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Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Culture

“More Queer Writing, Please”

Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is being celebrated as the vanguard of a new trans lit. In this interview, Lawlor talks about Paul’s origins, trans identity, and the future of queer literature.

Andrea Lawlor, Spencer Quong

Global Justice, Literature & Culture

How to Think About Empire

Boston Review speaks with Arundhati Roy on censorship, storytelling, and her problem with the term ‘postcolonialism.’

Arundhati Roy, Avni Sejpal

Reading Lists

Our Favorite Interviews

Susan Sontag. Margaret Atwood. Errol Morris. David Runciman. China Miéville.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Politics

Selling Outrage

Yochai Benkler argues that the mainstream media is our best hope for tempering the radical right. 

Yochai Benkler, Deborah Chasman

Politics

Empire's Racketeers

Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of liberal democracy.

Wajahat Ali, Pankaj Mishra

Literature & Culture

Who's Got Personality?

The Myers-Briggs Bias: An Interview with Merve Emre

Merve Emre, Deborah Chasman

Politics

Errol Morris on Steve Bannon’s Dangerous ‘Dharma’

Morris on his new film and what he thinks of the man who likened himself to Darth Vader and Satan.

Errol Morris, Deborah Chasman

Literature & Culture

A Strategy for Ruination

An interview with China Miéville.

China Miéville

Poetry

The Conditions Are Always Impossible

Lily Blacksell talks to Luke Kennard about poetry, fiction, and the writing process.

Lily Blacksell, Luke Kennard

Literature & Culture

Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again

Junot Díaz interviews Margaret Atwood about The Handmaid's Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.

Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz

Poetry

A Freedom in Being Minor

Photo: futureatlas.com   In a Landscape, John Gallaher’s fifth book, is his attempt to put

John Gallaher, Jeff Alessandrelli

Books & Ideas

An Interview with Tobias Wolff

In "The Night in Question," as with a few of Tobias Wolff’s other short stories, there was a man

Quyen Nguyen, Tobias Wolff

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