Lynne Tillman meets with her long-time friend to discuss fairytales and the artist’s beautifully layered works

The photographer’s most recent film candidly documents her personal journey

On the occasion of the centennial of the artist’s birth, Lynne Tillman offers a close reading of a lesser known photograph

Writers Gregg Bordowitz, Pamela Sneed, Sur Rodney (Sur) and Lynne Tillman discuss how the AIDS crisis changed art writing, and what lessons writers might carry over to the Covid-19 pandemic

With ‘Men and Apparitions’ – her first novel to be published in the UK since 1999 – Tillman deep-dives into photography and its lovers

In Reenacting Scenes from the Vietnam War, Le Upends – and Subverts – Landscape

The comedian’s aggressions are meant to produce pleasure, but often result in arguments and criticism

Our lives – like menus – are an assortment of so-called ‘choices’

‘Movies don’t change, and I do, and I don’t. Memory isn’t a choice and, like everyone, I forget way more than I can recall, necessarily.’

Lynne Tillman on the clash between real life and expectation

‘The Western that heroized pioneers unsettling the West was moribund. Unforgiven, an anti-Western Western, buried it.’

What does a picture tell? Not one story 

From Kader Attia's couscous sculptures and Isa Genzken's 'towers', to Rorschach tests and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

Lynne Tillman on Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, a tightly wrought film about a tightly controlled man

Growing old and growing value 

Dave Chappelle's comedy of discomfort 

A new play by Wallace Shawn examines what it means to survive in today’s society

How remembering the AIDS epidemic helps endure the crises of today

Drowning sorrows and watching Warhol’s Drunk aka Drink

Finding hope in hopeless times