Kara Walker by Matthea Harvey

Walker’s charged antebellum imagery has engendered heated debate. Poet Matthea Harvey charts the personal and historical sources of its provocation.

Mamma Andersson by Christian Hawkey

Brooklyn poet Christian Hawkey and Swedish painter Mamma Andersson begin this correspondence with a rumination on memory, architecture, and turtles.

Péter Nádas by Davis Kovacs

Susan Sontag called A Book of Memories “the greatest novel written in our time.” With the first English translation of his new book, Fire and Knowledge, Nádas reflects on the synchronism of differences.

Howard Norman by Susan Shreve

The celebrated author of The Bird Artist — an intrepid traveler and award-winning translator of Native American and Inuit folktales — discusses his latest novel, Devotion.

Béla Tarr by Fionn Meade

With recent DVD releases of his films and a Cannes premiere this spring, the legendary Hungarian filmmaker has morphed from rebel outsider into cult auteur. The Man from London premieres this fall at the 44th New York Film Festival.

Benedict Mason by George Steel

The postmodern composer’s gleeful, spatialized works orchestrate invented instruments inside, outside, and all around the theater. A brilliant manipulation of form and perception.

Kate Valk by David Salle and Sarah French

National treasure Kate Valk, on her acting life with the famed Wooster Group, their interpretation of Hamlet, and channeling the ghosts of legends. Part of the Select Equity Group Series on Theater.

Joe Zucker by Chuck Close

The painters, friends from the old days, discuss craft and the American way—an oral history ranging from basketball to the nature of art.

Robbie Conal by Steve Earle

Nicola López by Trevor Paglen

Pam Lins by Rochelle Feinstein

More Zeus Bits by Anne Carson

In My Yoke Skirt by Diane Williams

Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women by Ambar Past and Various Artists

With contributions by Mikaela Días Días, Xpetra Ernándes, Sluz Hernández, Manwela Kokoroch, Rosa López Kómes, Loxa Jiménes Lópes, Roselia Montoya, Xunka’ Utz’utz Ni’, Antel Péres Ok’il, Munda Tostón, María Tzu, and María Xila

The Life Room by Jill Bialosky

Dorchie by Ed Park

What Happened Between Us by Rivka Galchen