Interview

How To Run (Away To) The Circus

The author meets an old carny who could have been stripped from the pages of her new novel.

‘Confronting the language of lies’: Masha Gessen on Pussy Riot

The Russian-American journalist talks to Hazlitt about her new book, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, and the perils of resistance in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

‘One Hot Nebbish’: An Interview with Gary Shteyngart

The tragicomic novelist—now memoirist—talks about his father’s harrowing upbringing, the value of asthma, modern threats to reading culture, and what he really thinks of Canadian writers.

Dreams Adapted

Paul Aikins was an actor; he ended up teaching high school music theatre. Now, with the national-champion choir he leads featured in a new documentary, an old student checks in with her teacher and former enemy.

Just Be Tavi Gevinson: An Interview with the Rookie Editor

On the occasion of her online magazine’s second anniversary—and second publication, Rookie Yearbook Two—the 17-year-old empire operator talks about art, commerce, ’90s nostalgia, and getting off the internet.

Salvage Operations: In Conversation with Jonathan Lethem

A conversation about politics as culture with Dissident Gardens author Jonathan Lethem.

Ron Mann on the Making of Comic Book Confidential

The filmmaker behind the seminal documentary, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, talks to Hazlitt about how the project came together, underground comics in Reagan-era America, and a memorable call to Mad magazine.

“Who survives, who doesn’t?” An Interview with Margaret Atwood

Hazlitt talks to Margaret Atwood about her latest novel, MaddAddam, which completes the dystopic trilogy she began with Oryx and Crake. Plus everything from Twitter flirtations, military history, the state of Canadian literature, and cybersecurity.

||Tao Lin meeting the character who will be in his book.
Tao Lin Interviewed by a Character in His Book

In Taipei, Tao Lin's third novel and seventh book, the protagonist takes drugs, falls in "love," and sits down for an interview with a 22-year-old journalist. Here, that journalist—or rather, the woman she's based on—speaks with Lin once again.