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  1. 6d ago

    “It's Not Giving Homer”: Lauren Oyler and Tobias Haberkorn on Anne Carson

    Anne Carson is the 2026 Nobel laureate, a translator of Sappho and the author of some of the most beloved poems on grief and beauty. We discuss some of her greatest works like Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband and The Glass Essay.

  2. Oct 13

    “Small, Poor and Free”: Merve Emre and Emily Greenhouse on Magazines

    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.

  3. Sep 3

    Miriam Stoney on The Freedom to be Disliked

    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.

  4. Jul 17

    Faith Hillis on the Jewish Labor Bund

    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.

  5. Jul 11

    Eva von Redecker über den neuen Faschismus

    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.

  6. Jul 2

    «Ich will mit Jesus konkurrieren»: Raphaela Edelbauer über Longevity und Technofaschismus

    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.

  7. Jun 26

    “You’re Doing the Work for Them”: Claudia Durastanti on Class and Literature

    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.

  8. Jun 10

    Biao Xiang on Lonely Deaths, Involution, and the Disappearance of the Nearby

    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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Conversations and audio stories from Berlin Review

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  • Creator
    Tobias Haberkorn, Lauren Oyler et al.
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    35
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Airlift from Berlin Review

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