The Critic and Her Publics
Hosted by Merve Emre · Merve Emre
4.4from 156 ratings
- 52
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 156
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About The Critic and Her Publics
Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer they're looking for, what makes a good question, how do you listen for what's unsaid, and how hard do you have to push someone before they say something new? Hosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • Art by Leanne Shapton This season of The Critic and Her Publics is a co-production between the New York Review of Books and Lit Hub.
- Publisher
- Merve Emre
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 8 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 52 episodes have a transcript.
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Anna Silman
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Agnes Callard
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Anna Silman
Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I remember thinking really clearly, I do not want to be representative of a like neoliberal brand builder, nor do I want to be representative of a victim of institutional misogyny. Yeah, no. And I mean, I also think that that story has been written and it's not that interesting. And I think if I was earlier in my career and less experienced, like there was a risk, it could have been more like that. But I think I wanted to like give the reader a sense of, like, what an interesting person you were, which is divorced from, like, what, you know, themes the piece might have explored. But I did think that, of course, we had to talk about brand building because, as I said, Business Insider, like, the piece has to be about business a bit. […]
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- Anna Silman
- Agnes Callard
- Rachel Syme
- Orna Guralnik
- Sarah Stillman
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- 4.0 / 5
- 83 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 73 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 24 / 100
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- 9
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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Merve Emre host the show. Published by Merve Emre.
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