articles by

Aaron Hicklin

09.03.2024 by Aaron Hicklin

“I don’t know what thinking is except imagining stories.”

Helen Phillips, the author of Hum, on a mother’s primal love, and the perfidy (and promise) of AI.

03.20.2024 by Aaron Hicklin

The Great Escape

How Thomas Allen Crafts New Tales from Old Pulp

02.26.2024 by Aaron Hicklin

When Lucy Sante left her “pathetic ex-husband.”

Post-transition, the newly-confident author of Low Life has lost her hangdog expression but not her sharp, critical wit or shrewdness.

12.12.2023 by Aaron Hicklin

Everything is OK. Everything is not OK.

Etgar Keret talks with Helen Phillips on not being enslaved by hatred, salvaging our dignity through humor, and the heartache of being a parent.

10.01.2023 by Aaron Hicklin

It’s immoral to be apolitical

"There is no mystery in the Russian soul; they want to suffer, they thrive on it, and they want us to suffer." - Victoria Amelina (1986-2023)

09.28.2023 by Aaron Hicklin

Exploring Queer Voices

Celebrating LGBT History Month Through Literature with The Community Spirit Vodka

09.13.2023 by Aaron Hicklin

Dacha Dreaming

A new book celebrates Russia's Summer Fix for the Heat and Grime of City Life

09.03.2023 by Aaron Hicklin

Russell Banks: Where I Write

The late author, two-time Pulitzer-finalist, on his sugar shack in the Adirondack wilderness

08.15.2023 by Aaron Hicklin

Under the Skin

The artist Miles Greenberg and the writer Amber Later on creating avatars in fiction and in art.

08.14.2023 by Aaron Hicklin

“I’m someone who is very like a sponge, but I don’t soak up the bullshit.”

In this 2000 interview, published for the first time, Sinead O'Connor talks about using her music to channel rage, communicating with the dead, and why she doesn't believe in gay or straight.

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