Podcasts

Audio interviews, lectures, readings and more from the Review's staff and contributors. You can subscribe here to the XML feed or iTunes, download the MP3 files by clicking on the titles, or listen to episodes using the player below.

Joseph Lelyveld at the 2008 Republican National Convention

September 2, 2008
Part I: Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor of The New York Times, speaks with Hugh Eakin from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Michael Chabon at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

August 27, 2008
Part I: Chabon on Hillary Clinton, the new face of the Democratic party, and the mood in Denver.

September 2, 2008
Part II: Chabon reviews Obama's stadium performance, Bill Clinton's comeback, and the nomination of Sarah Palin.

(Photo credit: Stephanie Rausser)

August 25, 2008
Vanessa Redgrave and David Hare
On August 10, as part of the 2008 Salzburg Global Seminar, The New York Review of Books cosponsored a panel discussion on art and politics featuring actor Vanessa Redgrave and playwright David Hare, who directed Redgrave in Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking at this year's Salzburg Festival. The conversation was moderated by Salzburg senior vice president and chief program officer Edward Mortimer. The panel was introduced by Review editor Robert Silvers.

Audience Q&A
Following the discussion, Edward Mortimer invited the audience to ask the panelists questions.

August 18, 2008
Michael Massing on Iraq
Hugh Eakin speaks with Michael Massing about Iraq's precarious future.

August 4, 2008
Mary Beard on Jokes
Classicist Mary Beard in conversation with Sasha Weiss about what made the Romans laugh.

June 30, 2008
Robert Barnett on China, Tibet and the Olympics
Tibetologist Robert Barnett discusses the changing face of Tibet with Hugh Eakin.

Edmund White

June 30, 2008
Edmund White on Marguerite Duras
Sasha Weiss speaks with Edmund White about Duras's Paris.