Best Claudia Reid Podcasts (2025)

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Paul Chan – Season 8, Episode 5 1:02:31

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Paul Chan is an artist, writer, and former publisher. For this episode of Momus: The Podcast, Chan’s self-made automated doppelganger reads “Sade Today (after Judith Butler),” a piece he wrote for Evergreen (Spring/Summer 2025). He speaks to Sky Goodden about the implications of AI on writers (though they agree that criticism could present a specia…

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THE PRESENT TRUTH Pt1 59:40

24d ago59:40

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Meghan O'Rourke – Season 8, Episode 4 52:40

29d ago52:40

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In this episode, Meghan O'Rourke, poet, author and editor of The Yale Review, speaks frankly about pursuing a creative and professional life with chronic illness. Joining Lauren Wetmore in conversation, and following a reading from Susan Sontag's pivotal text "Illness as a Metaphor" (The New York Review of Books, 1979), which O'Rourke updated for t…

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NEBUCHADNEZZAR HUMILIATED 2:02:57

1M ago2:02:57

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON THE WORD OF GOD Pt 4 2:44:54

1M ago2:44:54

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No Compromise 1:47:44

1M ago1:47:44

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Legacy Russell – Season 8, Episode 3 59:09

2M ago59:09

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In this episode, we feature Legacy Russell, the writer, curator, and Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen, an artist-driven non-profit space in New York City. As a cultural critic she has published the books Glitch Feminism (Verso Books, 2020) and Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us (Verso Books, 2024), which questions h…

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Nizan Shaked – Season 8, Episode 2 59:28

3M ago59:28

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Nizan Shaked is our guest this month! Shaked is Professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum, and Curatorial Studies at California State University, Long Beach, and most recently the author of Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections (Bloomsbury, 2022). She speaks to Lauren Wetmore about the resources offered by criticality…

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Ajay Kurian – Season 8, Episode 1 1:01:50

4M ago1:01:50

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Season 8 of Momus: The Podcast launches with Ajay Kurian, an artist, critic, and co-founder of New Crits, a platform for artist mentorship. Kurian speaks with Sky Goodden about a text by Robert Pogue Harrison on the art of the zen garden (Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, University of Chicago Press, 2008), and about his artist-writer influ…

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FOUR BOYS IN BABYLON 1:30:21

5M ago1:30:21

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KNOW YOUR BIBLE PART 3 1:46:25

6M ago1:46:25

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Send us a text Test your knowledge on the word of GodBy Claudia Reid

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Tiana Reid – Season 7, Episode 8 49:43

6M ago49:43

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Momus: The Podcast’s Season 07 finale features Tiana Reid, a Toronto-based critic and assistant professor of English at York University. Reid is a former editor at The New Inquiry and her writing has been featured in Frieze, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and The Paris Review, among others. She reads from an early influence on her practi…

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Claudia La Rocco – Season 7, Episode 7 56:28

7M ago56:28

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Esteemed critic and writer Claudia La Rocco speaks to Lauren Wetmore about being a “dance partisan” and how “language can nail things down in a way that dance doesn’t.” This wide-ranging conversation touches on artists including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Simone Forti, and Moriah Evans, through critics including Jill Johnston and Megan Metcalf, to consid…

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Niela Orr – Season 7, Episode 6 1:05:22

8M ago1:05:22

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Niela Orr is a culture writer and editor who has published in The Baffler, The Believer, and The Organist, among others. Since 2022 she has worked as an editor at the New York Times Magazine. In conversation with Sky Goodden, Orr discusses her editing as being rooted in service, and her abiding sense of responsibility to the writers that she works …

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THE DESIRE OF AGES (THE SABBATH) PT 2 1:33:36

8M ago1:33:36

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Send us a text To all who receive the Sabbath as a sign of Christ's creative and redeeming power, it will be a delight. Seeing Christ in it, they delight themselves in Him. The Sabbath points them to the works of creation as an evidence of His mighty power in redemption. While it calls to mind the lost peace of Eden, it tells of peace restored thro…

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THE DESIRE OF AGES (THE SABBATH) PT 1 2:31:54

8M ago2:31:54

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Send us a text And the Lord says, "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord."By Claudia Reid

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KNOW YOUR BIBLE 2 2:19:19

9M ago2:19:19

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KNOW YOUR BIBLE PT. 1 2:00:58

9M ago2:00:58

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JEZEBEL'S BLIGHTING INFLUENCE 53:29

9M ago53:29

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Send us a text "How few realize the power of an unconsecrated woman. God would have been with Ahab if he had walked in the counsel of heaven. But Ahab did not do this. He married a woman given to idolatry. Jezebel had more power over the king than God had. She led him into idolatry, and with him the people."…

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BATTLE SONG (Conflict and Courage) 1:13:03

9M ago1:13:03

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Send us a text Filled with great testimonies and glorious songsBy Claudia Reid

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Joshua Schwebel – Season 7, Episode 5 1:01:47

9M ago1:01:47

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Joshua Schwebel speaks to long-time collaborator Lauren Wetmore about their shared interest in closing the gap between how art is discursively framed and what it actually does. Schwebel’s artistic practice stems from a deep need to understand the world, coupled with an allergy to authority. “Art is rhetorically positioned as radical,” notes Schwebe…

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Carolina A. Miranda – Season 7, Episode 4 1:07:21

10M ago1:07:21

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Carolina A. Miranda, a longtime L.A. Times staff culture writer who has recently returned to the wilds of freelance, speaks to Sky Goodden about looking at things from both sides now. In working on a book proposal about the year she spent in Chile following the fall of Pinochet’s dictatorship, and in exploring new genres of writing for different pu…

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Fargo Nissim Tbakhi – Season 7, Episode 3 1:11:09

11M ago1:11:09

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Palestinian-American artist and writer Fargo Nissim Tbakhi speaks with Lauren Wetmore about the political implication of form through two texts: Tbakhi’s own piece "Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide" (Protean Magazine, 2023), and Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif’s “The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasu…

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A FOOLISH WISE MAN 52:16

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Send us a text "Jealous, angry, and desperate, Ahithophel "gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died." Such was the result of the wisdom of one, who, with all his high endowments, did not make God his counselor."By Claudia Reid

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GOD TRUE SABBATH 19:57

12M ago19:57

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Send us a text Exodus 20:8 Kjv Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.By Claudia Reid

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TYPE MEET ANTITYPE Pt 1 1:58:20

12M ago1:58:20

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TYPE MEET ANTITYPE Pt 2 51:36

12M ago51:36

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An Inflection Point in Art Publishing – Season 7, Episode 2 53:28

12M ago53:28

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Earlier this year, the Momus editorial team gathered for a talk at Plural Art Fair in Montreal. It marked the first time Sky Goodden, Catherine G. Wagley, Jessica Lynne, and Merray Gerges were all together IRL. The lively conversation touched on how we’ve shifted from a discourse of “crisis” in art criticism to its material reality; the ethics of e…

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STUDY OF THE MIND Pt 4 1:22:29

1y ago1:22:29

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THE STUDY OF THE MIND Pt 3 1:22:28

1y ago1:22:28

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THE STUDY OF THE MIND Pt 1 1:16:16

1y ago1:16:16

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THE STUDY OF THE MIND Pt 2 1:17:25

1y ago1:17:25

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FIVE SMOOTH STONES 37:25

1y ago37:25

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A SURE OUTCOME 51:50

1y ago51:50

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HUMAN BOASTING 42:54

1y ago42:54

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SUFFERING 23:18

1y ago23:18

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Elvia Wilk – Season 7, Episode 1 1:09:05

1y ago1:09:05

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Launching Season 7, Elvia Wilk, an essayist, critic, and novelist, talks to Sky Goodden about the decision to quit writing—if only to be able to start again. In discussing rejection, the changing conditions of the field, and the denuding of successful female writers, Wilk also touches on the authors who have modeled quitting ("the authors of the no…