Alexis Okeowo: Everyday Africans Fighting Extremism
November 13, 2017
The journalist on establishing emotional connection in interviews, and getting on with the business of living after trauma.
Meara Sharma
Siri Hustvedt: Both Sides of the Chasm
April 3, 2017
The novelist and science writer on gender in publishing, the pleasures of neuroscience, and the necessity of rage.
Ron Shigeta: We All Need Biotechnology
February 20, 2017
The biotech entrepreneur on using lab-grown food and other forms of biomimicry to solve global crises.
Eric Asimov on Oenophilia
June 15, 2015
The New York Times chief wine critic on the perils of connoisseurship and the pleasure in discovering one’s personal taste.
A Non-Place by the Sea
December 23, 2014
When a storm destroyed Dhanushkodi, the government ordered it emptied. Fifty years later, we meet the people who stayed.
Gadadhara Pandit Dasa: What We Are Now, You Shall Be
December 15, 2014
The Hare Krishna monk on cultural stereotypes, teaching faith through food, and America’s obsession with yoga.
Claudia Rankine on Blackness as the Second Person
November 17, 2014
The National Book Award finalist on chronicling everyday racism, the violence inherent in language, and the continuum from Rodney King to Michael Brown.
Anthony Pinn on Divine Acquisition
October 1, 2014
The scholar of African-American religion on black megachurches and the marketability of the American Dream.
Jane Black and Brent Cunningham: Servings of Small Change
June 16, 2014
The food writers on building a food movement that transcends class lines.
Marcie Cohen Ferris: Salt of the Earth
March 17, 2014
The Southern food historian on the politics of consumption, matzoh ball gumbo, and the multicultural “terroir” of the South.
Bryan Stevenson: Walking With the Wind
March 17, 2014
The Alabama-based lawyer on who we talk about when we talk about the Old South, bringing 12 Years a Slave to Montgomery, and how his project to locate and mark the sites of slave markets speaks the language of Southern history.
Masha Gessen: Propaganda On Russia’s Own Shrinking Public Acceptance Space To Talk Of Reality
February 3, 2014
The investigative journalist on anti-queer campaigns and the "catastrophe" of exile.
Deborah Solomon: Through The Looking Glass
January 15, 2014
A new biography of Norman Rockwell casts light on the man who hid behind his finely wrought paintings.