All Episodes

Mira Jacob on drawing her family

Veronica Roth on the consequences of fame

Kate Elizabeth Russell on power

Dolly Alderton on being comfortable being alone

Lauren Mechling on being out of Vogue

Leslie Jamison on turning animals into characters

Jami Attenberg on dysfunctional families

Vicki Laveau-Harvie on surviving her family

Elaine Welteroth on having the perfect life

Courtney Maum on heeding your own instincts

Jia Tolentino on self-reflection

Kathleen Alcott on searching for America

Lisa Taddeo on the effects of past relationships

Ocean Vuong on inheriting our values

Elizabeth Gilbert on exploring our desires and sexual freedoms

Mickey Rapkin on writing a Hollywood hit

Ceridwen Dovey on the privilege and vulnerability of being a young woman

Stan Grant reflects on the privilege of nostalgia

Monica Tan on understanding Australia

Bret Easton Ellis on the danger of so-called thought-crime

Taylor Jenkins Reid on women not aspiring to be merely the muse

Hermione Hoby is seeking to understand people

Trent Dalton on what makes a good man

Natalka Burian on writing about family dynamics

Sheila Heti on the ties between female identity and motherhood

Mary Gabriel on placing females artists back into art history

Rachel Kushner on Understanding Stalkers

Kerry O'Brien on the importance of investing in journalism

Courtney Maum on the importance of touch

Lucie Greene on forecasting desire through data

Georgia Clark on representing someone else's experience

Olivia Laing and dealing with the contradictions of the world

R.O. Kwon and the cult of religion

Rebecca Traister and the positive power of female rage

Glory Edim on representation in literature

James Frey wants to burn the world down

Ingrid Fetell Lee and the aesthetics of Joy

Parker Posey compares acting to writing

Meg Mason on Motherhood's effect on her writing

Neil Gaiman and Norse Gods

Caitlin Moran on sexual shame and gender boundaries

Ann Patchett on opening up in fiction

Max Porter on love through grief

Karl Ove Knausgaard on fate, shame, prolonging pleasure, and iconic memories

Jennifer Egan on Manhattan Beach, gangsters and following her instincts

Maria Semple on friendship, city living, and coping mechanisms

Min Jin Lee on the history of Korean families in Japan

Esther Perel on rethinking infidelity

Jami Attenberg on being a woman in NYC and finding success

The inimitable roxane gay

Salman Rushdie on how life is Stranger Than Fiction

Mohsin Hamid on immigration, life in Pakistan, and Donald Trump

Stephanie Danler on coming of age in NYC

Tom Perrotta on porn addiction, suburban America and exploring gender norms

Samantha Irby on intentional dating, epic sexual mishaps and redefining family

Trevor Noah live at NeueHouse

The way forward with Lidia Yuknavitch

Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Vietnamese-American refugee experience

Claire Messud on long-lost friendships

The ever introspective Mary Louise Parker

Maggie Nelson reflects on her work