| | |  Illustrations by Lauren Tamaki and Jules Julien Last week, we published our first all-digital issue, a series of long-form interviews with notable people like David Hockney and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Perhaps you are like me and are often shocked by the amount that you read and simply forget—entire novels, gone. But there’s something about a great interview, when the interlocutors achieve a kind of empathy and flow, that produces indelible details. I love the moment, for example, when Min Jin Lee describes how she reads the Bible by turning “every single freaking page” like Robert Caro. So—in this spirit of serendipity—I invite you to take another stroll through the interviews and see what holds you. —Michael Agger, culture editor, newyorker.com - Michael Luo spoke with the novelist Min Jin Lee about her Bible reading, her decision to quit law to become a writer, the perception of Asian Americans as being “highly competent,” and the story of a suicide that changed her life.
- “I went downtown every night. It was really like being an anthropologist, observing people and how they treat each other. People come here and they want things.” Jia Tolentino caught up with Candace Bushnell at the Carlyle.
- Stevie Nicks told Tavi Gevinson how she likes to relax: “When I have a little bit of time to myself, my Zen time at night after a show, I slice a plate of apples and I sit on my bed with as many favorite fashion magazines as I can find.”
- Watched any good sex scenes lately? Four critics—Doreen St. Félix, Naomi Fry, Alexandra Schwartz, and Vinson Cunningham—interview one another about the state of erotic life on screens large and small.
- “I started to dread things. Going outside was scary. I began spending more time in my room alone, sleeping a lot.” Joeli Valerio, eighteen, was one of a series of teen-agers who described their experiences during the pandemic for a Photo Booth.
- The painter David Hockney bought a house, rather suddenly, in France’s Normandy region. Françoise Mouly visited him there, where Hockney has been drawing the varying landscapes of the countryside on his iPad.
- “The best editors think like reporters. I believe deeply in reporting. I think reporting is, I don’t want to say endangered, but I think it’s under threat.” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the Times, is widely expected to retire this year. He sat down with Clare Malone to discuss his journalistic legacy.
- Patricia Lockwood, talking with Deborah Treisman, describes the high (and the hangover) of her time as a Twitter personality: “It feels incredible, it feels like you’re on fire, like you’re part of this communal creative fire. But then, after a while, it becomes rigid or concretized.”
- “So we secretly planned—it took a year of putting money aside. No one knew other than my mom, my dad, my mother’s mother, and my brother, who was living in Paris and was going to get me on the other side.” The African pop star Angélique Kidjo recounts how she escaped the dictatorship in Benin, in conversation with Julian Lucas.
- “If you’re trying to establish a musical mood, I’ll go and noodle at the piano, just noodle, and sometimes come up with something in the way of figure or a harmonic progression that seems like it’s the right feeling.” In the last years of Stephen Sondheim’s life, D. T. Max was able to intimately observe the composer’s creative process.
| | | |  The New Yorker Interview Stevie Nicks Is Still Living Her Dreams The rock-and-roll icon talks about style, spirits, and writing one of her best songs ever. By Tavi Gevinson |  The New Yorker Interview How Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helped Remake the Literary Canon The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told. By David Remnick | |  The New Yorker Interview David Hockney’s Fruitful Isolation From his home in Normandy, the eighty-four-year-old artist shows off a new series of portrait paintings and discusses all of the work he still has left to do. By Françoise Mouly |  The New Yorker Interview Patti Harrison Means It (Except When She Doesn’t) The rising star of comedy discusses “I Think You Should Leave,” corporatized wokeness, A.D.H.D., and humor that swerves between sarcasm and sincerity. By Rachel Syme | |  The New Yorker Interview The Sex Scene Is Dead. Long Live the Sex Scene Four critics discuss erotic thrillers, prosthetic penises, “Euphoria,” and the state of desire onscreen. By Alexandra Schwartz, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Doreen St. Félix |  The New Yorker Interview Dean Baquet Never Wanted to Be an Editor Ahead of his expected retirement, the Times’ executive editor reflects on his newsroom’s unprecedented growth, Twitter’s influence on journalism, and the time he punched a hole in a wall. By Clare Malone | |  The New Yorker Interview What Min Jin Lee Wants Us to See The author of “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires” discusses her research process, her memories of arriving in America, and why she reads the Bible before writing. By Michael Luo |  The New Yorker Interview Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an Insider Now? After three years in the halls of power, she’s seen the “shit show” up close—and hasn’t given up on her vision for how to change it. By David Remnick | | | | | | | | |
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