Alexander Nazaryan talked with Hanya Yanagihara for Newsweek.

Caryl Phillips was interviewed at the Telegraph.

Judy Berman delves into the problem with endlessly reimagining fairy tales.

Colin Dickey visited an abandoned Russian mining town in Svalbard.

The Paris Review has a book group currently discussing Norman Rush’s Mating.

Matthew Specktor discusses the appeal of short stories in this interview.

In the Times, David Rees wrote about Nardwuar the Human Serviette.

At Tin House: a look at what makes a Charles D’Ambrosio sentence work.

At Decider, Tyler Coates revisited the film The Object of My Affection.

Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.