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Three Great Things: Eleanor Coppola

The writer-director, whose new film Love is Love is Love is in theaters, on nature, fearlessness and poetry.

November 19, 2021

Hanif Abdurraqib Talks with Adia Victoria on the Talkhouse Podcast

They talk Little Richard, Flannery O'Connor, and why Beyonce is actually a blues singer.

The Way We Get By: Josephine Decker Takes Us on a Poetry Walk

The director, whose new film Shirley is out this week, guides us through favorite works by Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke and more.

June 1, 2020

The Poetic Inspiration Behind Infinity Crush’s Virtual Heaven

Caroline White guides us through the new album’s references.

August 9, 2019

An Excerpt from Mouthguard, a Book of Poetry by Sadie Dupuis

Read "Build a Better Do It" from the debut collection, plus an introductory essay by Dupuis herself.

October 31, 2018

Introducing: “Radio”

A song-poem about wanting to be wild for someone for decades.

November 7, 2017

Sober Sunrises, and Other Tales of Making Maya Dardel

What happens when a poet and a novelist start making movies together?

How I Wrote Lion, or Breaking the Rules By Finding the Poetry in Screenwriting

Screenwriter Luke Davies on how his past as a novelist and poet informed the way he approached telling the heartwarming true story of Saroo Brierley.

December 13, 2016

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton

A rap response to the box-office hit biopic about N.W.A.’s cultural ascent.

August 21, 2015