Francey Russell inspects Amy Seimetz's "She Dies Tomorrow," hailed as the first COVID film.

Amy Lin talks with Robert Wood about growing up in Redgate, in the Southwest of Western Australia, and its impact on his literary life.

Colin Marshall delves into the development of Korean literature as a genre, through Youngmin Kwon and Bruce Fulton's "What Is Korean Literature?"

Andy Fitch talks with Jeffrey D. Sachs about how we became a global species, and what that means now.

Erik Martiny talks with Rick Gekoski about his uncompromising character James Darke, and the forces behind his original novel and recent sequel.

Paul J. D'Ambrosio links the tracing measures being implemented during the pandemic to what might formerly have been considered unwelcome surveillance.

Joanna Chen talks about the interwoven lives of Palestinians and Israelis in the novel "Apeirogon" with its author, Colum McCann.

Erin L. Thompson thinks about what it means to record the process of destroying art in Aaron Tugendhaft's "The Idols of ISIS."

Brandy Colbert Talks with Christina Hammonds Reed about her debut YA novel "The Black Kids," about growing up Black in the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Jennifer Michael Hecht relates Georgie Wileman’s new photo series to thoughts to pandemic isolation and the specter of self-harm.