"If you fear change, you’ll be horrified to learn that this new site is more than just a cosmetic improvement," is how they put it, before informing us that they are releasing their complete digital archive. Every single piece from their archive is available. Like The New Yorker, or Harper's, it comes at a price: a subscription to the magazine.

But, like always, their writer's interviews are available for free. It's one of the best online resources to learn from absolute masters of the craft, many of whom are now long dead, and have achieved the kind of mythical status that almost makes you surprised they ever were interviewable at all.

Here are just a few standouts of the hundreds available:

• The first in the series! E. M. Forster, The Art of Fiction No. 1
• Know your facist poets: Ezra Pound, The Art of Poetry No. 5
• Know your memoirists: Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1
• Know your "I'm so talented I get interviewed twice, once for fiction and once for non-fiction" writer: Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1, and Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71
• Know them before their work was made insidious musical (but still have the pernicious Jellicle Cats stuck in head while you write): T. S. Eliot, The Art of Poetry No. 1
• Know your micro-story artisans: Lydia Davis, Art of Fiction No. 227
• Know your gentile British humorists: P. G. Wodehouse, The Art of Fiction No. 60
• And your iconoclastic British lesbian feminists: Jeanette Winterson, The Art of Fiction No. 150
• Your understated, brilliant, British philosopher queens: Iris Murdoch, The Art of Fiction No. 117
• Your wonderful American Science Fiction inspirational favorites: Samuel R. Delany, The Art of Fiction No. 210
• Your creator, from whose library you may read every infinite variation of every one of these interviews in any imaginable form: Jorge Luis Borges, The Art of Fiction No. 39
• Your mysterious, and never unveiled (so we will pretend in happy ignorance) Italian hagiographer: Elena Ferrante, Art of Fiction No. 228
• Your long missed — especially in this political landscape when we need her voice so badly — American intellectual who always had an amazing thing or two to say that would challenge your world view: Susan Sontag, The Art of Fiction No. 143
• Your unnerving British urban social archaeologist: J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85
• Your butterfly collector: Vladimir Nabokov, The Art of Fiction No. 40
• Your Japanese wonderman: Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182
• Your actual Faulkner: William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12