Ling Ma
Articles by Ling Ma
Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy
Issue #37
By Savannah Knoop
Rutu Modan
Issue #37
The Israeli comic book artist breaks down the blood, sweat, and tears that went into Jamitli and Other Stories
Jennifer Stevenson
Issue #36
The author of Trash Sex Magic switches the lit market for the mainstream with an eye-boggling fantasy romance trilogy. Here, she shows us a little leg on the politics of writing romance.
A somber winter
Snow Angels comes off as a dreamy slice of rural living — until it’s interrupted with flashes of violence and suppressed, near-biblical ire
Mad Lit: Felicia Sullivan
Issue #35
How many readings of John Cheever’s Bullet Park does it take to purge WASP envy? The editor of Small Spiral Notebook keeps count. (The uncut version)
Samantha Hunt
Issue #34
The author goes searching for inventor Nikola Tesla and finds a story about the endless possibilities of science in The Invention of Everything Else. She also expounds on the New Yorker Hotel, living in small towns, and “you know, the wonders of
Product Placement
Issue #33
Almond Dofu
Alice Sebold
Issue #33
The author talks about covering new ground in her latest novel, The Almost Moon, learning to live with our own bodies, and how she got over being an ‘absolute loser’ in New York
Mad Lit: Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
Issue #33
The multitasking literary duo compares notes on Kim Stanley Robinson's epic sci-fi trilogy
What does Samuel Taylor Coleridge have to do with liquid nitrogen ice cream?
In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman takes a leisurely promenade through any topic that strikes her fancy
Mad Lit: Jennifer Belle
At the release of her third novel, Little Stalker, the novelist revisits the appeal of Humbert Humbert and imagines downing scotches with Nabokov in the afterlife
Product Placement
Issue #32
Ramune
Book Reviews
Issue #31
The Last Communist Virgin
Karen Russell
Issue #30
Strewn with plane crashes, alligators, an d nuns, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves surveys the lonesome no man's land between childhood and adolescence.
Marisha Pessl
Continued from issue No. 29
Curtis Sittenfeld
Older and wiser, the author of Prep graduates from all the debut-novelist hype with a second book
The First Hurt
Issue #28
By Rachel Sherman
Curtis Sittenfeld
Issue #28
Older and wiser, the Prep author graduates from all the debut-novelist hype with a second novel, hard-earned experiences on the unspoken rules of publishing, and more thoughts on chick lit
Cat Power
The Greatest (Matador)
Pretty Little Dirty
Issue #26
by Amanda Boyden
'Wide Eyed' by Trinie Dalton
Akashic Books, $13.95, 176 pages
'Jules and Jim' review
DVD (Criterion Collection)
'Nobody Knows' review
In Hirokazu Kore-eda's vision of childhood pathos, four children feign their non-existence to the world
Smart smut
Issue #22
The uncut interview from issue No. 22
White Magic
Mira Billotte artfully talks about irony, throwback bands, and the difference between imitation and influence
'Fahrenheit 9/11' review
Moore's documentary eloquently rips Bush a new one
'The Brown Bunny' review
What is there to say about this film that hasn't already been said?
Gee's Bend quilts
Four generations of African American women reinvent the Euro-American quilt
Thalia Zedek
With the release of her second solo full-length, the former Come member talks about her day job and becoming a solo artist
Lucky LooLoo's girl band fashion contest
Jewelry company wants you to sing for your bling
'The Stepford Wives' review
Feminist backlash sold separately
