At the literate lens, Sarah Coleman interviews artist Maggie Meiners on her stunning, modern recreations of classic Norman Rockwell paintings.

Nariman and her mother Khadijah fled Aleppo, Syria, two years ago, and now live in a collective shelter in Lebanon. They describe — and mourn — the Syria that was, and hope for the Syria that will be.

Data scientist Cathy O’Neil comments on how algorithms — “under the guise of math, fairness, and objectivity — reinforce and magnify the old biases and power dynamics that we hoped they would eliminate.”

At Longreads, Jessica Gross talks with author and behavioral economist Dan Ariely about understanding how humans behave from the ground up.

An interview with Paul Beatty — the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for his book, The Sellout.

The Brevity Podcast is now on the air! The first episode features interviews and readings from bestselling author Dani Shapiro and Brevity author and Pushcart Prize nominee Thaddeus Gunn.

College campuses are once again humming with life — what better time to revisit our Q&A with writer and blogger Rebecca Schuman, an outspoken critic of the American university?

Whether you’re going back to school or graduated years ago, you’ll enjoy this stick-figure-filled conversation with Math with Bad Drawings blogger and UK-based math teacher Ben Orlin.

“It’s one thing to cover a field by writing about new papers in a piecemeal way, and another to spend over a year truly understanding it.” Matt Shipman interviews science writer Ed Yong on writing and microbial life.

At REORIENT, Sarah Aziza engages Sayed Kashua in a wide-ranging conversation on identity, exile, and being an Arab author writing in Hebrew.

“We are heading toward the end game.” At Deadline, Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss discuss the show’s future — and the season that just ended — in a wide-ranging (spoiler-rich) interview.

“Classical harmony is about balance and things moving in contrary motion, but rave harmony is about euphoric richness — it has a brazen quality in the way it moves.” UK cellist and producer Oliver Coates discusses his album, Upstepping, which is “pumped up body music” made with distorted cello sounds.

“I’ll keep on traveling as long as I can.” Writer-designer Cassie McDaniel interviews her mom, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, on her life and evolving perspective.

Roxane Gay on the dissonances of feminism: “That dissonance between what we enjoy and what we know is a fraught place. We have to encourage the creators to be better, to stay true to their work while also respecting women.”

An interview with the “miraculous Mr. Hai,” an infamous, one-armed, durian-farming guitarist from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.