Web Exclusive: A Conversation with Linda Hogan
By Interview Issue 79
Chickasaw poet, essayist, and fiction writer Linda Hogan’s essay in the Image issue 79 is a lyric meditation on the migration of sandhill cranes and their connection to the Platte River in Nebraska. It explores the links between the natural world and human making—and sets forth a way of standing in awe before nature. Image: The…
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation with Morgan Meis
By Interview Issue 80
Morgan Meis blogs about philosophy and art criticism at The Smart Set. His essay “Conversion” in Image Issue 80 takes an oblique approach to his coming into the Catholic Church–it’s at least as much a portrait of the elderly Sri Lankan nun who catechized him as it is a personal essay. Image: You are a…
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation with Natalie Settles
By Interview Issue 85
Artist Natalie Settles, featured in Image issue 85, has long been fascinated by the biological sciences. She makes drawings and installation art that mix highly detailed botanical and zoological imagery with highly stylized forms, like Victorian decorative motifs. Her installation works are interactive; they use a gallery space to create an ecosystem in which the viewer…
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation with Christian Wiman
By Interview Issue 81
Christian Wiman, former editor of Poetry and current faculty member at the Yale Divinity School, has four poems in Image issue 81. We asked him to talk about what went into the writing of them. Image: You’ve been interviewed a great deal lately about some rather large topics: illness, death, faith, doubt, and beyond.…
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation with Dan Wakefield
By Interview Issue 82
Dan Wakefield recently edited a book of the letters of Kurt Vonnegut, with whom he maintained a literary friendship over four decades. Though Vonnegut is often associated with the skepticism and iconoclasm of the sixties and seventies, faith held a mystique for him. At times he called himself a “Christ-loving atheist” and “a Christ-worshipping agnostic.”…
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation with Wayne Roosa
By Interview Issue 83
In issue 83, Wayne Roosa writes about a surprising conversation with his art history students about the parallels between Old Testament prophets and contemporary performance artists—a conversation that led to a new way of looking at performance work. We asked him about this art genre, one that many viewers find hard to connect with. Image:…
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation with Lauren F. Winner
By Interview Issue 84
Each chapter of Lauren F. Winner’s new book, Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God (HarperOne), explores a single biblical image of God through a mix of exegesis, cultural history, and personal essay. The chapter excerpted in issue 84 is about bread. Image’s Mary Kenagy Mitchell recently asked Winner about her…
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