An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

An interview with Ashon T. Crawley

Skurtu speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about “Offering,” her poem from Issue 19 of The Common magazine....

An interview with Susie Yang

An interview with Joyce Ruth Yarrow

In this interview, Sunisa and I discuss the historical setting of her book, and how much her characters represent the dynamics and emotions of Thailand’s student activists...

Seventeen-year-old Yael Amar is in South Africa, signed up for a summer course in South Africa’s Kruger National Park....

It seems likely that most of our listeners have at least heard of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and her sister Emily’s Wuthering Heights. Many also know that Charlotte and Emily had two other talented siblings who grew to adulthood...

David Moloney discusses his story “Counsel,” The Common Magazine (Spring, 2020)

In order to reclaim her throne and save her people, an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior...

Part immigration narrative, part elegy, and part queer coming-of-age story..

Today I interview Mary Cappello about her new book, Lecture (Transit Books, 2020). Although I almost hesitate to call it a book. It’s much more—like all great lectures are—a performance...

In these linked stories, the war reverberates through four generations of a Jewish family...

Valenti plugs into the current zeitgeist of young women who struggle to defy the casual sexism of men in power...

Adjmi’s memoir also traces his evolving relationship with his family and his community, from whom he desires to escape even as he finds himself drawn continually back to them...

Restrelli divulges the clandes­tine inner workings of the seminary, providing an intimate and unapologetic look into the psychosexual and spiritual dynamics of celibacy...

Araton's book reads like a mix between Tuesdays with Morrie and a sequel to his book When the Garden was Eden (which chronicled the New York Knicks’ early-70s title teams). It’s a book about friendship, aging and of course, basketball....

"The Once and Future Witches" begins with the familiar phrase “Once upon a time” but the novel is anything but a traditional fairytale...

Sharifa and her husband Murtuza are spending his sabbatical year in Mumbai with their seven-year-old daughter, Zeenat...

In this episode you’ll hear disaster stories, finishing a book project, poetry, and what resilience is and isn’t...

Californian Claire Easton, who writes a magazine column called “The Anglophile’s Notebook,” travels to England to do research for a book about Charlotte Brontë....

The plays range from outlandish comedies like Bride of Lesbostein to the historical drama Hick: A Love Story...

Harlan recounts her experiences living in some of the world’s most historically rich, remote places, and how these many homes afforded her an appreciation...

A rich and complex world of sword-wielding fighters and seductive sorceresses, written in percussive, lyrical prose...