_The Cultured Collector_ , published by Monacelli, will be released Oct. 28. It offers a peek inside the art-filled homes of Joe Jonas, Jen Rubio, Alicia Keys, and more...
_The Cultured Collector_ , published by Monacelli, will be released Oct. 28. It offers a peek inside the art-filled homes of Joe Jonas, Jen Rubio, Alicia Keys, and more...
In honor of what would’ve been Allen Ginsberg’s 100th birthday this month, Interview is republishing this conversation between the poet and longtime friend Gregory Corso. This text originally appeared in the December 1989 issue of the magazine. ——— The son of the poet Louis Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg was raised in Paterson, New Jersey, and attended […]
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The cookbook industry’s most wholesome ambassador is moonlighting as a queer romance novelist this summer. Expect dirt, sapphic yearning, and post-coital spaghetti...
Don't worry if you don't understand all of Ulysses. It's like life: most of us never figure out what that's all about, and it doesn't really matter.
Emeline Atwood's 'A Real Animal' plumbs the subconscious—of its author and protagonist alike...
The writer Lydia Mathis's short story collection about the desires of Black women and girls will be published this fall by Roxane Gay's imprint...
What is the future of literature? And who is shaping it? _CULTURED'_ s inaugural Young Writers list, developed in collaboration with Montblanc, presents 10 authors—and 10 answers to the burning questions confronting the next generation...
Rayne Fisher-Quann, author of the popular Substack "Internet Princess," is publishing her first book of essays this fall...
Malavika Kannan’s "Unprecedented Times" features a burnt-out youth climate activist whose college experience is interrupted by the pandemic...
The writer K-Ming Chang, whose tenth novel is out in October, gets inspiration from playing with her three pet parrots...
After unraveling the history of trans athletes in the sports arena, Michael Waters is moving on to a dissection of our modern credit system...
The 2026 Young Writer Leah Abrams's first work of fiction centers an all-too-real loss of innocence in evocative prose...
The model and writer, who spent time in a monastery, took a slightly less ascetic but no less intense approach to her first novel...
The debut novelist Cay Kim writes about being caught between two places and cultures, a tension the Seoul-born Columbia MFA graduate knows well...
China has witnessed the greatest stretch of sustained growth and poverty alleviation in human history, made possible by the brutal exploitation of millions workers. A new book recounts the life of one of them offering a glimpse into the dark side of China’s success.
Most of us who know the work of Roald Dahl grew up with it, eventually coming to consider the man a master of imaginative, often grotesque tales for children. A bit later on, when we heard that he’d also written books for adults, with titles like Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch, some of us sought […]
For over a decade, Édouard Louis has been one of France’s most perceptive writers on his country’s working class. But as he has drifted away from this milieu, he has swapped clear-eyed analysis for cliché-ridden romanticization of the suffering poor.
As we’ve noted before, the English coffeehouse has served as a staging ground for radical, sometimes revolutionary social change. Certainly this was the case during the Enlightenment, as it was with the salons in France. And yet, by the early 20th century it seems, coffee shops in London had grown scarcer and more humdrum. That […]
In Luke Goebel’s much-hyped novel Kill Dick, a rich dropout is hooked on OxyContin, a drug manufactured by her lawyer dad’s biggest client. Aptly set in a strange and soporific Los Angeles, it captures the degradation of American society and interior life.
The author reveals how her autism diagnosis changed how she thinks about her writing, her body, and family dynamics.
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From Lena Dunham's new memoir to the viral tradwife satire _Yesteryear_ , these are the books your favorite readers are taking on vacation...
ලේඛක දීපචෙල්වන් ප්රදීපන්ගේ පොත් හතරක් ශ්රී ලංකා රේගුව විසින් රඳවා තබා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පසුගිය කාලයේ සමාජය තුළ බරපතල සංවාදයක් මතු විය. එහි ප්රතිඵලයක් ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා කලා මණ්ඩලය සහ රාජ්ය සාහිත්ය අනුමණ්ඩලය...
The hosts recommend art works about entering a new phase of life, what to read while serving in the military, and the best songs for lulling a baby to sleep.
You can, of course, learn the Greek language as it’s spoken today. You can also learn Greek as it was spoken in antiquity — and as it was, until fairly recently in historical time, taught to students in the modern West. But it’s a fairly different endeavor again to learn Greek as Homer spoke it. […]
“What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?” asked Kurt Vonnegut in his autobiography Palm Sunday. His answer? His master’s thesis in anthropology for the University of Chicago, “which was rejected because it was so simple and looked like too much fun.” The elegant simplicity and playfulness of Vonnegut’s idea is exactly its enduring […]
The author of the short story collection _Fat Swim_ discusses fatphobia in literary fiction, the Ozempic era, and why friction might just save us...
The author, actor, and TV creator sounds off on the vulnerability industrial complex, his “scam” of a first memoir, and his open relationship, as his new essay collection _Inspiration Porn_ hits bookshelves...
A quiet conversation at the Kingsmead Book Fair became a reflection on shrinking attention spans, digital culture and the fragile future of reading
A stunning manuscript containing the full extent of the King Arthur legend, embossed with sumptuous illustrations, is going up for auction at Christie’s. One of three such copies known—all of which remain in private collections—the Lebaudy Manuscript contains 126 illustrations, a unique story of the wizard Merlin disguising himself as a stag, and enjoys an […]
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On Thursday, May 21, 2026, the Kansas City Public Library(Central Branch) hosted author A'Lelia Bundles in a discussion of her newest book, "Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance".