by Sheila Weller | Aug 1, 2022
“I needed to understand the fear that overcame everyone who stayed in New York throughout the surge of March and April [ 2020] as hospitals in the city were overwhelmed—and to understand those whose lives are lived as a calling to save every life they can. I would...
by Sheila Weller | Jun 29, 2022
It’s the last weekend in June and I’m Zoom-talking to Jean Hanff Korelitz, one of our best writers of thrillers and literary fiction. She’s sitting against a shelf of pottery in the country house she shares with her husband, highly distinguished, Pulitzer-Prize...
by Sheila Weller | May 25, 2022
Editor’s Note: With the news of yet another massacre of young children, we are re-publishing this September 2019 interview with Nicole Hockley, the mother of a six-year-old gunned down at Sandy Hook who has become a staunch activist for protecting the public...
by Sheila Weller | May 19, 2022
In the last three weeks we have witnessed the return of an America that we thought—we hoped—we would never see again. The leaked announcement, by the Supreme Court, of the intention to overturn Roe v. Wade and the racist murders of 13 decent people in Buffalo by a...
by Sheila Weller | May 2, 2022
“It’s funny,” Delia Ephron is saying, when I talk to her by phone at the end of April. “Life just hands you stuff. You can’t control what it hands you. Yes, there’s magic. But then there’s this unfathomably awful thing. There are extremes in battle. When I fell in...
