An interview with Allee Willis, the late songwriter behind Earth Wind & Fire’s “September” and the Friends theme song, on creating the world you want to live and work in and throwing virtual parties.

“This baby was unviable, basically. That’s what they say. They say that the baby is ‘incompatible with life.’”

On growing up in Hollywood, the cost of beating Oprah at the Oscars, and why Jack Nicholson doesn’t act anymore.

Interviews with a receptionist, a factory worker, and others about life on the job.

An interview with the novelist.

An interview with the comedian.

Nathan Phillips wants to talk about Covington.

An interview with James Baldwin on race in America.

A Q&A with Twitter’s CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he’d do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.

“Anytime I was called a New Journalist I winced a little with embarrassment.”

“The ‘hard’–science fiction writers dismiss everything except, well, physics, astronomy, and maybe chemistry. Biology, sociology, anthropology—that’s not science to them, that’s soft stuff. They’re not that interested in what human beings do, really. But I am. I draw on the social sciences a great deal. I get a lot of ideas from them, particularly from anthropology. When I create another planet, another world, with a society on it, I try to hint at the complexity of the society I’m creating, instead of just referring to an empire or something like that.”

“It takes this huge amount of will and energy for anything to happen to you.”

Six women tell their stories.

“By asking very simple questions, people have said the most astonishing things to me.”

“I’ve got these boxes of ideas and I’m starting to go through them to see if there’s any gold. “

Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.

The icon opens up about her mistakes, her family, and her journey to become a better person.

“There has to be some pleasure in this job, and that’s it. To go around in disguise. To act a character. To pass oneself off as what one is not. To pretend.”

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

Daniel Mallory Ortberg on coming out as trans.

An interview with Maurice Sendak.

Deep Throat, unmasked.

“I always walk away from an interview — no matter how well it went — knowing that there’s so much that I don’t know about that person.”

An interview with the activist.

Outkast’s Andre Benjamin at 42.

You gotta understand, I’ve only written one check in my life. When I was 17, they still had checkbooks, and my mom taught me how to write a check and do my balance. So I had one check on my balance, and then OutKast took off. I have not paid a bill since. People ask, What does it feel like? As humans, we want attention. We want to be validated. At the same time, it’s strange attention, and a lot of it. If you have an excess of anything, it becomes strange.