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Soundings from The New York Review

Interviews, conversations, discussions, events and more from the writers and staff of The New York Review of Books

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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

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

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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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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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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