the context of radicalization, and the weight of place. 

'Freedom Is An Easily Abused Word': An Interview with Sarah Bakewell

Lines of inheritance and anxiety of influence at the Existentialist Café. 

'I Have No Excuses': An Interview with Richard Linklater

The director takes the optimism of youth—the idea that a better world is right around the corner—as seriously as his young characters deserve.