John Darnielle

Kurt Andersen and the theater director Gregory Mosher talk about how art unites and divides communities.

Jodie Foster explains what it was like to direct Mel Gibson in the new film The Beaver: “There’s a little madness in there,” she tells Kurt Andersen. Pop star Suzanne Vega creates a song cycle based on the life of the novelist Carson McCullers. And from the floodwaters of the Mississippi, great music rises.

The creator of Breaking Bad explains how his feel-bad television series (about a meth-dealing high school teacher with cancer) can inspire so much love from audiences and critics. The pioneering indie rocker John Darnielle, of the Mountain Goats, reveals his soft spot for Black Sabbath. And we visit The Clock, a mash-up film comprising more […]