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Oliver Sacks on Mania, Memoir, and Music
Oliver Sacks on Mania, Memoir, and Music
Oliver Sacks speaks with Eve Bowen about Michael Greenberg's new memoir, the work of Kay Redfield Jamison, and music and... Read more
17 Sep 2008
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Michael Chabon on the Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon on the Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon reads from his piece about writing his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Chabon spoke on February... Read more
15 Mar 2013
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Joan Didion on the Central Park Jogger
Joan Didion on the Central Park Jogger
Joan Didion reads from her 1991 essay “New York: Sentimental Journeys” about the Central Park jogger case. Didion spoke ... Read more
7 Mar 2013
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17mins
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Mary Beard on Reading the Classics
Mary Beard on Reading the Classics
Mary Beard discusses The New York Review’s coverage of the classics throughout its history. Beard spoke on February 5, 2... Read more
12 Mar 2013
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12mins
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Garry Wills on the Death of Conservatism
Garry Wills on the Death of Conservatism
Garry Wills speaks with Hugh Eakin about the end of the age of Buckley, the rise of right-wing radicalism, and the crisi... Read more
10 Sep 2009
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Ranked #6
Joyce Carol Oates on Shirley Jackson
Joyce Carol Oates on Shirley Jackson
Joyce Carol Oates talks to Sasha Weiss about the writer Shirley Jackson—her place in the writing of the 1950s, the renew... Read more
16 Sep 2009
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Edward Mendelson on Frank O’Hara
Edward Mendelson on Frank O’Hara
Edward Mendelson talks with Sasha Weiss about Frank O'Hara the moralist.
15 Sep 2008
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Darryl Pinckney on James Baldwin
Darryl Pinckney on James Baldwin
Darryl Pickney discusses his lifelong engagement with the writing of James Baldwin. Pinckney spoke on February 5, 2013 a... Read more
13 Mar 2013
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12mins
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Fintan O'Toole on Flann O'Brien
Fintan O'Toole on Flann O'Brien
Sasha Weiss speaks with Fintan O'Toole, columnist for the Irish Times, about the genius and misfortune of the great Iris... Read more
26 Aug 2009
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21mins
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Daniel Mendelsohn on September 11 at the Movies
Daniel Mendelsohn on September 11 at the Movies
Daniel Mendelsohn reads from his 2006 piece, “September 11 at the Movies,” a review of United 93 by Paul Greengrass and ... Read more
15 Mar 2013
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16mins
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Charles Simic Reads Selected Poems
Charles Simic Reads Selected Poems
Former poet laureate Charles Simic, a longtime Review contributor, reads work from his two most recent collections, Sixt... Read more
20 Oct 2008
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Reading Burma
Reading Burma
On September 23, at Cooper Union's Great Hall, PEN American Center, the Open Society Institute's Burma Project, and the ... Read more
29 Sep 2008
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Lawrence Weschler on David Hockney
Lawrence Weschler on David Hockney
Lawrence Weschler—whose audio slide show about David Hockney's iPhone drawings can be seen here—talks about Hockney's lo... Read more
6 Oct 2009
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David Cole on the Lawyers Who Authorized Torture
David Cole on the Lawyers Who Authorized Torture
David Cole talks to Hugh Eakin about the Bush Administration lawyers who—as recently as 2007—approved illegal CIA interr... Read more
23 Sep 2009
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John Banville on Hubert Butler
John Banville on Hubert Butler
John Banville discusses his 1997 review “The European Irishman,” on the work of Hubert Butler. Banville spoke on Februar... Read more
8 Mar 2013
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7mins
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The Consequences to Come
The Consequences to Come
Review contributors Darryl Pinckney, Ronald Dworkin, Joan Didion, and Mark Danner assess the 2008 presidential contest a... Read more
24 Sep 2008
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Samantha Power on National Security and the Election
Samantha Power on National Security and the Election
Samantha Power talks to Hugh Eakin about the foreign policy implications of the 2008 Presidential contest.
22 Sep 2008
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Michael Massing in Ohio
Michael Massing in Ohio
Frequent Review contributor Michael Massing uncovers a surprising trend in Ohio voters' preferences in the final weeks o... Read more
27 Oct 2008
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Jeff Madrick on the Economic Crisis
Jeff Madrick on the Economic Crisis
Hugh Eakin speaks with economics writer and frequent Review contributor Jeff Madrick about the US policies that led to t... Read more
17 Oct 2008
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Freeman Dyson on Amateur Scientists and the New Age of Wonder
Freeman Dyson on Amateur Scientists and the New Age of Wonder
Freeman Dyson talks to Charles Petersen about Richard Holmes's book The Age of Wonder, his own education in chemistry an... Read more
19 Aug 2009
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