Vanity Fair
Bernie Sanders on Trump’s AI Slop Storm and Why You Should Run for Office
David Cross Doesn’t Care If He Offends You
Esquire
A Girl’s-Eye View of What’s Happening in Iran
Annie Proulx Is Done Fighting Climate Change. Now, She’s Adapting To It
Emily Wilson Wants to Make Your Cry
For Shokoofeh Azar, “Final Victory Against the Islamic Republic is Very Close”
Don Winslow Saw Right Through Our Mafia President
How Don Winslow Turns Ancient Mythology Into Contemporary Crime Thrills
Washington Post
Elena Kostyuchenko: “Fascism can grow on every soil. No one is immune.”
Bao Ninh on Coming to Terms with Tramau in Vietnam
Orhan Pamuk: “First, survive. Don’t rush to jail. Then, write.”
Maria Stepanova on Russian censors: ‘At some point, they’ll start jailing each other’
Olga Ravn on Putting Everything into “My Work”
Paul Theroux on where the future George Orwell got some of his strongest ideas
Bret Easton Ellis Talks About His New Sincerity and “The Shards”
Publishers Weekly
Elif Shafak on José Saramago and Mathias Énard on Marcel Proust
Neko Case on Angela Carter and Chris Kraus on Chester Himes
Ada Limón on Emily Dickinson and Rickey Laurentiis on Wallace Stevens
Téa Obreht on Daphne du Maurier and Kevin Young on Lucille Clifton
Jess Walter on Charles Portis and Jonathan Lethem on James Salter
Madeleine Thien on Y-Dang Troeung
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on Thích Nhất Hạnh and Karl Marlantes on Leo Tolstoy
Colum McCann on John Berger and Torrey Peters on Halldor Laxness
Charlotte Wood on William Maxwell and Laila Lalami on Franz Kafka
Ben Okri on Christopher Okigbo and Katie Kitamura on Natalia Ginzburg
Rumaan Alam on Anita Brookner and Tommy Orange on Felisberto Hernández
Mosab Abu Toha on Mahmoud Darwish and Thuận on Trần Dần
China Miéville on Jane Gaskell and Keanu Reeves on Cormac McCarthy
Paul Theroux on George Orwell and Ferdia Lennon on James Joyce
Jennifer Egan on Edith Wharton and Jinwoo Chong on John Okada
Emily St. John Mandel on Irène Némirovsky and Sarah Rose Etter on Tove Ditlevson
Roxane Gay on Marguerite Duras and Kaveh Akbar on Amos Tutuola
Lois Lowry on Flannery O’Connor and Helen Phillips on Italo Calvino
Valeria Luiselli on Juan Rulfo and Mauro Javier Cárdenas on Leonora 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
Al Jazeera
The US soldiers returning to Vietnam in search of mass graves
Mexico City is sinking, running out of water: How can it be saved?
Lives on the line: Low pay has US wildland firefighters quitting
How one Mexican beach town saved itself from ‘death by tourism’
Bowie’s Berlin: Up against the wall
The dark side of William Burroughs, wife killer behind Daniel Craig’s Queer
‘Living to death’: Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Gaza’s trauma, one year on
Ai Weiwei and the lost backpack: A Chinese exile’s brush with bureaucracy
Brutality of oppression: Ai Weiwei speaks on Gaza, China and New York City
We must ‘rehumanise ourselves’: Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour
In 1975, thousands of babies were daringly airlifted from the Vietnam War
Growing mushroom houses on the moon? NASA’s fungus-filled plan
California water wars: A century of wrangling over Los Angeles’s water
Leaving a permanent record of humanity on the moon – in 100 billion pixels
The Believer
A Microinterview with Kevin Young
Afar
Exploring Hunter Thompson’s Colorado
The Observer
The Provocative and Risqué Rise of Painter Fabian Cháirez
Gianluca Costantini Is Using Art to Change the World
Rolling Stone
The Never-Ending Psychedelic Trip of Michael Pollan
‘I’ll Admit I Blew It’: Michael Richards Talks Kramer, Vietnam, and That Racist Outburst
Scientific American
Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms: An Interview with Paul Stamets
National Geographic
Carthage was Rome’s greatest rival. Go see its side of the story
Seattle is a city best explored by bike
The BBC
In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses: How fungi can be used to clean up pollution
A Oaxacan chef’s guide to the best of Oaxaca City’s street food
The Daily Beast
Marjane Satrapi Says ‘a Banned Book … Is a Good Book’
Jennifer Egan Leads a Tour of Her Latest Fractured Fairytale
Hernan Diaz Takes Aim at Our Myths About Cowboys and Tycoons
Lisa Taddeo: “People Who Present Depravity Are Most Often Just More Honest”
Claire Dederer: If We Cancel Michael Jackson, Must We Cancel ‘Thriller’ Too?
Chloe Cooper Jones: She’s Been Disabled Her Whole Life – You Can Keep Your Pity
Joyce Lee: Frauds Keep Selling This South Korean Artist’s Surrealist Erotica as Scam NFTs
Adia Victoria Wrote a Hit Blues Record While Working in an Amazon Factory
The Los Angeles Times
Why Tim O’Brien’s first novel in 20 years is about America’s ‘mythomania’
Index on Censorship
The Millions
Álvaro Enrigue Won’t Romanticize Mexican History
Nautilus
Don’t We Belong to Nature? – Interview w/ Karl Ove Knausgaard
Scientists Are People Too – with Alan Lightman
Can Embracing the Unknown Save Us From Dystopia? – with Daniel H. Wilson
The Philosophy of Tyranny with James Romm
The Evolution of…Everything with Mark Vellend
The Dark Underbelly of the Near Future: Q&A with Helen Phillips
Pico Iyer’s Wide-Awake Silence
Life in an Atmospheric Zoo: Q&A with Carl Zimmer
The Importance of Muscle: Q&A with Michael Joseph Gross
The Serious Moonlight
Author Karl Marlantes Says Every Generation Must Renew the Fight Against Fascism
Novelist Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits and the Point of History
Latinxfuturist Poet Vincent Toro Wants to Toto the Technopoly’s Wizard of Oz
Living Life Fearless
We Haven’t Been Listening to Enough Vibraphonists: An Interview with Patricia Brennan
Guillermo Gómez-Peña: “Does Hope Put You at Odds with the State?”