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After a four-decade career that has helped change the conversation about race and gender in America, Toni Morrison still has plenty left to say.

Interview Magazine MAY 2012

Heidi Julavits

The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits

Interview Magazine APRIL 2012

Jonathan Galassi

Jonathan Galassi finds his world.

Interview Magazine APRIL 2012

Michael Alig

In the early '90s, he was the king of the New York club kids. Then the night came crashing down

- Interview

Patti Smith

A rock god and the definition of real in New York

- Interview

Roman Polanski

The notorious director has made some of Hollywood's most compelling films outside of the Hollywood machine

- Interview

Anjelica Huston

The actress has blazed a trail of twisted, darker performances that haunt to this day

- Interview

Michael Stipe

For more than three decades, R.E.M. has been one of the most perpetually forward-thinking bands in rock. The lead singer is now ready to do a little looking back.

- Interview

Art Lives

On-the-make art talents tell how they work, what inspires them, and what really pisses them off

VMAN 3

Barry Friedman and Marc Benda

Two gallerest have helped turn a nonexistent American collecting market into one that's increasingly on the level with fine art

06/1/2007 - I.D. Magazine

Brad Pitt

This fall he stars as America's favorite outlaw. But in real life he's only playing the good guy

V Magazine

Chloe Sevigny

An interview with the New York actress

Spring 2008 - Uniqlo

Drew Berrymore

You’ve known Drew Berrymore since she was six. Prepare for the actress everyone loves to show a side no one’s ever seen

08/2006 - V Magazine

Ed Ruscha

Interview with iconic Los Angeles painter Ed Ruscha on California then and now

3/1/2006 - The Believer

Emile de Antonio

The radical documentarian caught the conspiracies and crosshairs of the 1960s and 70s

V Magazine

Eric Fischl

Interview with New York bad-boy painter Eric Fischl

12/01/04 - The Believer

Gwen Stefani

For the past 17 years, she has stood as the punk siren of the band No Doubt. But there is more to Gwen Stafani's platinum blonde life than meets the eye. There's her fashion line, her acting career, and her first solo dance album with a little help from some music-industry heavies

V Magazine V31

Gardar Eide Einarsson

The Norwegian artist is one of the sharpest critics of macho American youth culture

Sep-08 - INVERVIEW

Heathers

The high school black comedy that killed the cool kids and made Winona Ryder a star. Director Michael Lehmann recounts the making of Heathers

V Magazine

Patrik Ervell

Patrik Ervell is a menswear designer in the very best American sportswear tradition

Fantastic Man

Benjamin Kunkel

Writer Benjamin Kunkel’s first novel, Indecision, is a trip where many questions are asked and few decisions get made

V Magazine

Edmund White

On the release of his memoir My Lives, the iconic gay writer Edmund White proves he can lie down with the past and have amazing sex with the present

V Magazine 40

Joan Didion

Joan Didion chronicled the 20th century like no other American writer. Now she's starting on the 21st.

V Magazine

John Ashbery

Interview with the great living poet of the New York School

V Magazine

Jonathan Lethem

Writer Jonathan Lethem takes on new territory in his latest novel—the love and stumbles of a young California rock band

V Magazine V46

Reena Spaulings

The ultimate New York novel turned on its head by Bernadette Corporation

ARTFORUM OCT2005

Rick Moody

In his latest story collection, Brooklyn writer Rick Moody envisions a terrifying landscape where New York is annihilated and a new drug takes over what's left. It's a brave new world that only Moody could spin

V Magazine V47

Your Friends and Neighbors

They sleep right under you. Enjoy the same restaurants. Use the same street. But that's okay, because you live in their city. In his latest book, writer Robert Sullivan examines the darker, dirties, trash-strewn history of rats in America—one tail at a time

V Magazine V28

Errol Morris

The documentary filmmaker on how he investigates the scene of the crime

- V Magazine

Gore Vidal

American's most unflinching biographer recalls scenes from his last forty years

- V Magazine

Alex Gibney

An interview with the director on the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson

- V Magazine

Mary-Kate Olsen

The actress is no longer a co-star in her own life.

- Interview Magazine

Bret Easton Ellis

One of literature's most controversial stars heads back to Los Angeles

- Interview

Martin Amis

The ultimate rogue British novelist won't stop saying what he thinks. And what he thinks about is an honest worldview.

- Interview

Nathan Englander

Three's a charm for Nathan Englander. A quick wit may come naturally to the 42-year-old native New Yorker, but that doesn't mean he doesn't work hard.

Interview Magazine

Dennis Cooper

Speaking in tongues with Dennis Cooper.

Interview Magazine

Jonathan Safran Foer

What can a 24-year-old guy barely out of college possible have to teach us about love, life, and loss? In Jonathan Safran Foer's stunning literary debut, everything is illuminated

V Magazine V17

Keith Gessen

Writer Keith Gessen's first book of fiction is the tough side of intellectual idealism

V Magazine V52

Fighting Words

Writer Moses Isegawa charts love and violence in his native Uganda one warlord at a time

V Magazine

Nate Lowman

Nate Lowman snatches bumper stickers, newspaper headlines, and photos found in the trash for aggressive art productions

VMAN 5

Norman Mailer

An interview with the ultimate American writer before they became extinct

V Magazine

Salman Rushdie

Some writers are national treasures. Salman Rushdie is an international necessity. From his days in hiding to his life above ground in New York, Rushdie doesn't write about one big world. He writes about all of them

V Magazine

Sean Wilsey

How can a man all of 35 pen a memoir that shakes the entire city of San Francisco? Writer Sean Wilsey's autobiography is a glorious read far stranger than fiction

V Magazine 35

Susan Choi

In her latest novel, writer Susan Choi tackles the explosive nature of paranoia and blame delivered Unabomber-style

1/1/2008 - V Magazine 51

Vendela Vida

Writer Vendela Vida has a talent for getting into the minds of her subjects. In her debut novel she takes the lead of one young woman and holds a gun to it

V Magazine V24

Rivington Arms

Budweiser and champagne: an interview with Melissa Bent and Mirabelle Mardin

Perfect Magazine

Robert Altman

Legendary director Robert Altman changed American cinema in the 1970s and in so doing changed the way we look at the stories of our own lives

V Magazine

Your Friends and Neighbors

V Magazine V28

Salman Rushdie

V Magazine

Sean Wilsey

How can a man all of 35 pen a memoir that shakes the entire city of San Francisco? Writer Sean Wilsey's autobiography is a glorious read far stranger than fiction

V Magazine 35

Susan Choi

In her latest novel, writer Susan Choi tackles the explosive nature of paranoia and blame delivered Unabomber-style

1/1/2008 - V Magazine 51

Taryn Simon

The young New York photographer shoots a lot of American secrets

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Tom Savini

Horror movie stars aren't only made by running from knife-weilding maniacs in front of the camera. Special effects makeup artist Tom Savini is responsible for some of the most horrifying gore in modern cinema

V Magazine

Vendela Vida: Vendela Vida

Writer Vendela Vida has a talent for getting into the minds of her subjects. In her debut novel she takes the lead of one young woman and holds a gun to it

V Magazine V24