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NYIH Conversations

NYIH Conversations

24 episodes

Discussions with the New York Institute for the Humanities' distinguished scholars and writers about their work.

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The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Coover

Published: June 18, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 45 seconds

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Historian Laurence Stone on the Role and Revival of Narrative in History

Published: Dec. 27, 2022, 9 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 46 seconds

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Eyal Press, "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America" (Picador, 2022)

Published: Dec. 5, 2022, 9 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 30 seconds

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Kelefa Sanneh on "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres"

Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 6:14 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 27 seconds

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Louis Menand on "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"

Published: April 16, 2021, 3:16 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 27 seconds

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A conversation with Caitlin Zaloom

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 5:17 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 21 seconds

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Caitlin Zaloom on "Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost"

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 5:17 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 5 seconds

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Lee Gutkind

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 1:08 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 28 seconds

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Lee Gutkind on "My Last Eight Thousand Days: An American Man in His Seventies"

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 1:08 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 12 seconds

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Ben Taylor

Published: May 19, 2020, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 53 seconds

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Ben Taylor on His Friendship with Philip Roth

Published: May 19, 2020, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 37 seconds

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Honor Moore

Published: May 12, 2020, 11:43 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Honor Moore on "Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter Mid-Century"

Published: May 12, 2020, 11:43 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds

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Ben Moser on Susan Sontag

Published: May 5, 2020, 10:02 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 17 seconds

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Deirdre Bair

Published: April 20, 2020, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds

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Deirdre Bair on "Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me"

Published: April 20, 2020, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 23 seconds

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Peter Filkins

Published: April 1, 2020, 3:06 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 25 seconds

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Peter Filkins on H. G. Adler and Holocaust

Published: April 1, 2020, 3:06 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 9 seconds

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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro: New Orleans

Published: Feb. 24, 2020, 6:31 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds

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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Mardi Gras's Caribbean Roots

Published: Feb. 24, 2020, 6:31 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 6 seconds

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Clifford Thompson

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 6:49 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 51 seconds

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Clifford Thompson on "What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Mans Blues"

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 6:49 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 35 seconds

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Vivian Gornick

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 21 seconds

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Vivian Gornick on "Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader"

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 5 seconds

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André Aciman

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 6:47 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds

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Andre Aciman on "Find Me"

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 6:47 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 36 seconds

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Eliza Griswold

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 7 seconds

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Eliza Griswold on "Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America"

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds

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Patrick Radden Keefe

Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 2:44 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 51 seconds

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Patrick Radden Keefe on "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland"

Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 2:44 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 35 seconds

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Lawrence Weschler

Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 2:53 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 14 seconds

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Lawrence Weschler on Oliver Sacks

Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 2:53 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 58 seconds

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Jad Abumrad

Published: Jan. 29, 2019, 5:18 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 21 seconds

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Jad Abumrad on Radiolab

Published: Jan. 29, 2019, 5:18 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds

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Siva Vaidyanathan

Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

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Siva Vaidyanathan on "Anti-Social Media"

Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds

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Damion Searls: Translating Uwe Johnson's "Anniversaries"

Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 6:31 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 48 seconds

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Ben Ratliff: What Is Virtuosity?

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 59 seconds

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Bonus Episode: Philip Dray reads "The Deer"

Published: Nov. 5, 2018, 4:09 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 13 seconds

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Philip Dray: The Fair Chase

Published: Oct. 22, 2018, 7:59 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 34 seconds

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Philip Dray on "The Fair Chase"

Published: Oct. 22, 2018, 7:59 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 18 seconds

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Ian Buruma: A Tokyo Romance

Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 25 seconds

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Ian Buruma on "A Tokyo Romance"

Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 9 seconds

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Rhonda Garelick: Trump's Women

Published: Oct. 2, 2018, 6:03 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 26 seconds

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Rhonda Garelick on Trump's Women

Published: Oct. 2, 2018, 6:03 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

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Kwame Anthony Appiah on The Lies That Bind

Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 6:50 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds

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Kwame Anthony Appiah on "The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Idenity"

Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 6:50 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 34 seconds

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An Introduction to NYIH Studios

Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds

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