ProfileYou Are Going to Die: A Profile of Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman has become an unlikely self-help guru by reminding everyone of their mortality.
ProfileThe Second Coming of Miranda July: A Cover Story
A cover-story profile of Miranda July on reinvention, appetite, and All Fours.
ProfileA Profile of Catherine Lacey
A writer invents the ultimate fun-house novel for her exploration of biography and art.
ProfileLucy Liu: At Face Value
In Issue 10 of Mother Tongue, writer @hillarylouisekelly meets the inimitable @lucyliu, and encounters a woman at the height of her…
ProfileWoman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: a Profile of Mary Bronstein
The daring director on her unabashed new motherhood film, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
ProfileCloser to Fine: A Profile of Amanda Knox
“Before spending the day with Amanda Knox, I’d never met someone about whom I had already been told so many untrue things,” writes…
ProfileHanif Kureishi's Relentlessly Revealing Memoir
How a tragic accident helped the author find his rebellious voice again
ProfileThis Woman's Work: A Profile of Olga Ravn
A profile of the Danish novelist whose books make motherhood and work strange again.
ProfileHilary Mantel Thinks the Last Book is Her Best: An Interview
“I’ve always been very ambitious. But it’s more in my own terms than in other people’s terms.”
ProfileRivka Galchen's Unsettling Powers: A Profile
Her new novel is about a vicious, real-life witch hunt—and she somehow still managed to make it funny.
ProfileIn Case of Emergency, Read Olivia Laing: A Profile
From The Lonely City to Funny Weather, the author writes to find a path forward through pain.
ProfileThe Disaster Artist: A Profile of Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven is speaking to our pandemic-frenzied moment. Her new book is even bleaker.
ProfileJenny Offill Wrote the Perfect Worry Novel: A Profile
In Weather, the author takes us through the Five Stages of Climactic Grief.
ProfileWhat's Scarier Than Motherhood?: A Profile of Helen Phillips
In Helen Phillips’s The Need, a parent’s nightmares take the form of a home intruder — who looks exactly like her.
ProfileSusan Choi Complicates the Plot: A Profile
How rage and the Access Hollywood tape inspired this spring’s most inventive and polarizing novel.
ProfileThe Bookstore That Became the Face of a Movement
A.N. Devers opened the Second Shelf to change how we talk about (and pay for) rare books by women.