“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.

The Real Fiction is Life: An Interview with James Purdy

In 1986, the writer Vince Aletti secured an interview with one of his literary icons, the novelist and short story writer James Purdy, then 72. The full conversation is published here for the first time.

The pleasures of identity

"In a better world, [Edmund White] would have been a professor in Gay Studies" - Blake Smith and Tae-ho Kim in conversation

Under the Skin

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