The New York Review turns 45!
Note: this interview has been picked up by the public radio station WGBH, in Boston, and its sister stations WCAI and WNAN.
The venerable New York Review of Books was launched amidst a newspaper strike in the winter of 1963, and has continued unabated ever since. Devoted to intensive and nuanced coverage of politics, the arts, literature, science (and now movies and the Internet!), the paper, as it’s called, is considered to be the premiere journal of the American intellectual elite.
Robert Silvers, its longtime editor, who shared the post with Barbara Epstein until her death in 2006, spoke with ThoughtCast in the WNYC studios in New York.
Click here: 
to listen (40 minutes).
Note: Scott McLemee, who writes the Intellectual Affairs column each week at Inside Higher Ed, contributed an excellent question to the interview – thanks!
Tags: barbara epstein, george soros, israel lobby, jenny attiyeh, mary mccarthy, new york review of books, norman mailer, robert silvers, thoughtcast, tony judt
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 am
Ms Attiyeh:
Congratulations on your great interview with Mr Silvers. We enjoyed it here in Chile.
December 6th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Excellent interview with Bob Silvers, interesting questions. I could have listened to much more.
thank you
Helena
December 13th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
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