Interview

'The Tension Between Artists and Critics is Crucial': An Interview with A.O. Scott

The New York Times film critic on the mistrust of critical vocabulary, making a case for his own abilities, and Ratatouille. 

'A Society That Can’t Speak is Like a Body That Doesn’t Feel Pain': An Interview with Anjan Sundaram

Speaking with the author of Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship, about violence and repression in Kagame-led Rwanda and the dark side of supposed symbols of progress.

'It’s Not Sane to Just Stay in a Little Paradise': An Interview with Anne Émond

The Quebec director on tackling suicide, absence, and inherited melancholia in her latest film

Saul Bellow's Last Interview
Saul Bellow's Last Interview

The story behind the last known interview with the author of Herzog, Ravelstein, and The Adventures of Augie March, with exclusive video.

'The Intense Erotica of the Propulsion of a Sentence': An Interview with Garth Greenwell

Talking with the author of What Belongs to You about the stimulating power of language, the falseness of authenticity, and how important it is to be an idiot.

'We Can't Necessarily Anticipate How Magneto Might Act': An Interview with Cullen Bunn

Speaking with the comic writer about the history and current state of horror comics, the hot tempers of Aquaman fans, and life as a child hypnotist. 

'The Next Portugal Will Be a Different One': An Interview with Miguel Gomes

The director of Arabian Nights on Godard as the master of clash, "artisanal blockbusters," and why cinema is like electricity. 

'The Trick is to Think of Someone From the Inside Out': An Interview with Jesse Eisenberg

The actor and writer joins us on the telephone from his Great Aunt Doris's home in Murray Hill. 

'You Have This Utopian Vision, and You See it Go Sour': An Interview with Luc Sante

Talking with the author of The Other Paris about the attacks in France, how writing about Paris is different than writing about New York, and making peace with "aggressively repellent" buildings.

'Okay is Nowhere Near Being Alive': An Interview with Edmund de Waal

Speaking with the ceramicist and author of The White Road about how his work in writing and art influence and inform each other, bringing historical figures to life, and how to leave space in a book.