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In this Georgetown University Qatar event, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Hisham Matar discusses the origins of his latest novel, My Friends (Random House, 2024), which follows three Libyan friends living in London as exiles, in a conversation with Kamila Shamsie.
In this 2024 Vogue Singapore video, Amanda Lee Koe talks about some of her favorite books, exploring identity through her work, and the themes of sisterhood and autonomy in her second novel, Sister Snake (Ecco, 2024).
Author and journalist Jessie Tu talks about her experience and expectations for writing her second novel, The Honeyeaters (Allen & Unwin, 2024), and the “colonial and imperialist legacies” around language in a conversation with Annabel Crabb at this Roaring Stories Bookshop event in Sydney, Australia.
In this Waterstones interview, Asako Yuzuki discusses the process of writing and publishing her novel Butter (4th Estate, 2024), translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton, and shares her thoughts on the book’s themes of food and desire. Yuzuki’s novel was selected as the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2024.
Watch the trailer for Mickey 17, a science fiction film based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, Mickey7. Written, produced, and directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Robert Pattinson, the film follows a man who is hired to die and be cloned repeatedly while exploring a dangerous planet.
“I love when a character in a novel, or in a story, or even in a poem, experiences a sense of change that they cannot come back from.” In this Books Are Magic event, Aria Aber reads from her debut novel, Good Girl (Hogarth, 2025), and discusses themes of shame, self-destruction, and coming of age as an artist in a conversation with Leslie Jamison. For more from Aber, read her installment of our Ten Questions series.
“I’m not consciously balancing humor and tragedy, but I know that they do exist side by side.” In this Louisiana Channel interview, Lorrie Moore talks about the nature of jokes, the emotional and tonal range of her short stories, and reflects on the sense of repetition in her novel I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (Knopf, 2023).
Watch the trailer for Nightbitch, a film adaptation of the 2021 novel of the same name by Rachel Yoder. Written and directed by Marielle Heller, the film stars Amy Adams as an artist who pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mother and finds her maternal instincts beginning to manifest in canine form.
In this 2022 Louisiana Channel interview, Japanese novelist Sayaka Murata talks about the imaginary worlds of her childhoood, her writing process involving character sketches, and the origin of her otherworldly stories. “My world of daydreams or the power of stories saved me, so I was able to survive. And this same strength is in my protagonists,” says Murata.
In this Late Night With Seth Meyers interview, Percival Everett talks about how Mark Twain, among others, influenced the sense of irony in his writing and how a game of tennis impacted the premise of his novel James (Doubleday, 2024), for which he won the 2024 National Book Award in fiction.
