Episodi

  • "Small, Poor and Free": Merve Emre and Emily Greenhouse on Magazines

    "Small, Poor and Free": Merve Emre and Emily Greenhouse on Magazines
    Oct 13 2026
    The editor of The New York Review of Books and a New Yorker critic on what magazines are for, and whether it's better to be big and rich or small and free.
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    57 min
  • Miriam Stoney on The Freedom to be Disliked

    Miriam Stoney on The Freedom to be Disliked
    Sep 3 2026
    The writer Miriam Stoney on the line between a person and a character and on who, in fiction and film, gets to be disliked without being reduced to a stereotype.
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    36 min
  • Faith Hillis on the Jewish Labor Bund

    Faith Hillis on the Jewish Labor Bund
    Jul 17 2026
    In this episode the historian and writer Faith Hillis speaks about the Jewish Labor Bund, a secular, socialist Jewish political party founded in the Russian Empire in 1897. She discusses two new books on Jewish radicalism and the danger of reaching for the past as a weapon in current political fights.
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    46 min
  • Eva von Redecker über den neuen Faschismus

    Eva von Redecker über den neuen Faschismus
    Jul 11 2026
    Die Philosophin Eva von Redecker über ihre These, dass der Faschismus nicht mit Hass anfängt, sondern mit Besitz, auch wenn dieser nur eingebildet ist. Samir Sellami spricht mit ihr entlang von fünf Sätzen aus ihrem neuen Buch «Dieser Drang nach Härte. Über den neuen Faschismus». Sie diskutieren auch über Eigentum, die Angst vor dem Untergang, Longevity, Religion und die Frage, was die Linke dagegen tun kann.
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    1 ora e 4 min
  • «Ich will mit Jesus konkurrieren»: Raphaela Edelbauer über Longevity und Technofaschismus

    «Ich will mit Jesus konkurrieren»: Raphaela Edelbauer über Longevity und Technofaschismus
    Jul 2 2026
    In diesem Gespräch geht es um die katholische Gebets-App «Hallow», in die Peter Thiel investiert hat, und um den Longevity-Influencer Bryan Johnson aus dem Silicon Valley. Raphaela Edelbauer beschreibt die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Optimierung des Körpers und dem Beten per App – und erklärt, warum der Wunsch nach ewigem Leben zu einem Problem für die Demokratie werden kann.
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    35 min
  • “You’re Doing the Work for Them”: Claudia Durastanti on Class and Literature

    “You’re Doing the Work for Them”: Claudia Durastanti on Class and Literature
    Jun 26 2026
    A writer grows up poor, escapes her circumstances and writes about it with a mix of shame, guilt and pride. It’s one of the most classic tales in modern literature, and Claudia Durastanti thinks the story stopped being true just as the genre boomed. In this conversation, she and Lauren Oyler talk about autofiction, transfuge de classe narratives and what could be written instead.
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    54 min
  • Biao Xiang on Lonely Deaths, Involution, and the Disappearance of the Nearby

    Biao Xiang on Lonely Deaths, Involution, and the Disappearance of the Nearby
    Jun 10 2026
    Loneliness is no longer a luxury problem for philosophers and artists. Anthropologist Biao Xiang discusses how it became a mass condition and what gossip, Hannah Arendt, and hummingbirds reveal about a way out of this crisis.
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    47 min
  • What Writers Get Wrong About AI

    What Writers Get Wrong About AI
    Jun 5 2026
    In May 2026, an award-winning short story turned out to be likely written by AI, and none of the editors who published it noticed. Lauren and Tobias talk about the scandal and what most writers, even good ones, get wrong about the technology and what it takes to keep writing human.
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    47 min