The Year in Interviews

This year we interviewed just under 300 people. From die hard New Yorkers to those just passing through our fair city, here are some our faves. And if you really wanna get reflective, here's our best of interview post from 2007.

Wallace Shawn, America's most radical playwright, told us a bit about his long-awaited new play and a lot about U.S. foreign policy.

For a long time you’ve been very outspoken politically; have you ever felt you’ve paid a price in your career or in society for your dissidence? Well, it’s helpful sometimes to think of all the many things that are operating as one big system, even though that is a metaphor that is flawed. But if you can refer to “the system,” one of the things that “the system” does to try to prevent critics from having any power is to really give us such an easy life that we become lazy and feeble. And one of the gifts that the system gives us is complete freedom to say whatever we like with hardly any consequences. Because it doesn’t really cost the system anything to do that and if it tried to punish us or restrict us we might become more vigorous and fight harder.

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