Ruth Madievsky

Sep 18, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Ruth Madievsky |Jake Nevins

When Garth Greenwell told me that “actually writing embodied experience is basically impossible,” I nearly laughed in his face. There are few authors who make me feel as alive and rooted in my body as he does. And, somewhat unfairly to the rest of us who are fighting for our lives to describe a tree (branchy? vegetal?), Greenwell’s writing also adeptly captures how it feels to think.

Sep 5, 2024 | thecut.com | Ruth Madievsky

MIU MIU Dress, at miumiu.com. CHANEL Boots, available at select boutiques. Photo: Keith Oshiro We originally published this interview with Mikey Madison as part of our Fall Fashion Issue on September 5, 2024. We are recirculating it now that her film Anora is available to watch in theaters. Mikey Madison peers into her iPhone, where she’s browsing miniature horses available for adoption. She’s partial to Silver, a gelding in his mid-teens with a Targaryen-blond mane.

Aug 14, 2024 | pw.org | Ruth Madievsky

Many dolls / Without children live here,” writes Maryna, a fourteen-year-old poet living in Odesa, Ukraine. Her poem opens by asking her sister what it’s like in heaven: “Quiet, yes?

May 3, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Ruth Madievsky

“Sometimes at night I think about whales loose in the ocean living their lives, and it upsets me,” Kimberly King Parsons writes in her debut novel, We Were the Universe (Knopf). Hilarious, profane, and profound all at once, the book tells the story of Kit, a 20-something mother consumed by lust for a mysterious woman she meets at the playground. She’s also grieving her younger sister and debating whether to get back into LSD, which once bound the two of them together.

Apr 24, 2024 | audible.com | Haley Hill |Ocean Vuong |Kaveh Akbar |Ruth Madievsky

There is something so hauntingly beautiful about the way a skilled poet can spin a web of complex emotions thanks to a mastery of language that moves the rest of us to tears while expertly driving home a point. Ocean Vuong is that kind of poet, as seen in his critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. And his stunning debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which he also narrates, shows how deftly he can write at that level no matter the genre.