In his 90th year, L.A.’s finest living writer discusses his heroes and inspirations, the anti-gay and anti-Mexican prejudices he’s weathered and the wisdom accrued over a miraculous life.

A spoiler-filled interview with the creator of The White Lotus.

Tressie McMillan Cottom on confronting racism, sexism, and classism.

“This is the remarkable, true story of a rich white male celebrity who abused his power and then apologized for it.”

An interview with the actor.

On pregnancy at 45, childbirth, postpartum depression, and #MeToo.

An interview gone awry.

An interview with Cobain a few months after the release of In Utero.

An interview with Maurice Sendak.

An interview with Solange.

A conversation between Eminem and Elton John.

Deep Throat, unmasked.

“Your dreams always have to be big. And mine were huge.”

An 11-hour conversation about “well, just about everything that’s ever been funny.”

"If I had been a straight-A student my whole life and had rapped about Jesus coming back to save us all, I wouldn’t get no media. The motherfuckers wouldn’t give a fuck about me. But since I’m telling the truth, and been through what I’m stressing and know what I’m talking about, I’m a threat."

"I’m not familiar with books on style. My role in the revival of Strunk’s book was a fluke—just something I took on because I was not doing anything else at the time. It cost me a year out of my life, so little did I know about grammar."

“It’s the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy. No time for reflection. No time to contract before another expansion. No time to grow up. No time to fuck up. No time to learn from your mistakes. But that notion goes against nature, which is cyclical.”

We have a rich literature. But sometimes it’s a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.

An interview with the novelist.

A conversation about God, anxiety, and the monkey.

“There are critics who see their job as to be on the side of the artist, or in a state of imaginative sympathy or alliance with the artist. I think it's important for a critic to be populist in the sense that we’re on the side of the public. I think one of the reasons is, frankly, capitalism. Whether you’re talking about restaurants or you’re talking about movies, you’re talking about large-scale commercial enterprises that are trying to sell themselves and market themselves and publicize themselves. A critic is, in a way, offering consumer advice.”

Emily and Kate wanted to have a baby together. They were more successful than they ever imagined.

What Gregg Popovich, 5-time NBA champion coach, looks for in players.

Talking with the most read—and most controversial—sex columnnist today.

“My mother kept scrapbooks of everything any of her children did all their lives, and among my scrapbooks are newspapers that I wrote on the typewriter at the age of six, The Hersey Family News, with ads offering my older brothers for various kinds of hard labor at very low wages.”