Readings

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

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

For the fiftieth anniversary of the book's publication, a discussion of craft, veracity and the literary appeal of true crime. 

Two queer journalists discuss bearing the burden of educating their co-workers and dealing with discrimination.

Mrs. Dalloway and the promise and problems of empathy.

"You want Enlightenment? Well, here. It’s not exactly what you thought."

When New York’s Per Se was devastated by a recent Times review, why weren't restaurateur Thomas Keller’s peers anywhere to be seen?

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.

"I think about the future only in the sense of dying. I don’t even mean it to be bleak—that’s just how I think of it. Anything I write comes out that way."