Selected Writing
Hope writes, mostly, about books and ideas. For the New York Times, she curates book lists for Well. For her series for JSTOR Daily, she talks to public intellectuals from…
What Can You Do With a Degree in Watching TV?
I spoke with Anne Helen Petersen, former professor of media studies and current features writer at Buzzfeed, about the field of media studies -- and why she's leaving it --…
Atlantic Education’s Professor Series
My interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, philosopher and author of the upcoming "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away" has now been posted for the Atlantic's education channel.…
Creators of HBO’s “Looking” Talk About Their New Show
I had the pleasure of talking to Michael Lannan and Andrew Haigh, creators of HBO's new mini-series "Looking" about their new show, set to premiere this Sunday at 10:30pm ET.…
‘Boys have deep emotional lives’ – My interview with Rosalind Wiseman
Here's my latest Q&A for The Atlantic -- this time for their brand new "Education" channel. I talked to Rosalind Wiseman, author of the book that inspired "Mean Girls," about…
How The Sopranos, the wire, mad men, and breaking bad revolutionized TV
Brett Martin, author of "Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution," discusses how the "Third Golden Age" of television was born in the late '90s with shows that…
Conversation with Alysia Abbott, author of “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father”
Abbott talked to me about growing up in San Francisco in the late 1970's, early '80s, with an openly gay father, poet and activist Steve Abbott.
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Hope is the author of The Women Are Not Fine, out on July 10, 2025 -- you can now preorder it in the UK! She writes for The New York…