“The Big Idea” at The Rumpus.net features interviews with writers, artists, scientists, activists, and others who take a long and broad view of an issue, problem, or concept, and pursue it over many years.
An Interview With Bill McKibben about climate change and activism in the age of Trump
An Interview with Dawn Tripp about the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe and the challenges of writing historical fiction
An Interview with Mark Bittman about the current state of eating and cooking in America
An Interview with Eula Biss about vaccine phobia and ‘the golden age of women essayists’
An Interview with Rebecca Mead about Middlemarch
An Interview with Fady Joudah about poetry and politics, text and context
An Interview with Carl Hart about neuroscience, drug policy, and race
An Interview with Oliver Sacks about hallucinations and the imagination
An Interview with Eve Ensler about the body, art, and activism
An Interview with Gish Jen about art, culture, and the self
An Interview with Andrew Solomon about parents, children, and identity