Best Yahdon Israel Podcasts (2025)

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Leo Carey: "What's Not There" 43:25

29d ago43:25

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Leo Carey is a senior editor at The New Yorker.By Merve Emre

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Yahdon Israel: "Faustian Bargains" 43:04

1M ago43:04

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Yahdon Israel is a senior editor at Simon Schuster and founder of Literaryswag, a cultural movement that intersects literature and fashion to make books accessible. He brings an entrepreneurial spirit to these pursuits as the founder of a popular book club, host of a literary podcast, creative writing teacher, event producer, as well as his work in…

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Ben Calhoun: "Close Listening" 38:03

2M ago38:03

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Ben Calhoun is the executive producer of "The Daily" (The New York Times). Previously, he was an editor and producer for This American Life and Serial , and VP of programming at WBEZ in Chicago.By Merve Emre

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Sasha Weiss: "Mischief in the Pages" 40:37

2M ago40:37

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Sasha Weiss is a writer and the deputy culture editor at The New York Times Magazine. Previously she was the literary editor at The New Yorker and an editor at The New York Review of Books. _________________________________ The Critic and Her Publics Hosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • Art by Leanne Shapton • S…

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Radhika Jones: "Past the Illusion" 43:14

3M ago43:14

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Radhika Jones is the fifth editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. She previously held senior editorial roles at The New York Times, Time, and The Paris Review. She also was the managing editor at Grand Street, an editor at Artforum, and the arts editor of The Moscow Times, where she began her career. Jones holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. …

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Zakiya Dalilah Harris: "Satire and Sensitivity" 40:27

3M ago40:27

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Zakiya Dalila Harris received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her debut novel, The Other Black Girl, was an instant New York Times bestseller and is now a critically acclaimed Hulu Original Series. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Br…

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Fergus McIntosh: "One Wonders" 38:17

4M ago38:17

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Fergus McIntosh is the head research editor at The New Yorker and runs the magazine's fact-checking department. _________________________________ The Critic and Her Publics Hosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • Art by Leanne Shapton • Sponsored by Alfred A. Knopf The Critic and Her Publics is a co-production betw…

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Jackson Howard: "Risk It All" 36:28

4M ago36:28

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Jackson Howard is an editor and writer from Los Angeles who lives in Brooklyn. He’s Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and its imprints MCD and AUWA (headed by Questlove), where he acquires and edits a broad range of fiction and nonfiction. Writers he has published include Judith Butler, Brontez Purnell, Catherine Lacey, Bryan Washington, L…

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Meghan O'Rourke: "The Glitzy Bits" 42:00

5M ago42:00

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Meghan O'Rourke is a writer, poet, and editor. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022); the bestselling memoir The Long Goodbye (2011); and the poetry collections Sun In Days (2017), which was named a New York Times Best Poetry Book of the Year; Once (2011); and Halflife (2007), w…

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Kaitlyn Greenidge: "Making Artifacts" 37:10

5M ago37:10

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Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of Libertie and We Love You, Charlie Freeman, one of the New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016. Her writing has appeared in the Vogue, Glamour,the Wall Street Journal, Elle, Buzzfeed, Transition Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, American Short Fiction and other places. She is the recipient of …

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Emily Greenhouse: "Your Whole Self" 37:00

6M ago37:00

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Emily Greenhouse is the editor of the New York Review of Books. She is the former managing editor of The New Yorker. For the full episode transcript, visit the NYRB Recorded September 17, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University Edited by Michele Moses Music by Dani Lencioni Art by Leanne Shapton Sponsored by Alfred A. Knopf The Critic and…

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The Lit Hub Podcast: Nov 29, 2024 47:22

8M ago47:22

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We've got some exciting news regarding the future of The Critic and Her Publics—and here to bring it to you is the latest episode of Literary Hub's The Lit Hub Podcast. If you don't know The Lit Hub Podcast, it's the in-house show at Lit Hub, hosted by podcasts editor Drew Broussard. This week features Merve Emre talking about what's next for TCAHP…

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Christine Smallwood: "Why Do You Do It This Way?" 41:58

1y ago41:58

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Christine Smallwood is the author of La Captive (Fireflies Press, 2024) and the novel The Life of the Mind (Hogarth, 2021), which Time magazine named one of the top ten fiction books of the year. Her essays, reviews, and profiles have been published in Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and The New York Times Magazin…

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Carina del Valle Schorske: "The Tuning Fork in the Ear" 40:33

1y ago40:33

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Carina del Valle Schorske is a writer, translator, and wannabe backup dancer. Her debut essay collection, The Other Island, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. It was recently awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. She writes about Caribbean culture, literary politics, diasporic dramas, and the songs she can’t stop singing to herself. Her es…

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Maggie Doherty: "The Problem of Other Minds" 49:05

1y ago49:05

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Maggie Doherty is the author of The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s (2020), which won the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Natio…

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Doreen St. Félix: "Documents of Mundanity" 46:35

1y ago46:35

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Doreen St. Félix has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2017. Previously, she was a culture writer at MTV News. Her writing has appeared in the Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, The Fader, and Pitchfork. St. Félix was named on the Forbes “30 Under 30” media list in 2016. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Columns …

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Lauren Michele Jackson: "Why Not Memes?" 43:13

1y ago43:13

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Lauren Michele Jackson is an assistant professor of English at Northwestern University and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of the essay collection White Negroes and is currently working on a second book, with Amistad Press. She is part of New America’s 2022 class of National Fellows. Recorded March 5, 2024 at the Shapiro …

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Jo Livingstone: "Into the Cave" 38:00

1+ y ago38:00

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Jo Livingstone is a medieval literature scholar, a critic, and the 2020 National Book Critics Circle recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. After receiving a BA in English literature from the University of Oxford and a PhD in medieval literature from New York University, Livingstone went on to write cultural criticism …

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Moira Donegan: "A Gender Emergency" 49:01

1+ y ago49:01

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Moira Donegan is writer in residence for the Clayman Institute, where she participates in the intellectual life of the Institute, hosts its artist salon series, teaches a class in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, and mentors students, while continuing her own projects and writing. Her criticism, essays, and commentary, which cover the inter…

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Anahid Nersessian: "The Channeler" 46:52

1+ y ago46:52

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Anahid Nersessian is a literary critic and Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015, and her second, The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life, by the University of Chicago Press in 2020. Her latest, Keats's Od…

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Hannah Goldfield: "I Am the Cabbage Writer" 38:48

1+ y ago38:48

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Hannah Goldfield is a staff writer at The New Yorker, covering restaurants and food culture. Previously, she was a fact checker at The New Yorker and an editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine and the Times, among other publications. Recorded November 7, 2023 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan Un…

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Sophie Pinkham: "Wordlessness in Labor" 42:10

1+ y ago42:10

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Sophie Pinkham is a writer, journalist, and critic specializing in Russian and Ukrainian literature, culture, and politics. She is the author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine (2016) and the forthcoming The Spirit in the Trees, for which she has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar grant. A frequent contr…

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Andrea Long Chu: "I Want a Critic" 44:46

1+ y ago44:46

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Andrea Long Chu is a Pulitzer Prize–winning essayist and critic at New York magazine. Her book Females, an extended annotation of a lost play by Valerie Solanas, was published by Verso in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her writing has also appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforu…

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Coming Soon 1:13

1+ y ago1:13

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Introducing The Critic and Her Publics, a new podcast series from The New York Review of Books and Lit Hub. Hosted by Merve Emre. New episodes every other week beginning Tuesday January 30th.By Merve Emre

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Angela Flournoy on The Turner House, Segregated School Systems and Listening to Women 1:06:16

7y ago1:06:16

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National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy pulled up to Pink Pig Productions to chop it up about her debut novel The Turner House, writing middle-aged characters, segregated school systems, and why listening to women can you make men better writers.By Yahdon Israel

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Jess Row talks Your Face in Mine, Cop Films and Whiteness as a System of Denial 1:03:01

7+ y ago1:03:01

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Writer and novelist, Jess Row, came through to chop it up about his novel, Your Face In Mine; the perniciousness of police movies; whiteness as a system of denial; and the trouble that inevitable comes with telling the truth.By Yahdon Israel

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Leo Carey: "What's Not There" 43:25

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Yahdon Israel: "Faustian Bargains" 43:04

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Ben Calhoun: "Close Listening" 38:03

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Sasha Weiss: "Mischief in the Pages" 40:37

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Radhika Jones: "Past the Illusion" 43:14

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Zakiya Dalilah Harris: "Satire and Sensitivity" 40:27

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Fergus McIntosh: "One Wonders" 38:17

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Jackson Howard: "Risk It All" 36:28

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Meghan O'Rourke: "The Glitzy Bits" 42:00

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Kaitlyn Greenidge: "Making Artifacts" 37:10

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Emily Greenhouse: "Your Whole Self" 37:00

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The Lit Hub Podcast: Nov 29, 2024 47:22

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Christine Smallwood: "Why Do You Do It This Way?" 41:58

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Carina del Valle Schorske: "The Tuning Fork in the Ear" 40:33

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Maggie Doherty: "The Problem of Other Minds" 49:05

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Doreen St. Félix: "Documents of Mundanity" 46:35

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Lauren Michele Jackson: "Why Not Memes?" 43:13

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Jo Livingstone: "Into the Cave" 38:00

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Moira Donegan: "A Gender Emergency" 49:01

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Anahid Nersessian: "The Channeler" 46:52

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Hannah Goldfield: "I Am the Cabbage Writer" 38:48

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Sophie Pinkham: "Wordlessness in Labor" 42:10

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Andrea Long Chu: "I Want a Critic" 44:46

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Coming Soon 1:13

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Angela Flournoy on The Turner House, Segregated School Systems and Listening to Women 1:06:16

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Jess Row talks Your Face in Mine, Cop Films and Whiteness as a System of Denial 1:03:01

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