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Pandemic Journal from 2020-04-15T15:50
In this series, New York Review contributors document the coronavirus outbreak around the world. Featuring readings by Eduardo Halfon in Paris, Anastasia Edel in Oakland, Miguel-Anxo Murado in Madr...
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Literary Journalism: A Discussion from 2013-05-03T16:46:10
Ian Buruma, Joseph Lelyveld, Zoë Heller, Alma Guillermoprieto, and Andrew Delbanco discuss the future of literary journalism. This podcast was recorded on April 3, 2013 at the New York Public Library.
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Michael Chabon on the Mysteries of Pittsburgh from 2013-03-15T15:08:43
Michael Chabon reads from his piece about writing his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Chabon spoke on February 5, 2013 at Town Hall in New York City, in a celebration of The New York Revi...
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Daniel Mendelsohn on September 11 at the Movies from 2013-03-15T12:04:02
Daniel Mendelsohn reads from his 2006 piece, “September 11 at the Movies,” a review of United 93 by Paul Greengrass and World Trade Center by Oliver Stone. Mendelsohn spoke on February 5, 2013 at T...
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Mark Danner on Reporting from the Campaign Trail from 2013-03-14T13:10:38
Mark Danner discusses his time as an editorial assistant at The New York Review and as a contributor from the campaign trail. Danner spoke on February 5, 2013 at Town Hall in New York City, in a ce...
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Darryl Pinckney on James Baldwin from 2013-03-13T16:04:24
Darryl Pickney discusses his lifelong engagement with the writing of James Baldwin. Pinckney spoke on February 5, 2013 at Town Hall in New York City, in a celebration of The New York Review's 50th ...
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Mary Beard on Reading the Classics from 2013-03-12T17:47:12
Mary Beard discusses The New York Review’s coverage of the classics throughout its history. Beard spoke on February 5, 2013 at Town Hall in New York City, in a celebration of The New York Review's ...
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John Banville on Hubert Butler from 2013-03-08T18:15:23
John Banville discusses his 1997 review “The European Irishman,” on the work of Hubert Butler. Banville spoke on February 5, 2013 at Town Hall in New York City, in a celebration of The New York Rev...
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Joan Didion on the Central Park Jogger from 2013-03-07T15:45
Joan Didion reads from her 1991 essay “New York: Sentimental Journeys” about the Central Park jogger case. Didion spoke on February 5, 2013 at Town Hall in New York City, in a celebration of The Ne...
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Steve Coll on the Killing of Osama bin Laden from 2012-10-09T12:34:51
Steve Coll addresses the political implications of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and how the author of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden sidesteppe...
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Henri Cole Reads Selected Poems from 2012-05-25T16:15
Henri Cole reads from his recent book of poems, Touch (2011), and talks about his search for what he calls the “essentialness of emotion.”
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Jonathan Freedland on the Royal Wedding from 2011-04-28T12:00
Jonathan Freedland talks with Emily Greenhouse about gilded-coach celebrity in an era of austerity, the hereditary principle, and why all bets are off when it comes to Wills and Kate.
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Andrew Delbanco on Mark Twain from 2011-04-14T18:03:36
Andrew Delbanco talks with Andrew Martin about the first volume of Mark Twain’s unabridged Autobiography and the distinctive joys and challenges of reading Twain in the twenty-first century.
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Geoffrey O'Brien on Duke Ellington from 2011-03-11T14:45:10
Geoffrey O'Brien talks with Chris Carroll about Duke Ellington's mid-career crisis and stunning comeback, revisiting his often-overlooked albums of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Robert Gottlieb on Charles Dickens from 2010-08-13T11:45
Robert Gottlieb speaks to Andrew Martin about Charles Dickens’s troubled life, his best and worst novels, and how to read without editing.
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Derek Walcott, Two Poems from 2010-07-09T15:00:41
Poet Derek Walcott recites “Fare Well” by Walter de la Mare, and reads “The Hulls of White Yachts,” from his latest collection White Egrets.
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Charles Rosen Plays Chopin from 2010-07-01T11:15:09
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Dan Chiasson on Lydia Davis from 2010-05-19T12:15:08
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Deborah Eisenberg on Skylark from 2010-04-09T00:00
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Cathleen Schine on Gail Collins from 2010-01-21T00:00
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Charles Wright Reads Selected Sestets and Other Poems from 2009-12-10T00:00
Charles Wright reads from his recent collection, Sestets, and talks to Sasha Weiss about the importance of landscape in his work, his writing process, and how he came to experiment with the six-lin...
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Andrew O'Hagan on Samuel Johnson from 2009-12-02T00:00
Andrew O'Hagan talks to Sasha Weiss about Samuel Johnson's various and contradictory character, how his Rambler essays shaped our notions of literary talent and professional authorship, and why, in...
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Joost Hiltermann on Iraq on the Edge from 2009-11-18T00:00
Joost Hiltermann speaks with Nathan Thrall about the political crisis facing Iraq as it prepares for parliamentary elections in 2010 and the final withdrawal of all American troops by the end of th...
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Chris Jordan on Midway Atoll and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from 2009-11-11T00:00
Photographer and activist Chris Jordan speaks with Eve Bowen about his recent photographs, taken at one of the world's most remote marine wildlife sanctuaries, of albatross chicks killed by plastic...
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Jerome Groopman on the Changing Medical Profession from 2009-11-04T00:00
Jerome Groopman speaks with Andrew Martin about how regulation of shift length, the struggle to control costs, and the rise of "evidence-based" medicine have changed how doctors learn and practice.
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James Bamford on the National Security Agency from 2009-10-28T00:00
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Frederick Seidel Reads Selected Poems from 2009-10-21T00:00
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Norman Manea on Herta Müller from 2009-10-19T00:00
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Lawrence Weschler on David Hockney from 2009-10-06T00:00
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David Cole on the Lawyers Who Authorized Torture from 2009-09-23T00:00
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Joyce Carol Oates on Shirley Jackson from 2009-09-16T00:00
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Garry Wills on the Death of Conservatism from 2009-09-10T00:00
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James M. McPherson on Abraham Lincoln from 2009-09-02T00:00
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Fintan O'Toole on Flann O'Brien from 2009-08-26T00:00
Sasha Weiss speaks with Fintan O'Toole, columnist for the Irish Times, about the genius and misfortune of the great Irish novelist Flann O'Brien.
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Freeman Dyson on Amateur Scientists and the New Age of Wonder from 2009-08-19T00:00
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J.M. Coetzee Reads From Summertime from 2009-08-12T00:00
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Michael Massing on Reinventing the News from 2009-08-05T00:00
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Adam Hochschild in Eastern Congo from 2009-07-29T00:00
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Ronald Dworkin on Sotomayor and the Roberts Court from 2009-07-20T00:00
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Timothy Snyder on the Holocaust from 2009-07-13T00:00
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Roger Cohen in Tehran from 2009-07-08T00:00
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Claire Messud Reads "Land Divers" from 2009-06-29T00:00
Novelist and critic Claire Messud, author most recently of the novel The Emperor's Children, reads her new story "Land Divers," from the Review's Summer Fiction issue.
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Michael Tomasky on Obama's Strategy from 2009-06-22T00:00
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David Cole on Same-Sex Marriage from 2009-06-15T00:00
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Nicholas Kristof on Darfur from 2009-06-08T00:00
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Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan in Crisis from 2009-06-01T00:00
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Helen Epstein on Prison Reform from 2009-05-25T00:00
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Christopher Ricks on John Keats from 2009-05-18T00:00
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Andrew Delbanco on the Universities in Trouble from 2009-05-11T00:00
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David Hare Performs Wall from 2009-05-04T00:00
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Tim Parks on Pinocchio from 2009-04-27T00:00
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Robert M. Solow on the Economic Crisis from 2009-04-20T00:00
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Orlando Figes on the Politics of Russian History from 2009-04-13T00:00
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Pico Iyer on the Dalai Lama from 2009-04-06T00:00
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John Ashbery Reads Selected Poems from 2009-04-01T00:00
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Dan Chiasson on John Ashbery from 2009-03-30T00:00
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Jonathan Raban on Wendy and Lucy from 2009-03-23T00:00
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Mark Danner on the ICRC Report on US Torture from 2009-03-14T00:00
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Anita Desai on Azar Nafisi from 2009-03-09T00:00
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Lorrie Moore on Donald Barthelme from 2009-03-02T00:00
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J. Michael Lennon on Norman Mailer’s Letters from 2009-02-26T00:00
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Hilton Als on Gus Van Sant’s Milk from 2009-02-20T00:00
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Tim Flannery on The Superorganism from 2009-02-09T00:00
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Alison Lurie on John Updike from 2009-02-02T00:00
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Robert Malley on Gaza from 2009-01-26T00:00
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Darryl Pinckney and Mark Danner on Obama’s Inauguration from 2009-01-23T00:00
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William Dalrymple on Pakistan from 2009-01-19T00:00
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Barry Goldensohn Reads Selected Poems from 2009-01-12T00:00
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Perry Link on China’s Charter 08 from 2009-01-05T00:00
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Elizabeth Drew on the President-Elect from 2008-12-15T00:00
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Sue Halpern on Reportage from Iraq and Afghanistan from 2008-12-08T00:00
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William Easterly on Foreign Aid Militarization from 2008-12-01T00:00
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Daniel Mendelsohn on Constantine Cavafy from 2008-11-24T00:00
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What Happens Now? A Conversation on the 2008 Election from 2008-11-23T00:00
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Martin Filler on Frank Lloyd Wright from 2008-11-10T00:00
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Helen Vendler on Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell from 2008-11-03T21:26:05
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The Election Issues Tour: San Francisco from 2008-10-31T00:00
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The Election Issues Tour: Washington, DC from 2008-10-31T00:00
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The Election Issues Tour: Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2008-10-31T00:00
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Michael Massing in Ohio from 2008-10-27T18:31:05
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Charles Simic Reads Selected Poems from 2008-10-20T18:10:53
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Jeff Madrick on the Economic Crisis from 2008-10-17T18:07:55
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Reading in a World of Images from 2008-10-06T18:02:07
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Reading Burma from 2008-09-29T17:30:47
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The Consequences to Come from 2008-09-24T17:02:24
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Samantha Power on National Security and the Election from 2008-09-22T16:30:28
Samantha Power talks to Hugh Eakin about the foreign policy implications of the 2008 Presidential contest.
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Oliver Sacks on Mania, Memoir, and Music from 2008-09-17T16:25:57
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Edward Mendelson on Frank O’Hara from 2008-09-15T16:12:46
Edward Mendelson talks with Sasha Weiss about Frank O'Hara the moralist.
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Joseph Lelyveld at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Part II from 2008-09-08T15:49:36
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Michael Chabon at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Part II from 2008-09-02T16:06:25
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Joseph Lelyveld at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Part I from 2008-09-02T15:36:09
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Michael Chabon at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Part I from 2008-08-27T15:59:16
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Vanessa Redgrave and David Hare from 2008-08-25T15:16:37
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Vanessa Redgrave and David Hare Audience Question and Answer Session from 2008-08-25T00:00
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Michael Massing on Iraq from 2008-08-18T15:12:05
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Mary Beard on Jokes from 2008-08-04T20:17:03
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Edmund White on Marguerite Duras from 2008-06-30T14:45:17
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Robert Barnett on China, Tibet, and the Olympics from 2008-06-30T00:00
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