Esquire

Interview: Annie Proulx Is Done Fighting Climate Change. Now, She’s Adapting To It

Interview: Emily Wilson Wants to Make Your Cry

Interview: For Shokoofeh Azar, “Final Victory Against the Islamic Republic is Very Close”

Interview: Don Winslow Saw Right Through Our Mafia President

How Don Winslow Turns Ancient Mythology Into Contemporary Crime Thrills

Washington Post

Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Tim O’Brien, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Karl Marlantes: 4 Acclaimed Novelists Talk About Writing Vietnam

Bao Ninh on Coming to Terms with Trauma in Vietnam

Olga Ravn on Putting Everything into “My Work”

Interview with Elena Kostyuchenko: “Fascism can grow on every soil. No one is immune.”

Interview with Orhan Pamuk: “First, survive. Don’t rush to jail. Then, write.”

Paul Theroux on where the future George Orwell got some of his strongest ideas

Interview: Bret Easton Ellis Talks About His New Sincerity and “The Shards”

Publishers Weekly

Roxane Gay on Marguerite Duras and Kaveh Akbar on Amos Tutuola

Valeria Luiselli on Juan Rulfo and Mauro Javier Cárdenas on Lenora Carrington

Olga Ravn on Doris Lessing and Karl Ove Knausgård on Jorge Luis Borges

Chuck Palahniuk on Ira Levin and Claire Dederer on Laurie Colwin

Rolling Stone

Interview: The Never-Ending Psychedelic Trip of Michael Pollan

Al Jazeera

Brutality of oppression: Ai Weiwei speaks on Gaza, China and New York City

We must ‘rehumanise ourselves’: Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour

The Daily Beast

‘Persepolis’ Author Says ‘a Banned Book … Is a Good Book’

Interview with Jennifer Egan: Jennifer Egan Leads a Tour of Her Latest Fractured Fairytale

Interview with Hernan Diaz: Hernan Diaz Takes Aim at Our Myths About Cowboys and Tycoons

Interview with Claire Dederer: If We Cancel Michael Jackson, Must We Cancel ‘Thriller’ Too?

Interview with Lisa Taddeo: “People Who Present Depravity Are Most Often Just More Honest”

Interview with Chloe Cooper Jones: She’s Been Disabled Her Whole Life – You Can Keep Your Pity

Interview with Joyce Lee: Frauds Keep Selling This South Korean Artist’s Surrealist Erotica as Scam NFTs

Interview: Adia Victoria Wrote a Hit Blues Record While Working in an Amazon Factory

Michael Pollan Does Drugs–and You Probably Do Too

The Observer

The Provocative and Risqué Rise of Painter Fabian Cháirez

The Art of Mexico City, Both On and Off the Beaten Path

The Los Angeles Times

Interview: Why Tim O’Brien’s first novel in 20 years is about America’s ‘mythomania’

Afar

Exploring Hunter Thompson’s Colorado

The Millions

‘Oh God, The Sun Goes’ Is Strange, Surreal, and Utterly Sincere

At Long Last, a Translation Worthy of ‘Pedro Páramo’

Salon

Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn’t actually write Westerns

The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image

Nautilus

The Creeping Techno-Horror of Benjamin Labatut’s the MANIAC

ArtNews

Mexico’s Best-Kept Secret is Zacatecas’s Vibrant Art Scene

What Art Loves Should See in Mexico City, One of the World’s Top Art Destinations

Amsterdam Museum Guide: 7 Must-Visit Venues in the Dutch Capital and Beyond

Thrillist

Henry Miller Memorial Library: This One-of-a-Kind Bookstore Is Hidden in the Forest of Big Sur

Living Life Fearless

We Haven’t Been Listening to Enough Vibraphonists: An Interview with Patricia Brennan

Fear of and Loathing for the Democrats: Hunter S. Thompson Pointed Out Their Mistakes in ’72 — They Didn’t Learn

Abuse and “A Weird Almost-Therapy Session” with Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L

War and Peace: Why Reading Literary Behemoths Needs to Become a Thing Again

Sickeningly Familiar: How Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’ Hits Way Too Close to Home

How Horror Reflects Reality: What Kinds of Movies Will Emerge from Covid-19?

The Ideal Art for the End of the World: Artistic Suggestions Inspired by Catastrophe

Cinema Is Alive and Well: The Top 10 Films of the 2010s

The Failure of ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ Proved the Pitfalls of Meta-Entertainment

Isolation on Film: How ‘Jaws’, ‘The Shining’, and ‘The Thing’ Make You Feel Alone

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ has a Representation Problem

50+ Years of Neil Young: What Artists Can Learn from the Godfather of Grunge

2020 Oscar Reactions: Where They Got It Right and Wrong (and Who Should Win)

The Return of Rage: The Influences and Influence of Rage Against the Machine

What Can Modern “Digital Nomads” Learn from the 1944 Classic Novel ‘The Razor’s Edge’?

In this Age of Political Correctness Let’s Remember the Delightful Obscenity of Henry Miller

‘The Testaments’: Margaret Atwood’s Sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Brings Gilead to Our Times

Convince Me I’m Wrong: John Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’ Is the Greatest Novel of All Time

Critics Don’t Get It: ‘Joker’ Continues the Tradition of Film Tapping into Popular Rage

RIP: The Devil in Daniel Johnston Finally Sleeps

Interview with Guillermo Gómez-Peña: “Does Hope Put You at Odds with the State?”

Anthony Bourdain: A Belated Obituary to a Working Class Hero

Michael Crichton—One of the Greatest Science Writers Ever—Was a Mystical Weirdo: Should You Be Too?

Is Evolution Attempting to Correct Post-Modern Mistakes with this “Trump” Era?… Ken Wilber Thinks So

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: How the West Wove Violence into the American Psyche

How to Change Your Mind (and Maybe the World): Michael Pollan Explains the New Psychedelic Revolution

Scared of Our Own Shadow: ‘Groundhog Day’ Is a Sneaky Discourse on Buddhism

A Prescription for Better Living: The Stoic Philosophy of Bill & Ted

Marvin Gaye’s New Album Is the Music We Need for Troubled Times

Radical Community, the Yoga of Sex, and Magic Mushrooms: the Relevant Prescriptions of Aldous Huxley’s ‘Island’

I’m an Art Snob Who Gave the MCU a Chance (and So Should You)

David Lynch Brings Back the Strange and Wonderful With Twin Peaks: the Return

Sometimes Artists Get Worse (But Sometimes We Should Love Them Anyways): the Misfits–A Case Study

Fleabag, Killing Eve, and Now Star Wars: Meet Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Sam Elliott Might Be the Greatest Living (Under-the-Radar) Actor

The French Writer Who Beat the MCU by 200 Years

For Amateur Art Appreciateurs: 7 Tips for Getting the Most Out of an Art Museum

We Must Cultivate Our Garden: How to Support the Artists You Love

From Bowie to Bay, Papa to 2Pac: Do Posthumous Releases Ruin Legacies?

Smart Music for All: Adia Victoria Leaves the High Art/Low Art Duality Behind

How the Rocky Series has (Almost Always) Done It Right

When Art Predicts the Future: How an 80 Year Old Novel Foretold of Trump

Time to Heal Our Women: When Hip Hop Goes Feminist 

A Brief Guide to Troublemaking Artists Who Have Called Paris Home

Greatist

My Successful Failure and 5 Lessons It Taught Me About the Creative Process

The Manual

Book review: Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

Book review: So to Speak and Watch Your Language by Terrance Hayes

The most exciting new book releases for the rest of 2023

The Best Short Stories Ever Written

The Greatest Vietnam War Books Ever Written

Looper

The untold truth of Bong Joon-ho

War movie scenes that went too far

Great movies we can’t believe are turning 40 in 2020

Find many more on my Looper author profile

Vice

Spanish Bombs: Granada Unveils Joe Strummer Plaza

Your Favorite Band: Tom Waits

MVRemix

Album Review: Sightings – Future Accidents

Album Review: WhoMadeWho – Knee Deep

Album Review: the Black Lips – Arab Mountain

Album Review: Liturgy – Aesthethica