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Sayaka Murata Interview: A Creature In My Own Right
Meet one of Japan’s most striking young writers.Writer Sayaka Murata worked several years in a convenience store and wrote a best-selling novel about her...
Anupama Kundoo Interview: For Whom Are We Building
“If the architect is not social, then it’s not an architect.”In this short video the renowned Indian architect Anupama Kundoo underlines the close and...
Miriam Bäckström Interview: Life is the Real Theatre
When Miriam Bäckström was a child, her parents used her as a therapist for their relationship. Today, the renowned Swedish conceptual photographer and artist...
Ishiuchi Miyako Interview: Advice to the Young
“Advice is fine, but don’t listen to everything,” says the pioneering and award-winning Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako. In this short video, she argues that...
Domenico Starnone Interview: Books Must Hurt Us
“Books should have their own kernel of pleasure even when they’re terrifying and narrate terrifying things,” says the prizewinning Italian writer Domenico Starnone, who...
Álvaro Enrigue Interview: Advice to the Young
"Pursue it as if it were possible.” Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue – considered one of the most significant writers in contemporary Spanish-language literature – feels...
Lisa Halliday Interview: My Piece of Art
In this short video, the praised American writer Lisa Halliday shares her thoughts on a piece of music that has stayed with her since...
Mario Vargas Llosa Interview: Images vs Ideas
“We must be worried about what is happening in contemporary culture,” says Peruvian Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa (b.1936) in this short video addressing...
Yoko Tawada on Nobuo Sekine
The praised writer here muses on a sculpture by the pioneering Japanese sculptor and conceptual artist Nobuo Sekine: “Every morning you see your face...
Danh Vo on Tetsumi Kudo Interview
Fluorescent flowers, thermometers, brightly painted birdcages, and floating cast-resin body parts. In this short video, Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo talks about the work of...