Toni Morrison on Angela Davis and Angela Davis on Toni Morrison
In the summer of 2014, author Dan White spoke separately to Toni Morrison and to Angela Davis about...
Interviews
IC3 at 20
IC3 contributors reflect on the original publication
‘Shorter is expected to be less substantial. It feels arbitrary— why would length be correlated with impact?’
Natasha Brown’s Assembly is a concise, fragmentary novel that runs to 100 pages. Within these tight constraints she...
A kind of letting go
I’m very taken with the subjunctive in all things historical. What are the other possibilities and tributaries that branch off from what happened?
‘It’s best to understand the rules before you break them’
When people think of Indigenous art from the Pacific Northwest, it’s usually going to be something called formline, a technique that uses ovoid shapes, high contrast, and positive and negative space.
‘Modern medicine is brilliant. But we’re not good at keeping people from falling off the cliff in the first place.’
Why is it that we, as a society, don’t pay more attention to stories of recovery? Why do...
‘One of the challenges of the book was how is it possible to write about whiteness? To make it apparent, to show it, make it show itself’
In Sarah Elaine Smith’s new novel, Marilou is Everywhere, a young woman from Deep Valley, Pennsylvania, goes missing. Jude Vanderjohn...
‘We have an expectation that loss comes all at once.’
Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar is a love story: a tale of obsession and betrayal. But not between lovers:...
‘Another thing that fascinates me: one sentence can reveal so much about a person.’
This month I read Lydia Davis’s latest, Essays, before our arranged phone conversation. Davis’s writing voice is always...
‘Climate change is us.The sixth extinction is us. We are at the heart of all of these issues.’
Julian Hoffman’s latest book, Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, is a cry to see, to...
Speaking to Emilie Pine
As an associate professor of modern drama, Emilie Pine is used to employing the disembodied writing style of...
‘Older black women, who writes about that?’
Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction. Her other writing includes...