Interviews
Root Therapy
A conversation with Dr. Mindy Fullilove on restoring emotional ecosystems
Mindy Fullilove is a psychiatrist, researcher, and Professor of Urban Policy of Health currently teaching at the New School. Dr. Fullilove …
Humanizing Education
An interview with Antonia Dardes and Jeff Duncan-Andrade
Critical pedagogy is an emancipatory approach to education. The practice maintains that methods of teaching and learning must respond to the …
Said and Saying
A conversation with poet Ariana Reines
When I reach Ariana Reines on the phone, the first thing she asks me is where I’m calling from. It’s a …
Surveil the Surveillors
In Conversation with Glenn Greenwald
In 2013, Glenn Greenwald published a series of articles in the Guardian outlining the stunningly invasive and widespread data-collection tactics of …
Humble Abodes
In Conversation with Charles Simonds
In his 1976 fictive ethnographyThree Peoples, New York-based sculptor Charles Simonds imagined the building practices of three civilizations governed by different …
Points of View
An Interview with Chang-rae Lee
It’s hard to believe that Chang-rae Lee fell into writing by accident and as a second career. He possesses a unique …
Grey Area
In Conversation with David Rohde
Twice-captured and twice the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, David Rohde has had a treacherous yet accomplished career in journalism. Starting …
INFECTIOUS
A Conversation with James Hoff
Over the past decade, the New York-based conceptual artist James Hoff has distributed his work as paintings, LPs, cufflinks, used hard …
VOICES ON THE GROUND
A Conversation with Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is perhaps better at asking questions than anyone else in the media. Goodman is founder and primary host of …
COMIC RELIEF
A conversation with Providence Comic Consortium’s Walker Mettling
Providence is a great city for certain things—coffee milk, noise music, gruesome bike vs. pothole accidents, and notably, indie comics and …
SPOKES IN THE WHEEL
A Conversation with DARE's Fred Ordoñez
Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) is a grassroots community organizing force based on the southside of Providence. Through door-knocking, …
AN EGALITARIAN TUMOR
Talking with Umberto Crenca
In downtown Providence, at the intersection of Washington and Empire Streets, stands AS220, a popular bar, restaurant, and performance space. AS220 …
New Windows
A Conversation with Rebecca Traister
Every time Rebecca Traister sees someone wearing a “THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE” T-shirt, she feels a rush of …
Mundane Reasons
Emailing with Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis lives in a converted schoolhouse in upstate New York. When I think of her, I think of her perched …
Take It as It Comes
An interview with lo-fi legend R. Stevie Moore
Before there were hipsters in faded t-shirts digging through garage sales for vintage tube amps, before kids swiped their grandparents record …
Side with the Seed
A conversation with Spencer Tweedy
“Is this a strictly bandmate relationship, or do you ever have to say, ‘don’t make me pull this tour bus over?’” …
Making Space
an Interview with Yellow Peril Gallery Owners Robert Stack and Vanphouthon Souvannasane
To get to Yellow Peril Gallery, you take the ninety-two bus west, passing through downtown Providence and Federal Hill. Get off …
Web Exclusive: Interview with Holly Herndon
Editor’s note: This unexcerpted interview accompanies “Holding Notes: thinking through St. Vincent and Holly Herndon” from Issue 5. The biographical information …
Foreign Wallpaper
A conversation with translator Susan Bernofsky
Translators do many things. Sometimes they search their own language for a choice phrase in an attempt to capture the beauty …
City and State
A Conversation with Ted Nesi
The following is an extended version of an interview that appeared in print on February 7, 2014. It has been edited …
Understand the People, Understand Ourselves
an interview with Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is a writer working across various forms, but it feels relatively safe to say that the conversation is her …
Courtside Couture
A Conversation with James Goldstein
James Goldstein condenses every popular conception about Los Angeles into one human body: He lives in a glass house atop the …
Moving Through the World, Mostly Drunk, Looking for Pleasure
A Conversation with Brad Neely
A wounded Confederate soldier sprawls and bleeds across a corpse-strewn comic panel. To his dead comrade: “You probably don’t want to …
I Need to Worry Less About You
an interview with Miranda July
Miranda July is a multi-disciplinarian working as director, actress, visual and performing artist, and writer. She has a digital art piece …
In Love with Storytelling
An Interview with Jeffrey Eugenides
You can buy a copy of The Marriage Plot at Cable Car. Jeffrey Eugenides B ‘83’s third novel came out in …
Polar Opposites
A Conversation with David Longstreth of the Dirty Projectors
[start hero][end hero] David Longstreth’s songs don’t explain him; they imitate him. The creative force and leader of The Dirty Projectors, …
Specters of Thatcher
Police State Magic
“The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.” – Aleister Crowley Former …
Quebec Student Strike
After a winter semester of massive student strikes and repressive government reaction, Quebec university life may finally be returning to normal. …
What The Fuck?
in 2009, standup comedian Marc Maron was fired from the radio and media network Air America after it cancelled his political …
Bored St. George
What to make of Georges Bataille? In 1930, André Breton said that he was “psychasthenic,” that he had a “conscience deficit,” …
STOCKHOLM STIGMA
"Do you want a Hitler mustache?”Such was the offering to attendees of a political festival in Sweden last summer, where protestors …
Tunisia's Triumph
One Tunisian street vendor self-immolated in December, and thousands responded in revolution; one dictator was disposed of in January, and millions …
Frankly, Somewhat Pro-Pun
There are four kinds of people in this world. There are those who do not yet know Frank Lesser. Then there …
Police, Millionaire’s Tax, Tim Geithner, and Mace
A week ago, NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna pepper sprayed 23 year old Jeanne Mansfield and two other women in the …
Brick-o-lage
A Conversation with a Lego ArtistTo be deemed a master Lego builder, you must first make a sphere out of the …