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Private Life is a podcast from The New York Review, hosted by contributor Jarrett Earnest. Each episode offers intimate, in-depth conversations with distinguished voices from across the literary landscape—about their lives, their work, and the ideas that shape both.
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Lucy Sante on Pauline Kael, Film Criticism, and Pop Culture (opens the original)
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In the second season premiere of Private Life , host Jarrett Earnest is joined by the writer and critic Lucy Sante to discuss Pauline Kael’s career, pop culture writing, and Sante’s writing for the Review , where she has been a frequent contributor since the 1980s. The conversation focuses on “The Perils of Pauline” (published in the magazine’s August 14, 1980, issue), Renata Adler’s blistering assessment of Kael’s film criticism; the legacy of staff film critics; and Sante’s relationship with p
”A Little Iliad” by Daniel Mendelsohn (opens the original)
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This episode is a reading of Daniel Mendelsohn’s essay,“ A Little Iliad ,” a review of the film Troy, an adaptation of the Iliad , from the Review ’s June 24, 2004, issue. It is read by the countertenor and opera director Anthony Roth Costanzo. Among many other roles, Costanzohas performed as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and Akhnaten in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten , both at the Met Opera, and he won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2022 for the cast recording of Akhnaten . He is curre
Daniel Mendelsohn on The Odyssey, Film Adaptations, and Translations (opens the original)
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In this episode of Private Life , Daniel Mendelsohn joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss his 2025 translation of Homer’s Odyssey and Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film adaptation, premiering this week. They discuss the debate surrounding the film’s casting, the significance of descriptive language in translations, and the enduring place of Greek literature, history, and aesthetics in gay cultural and intellectual life. Daniel Mendelsohn is the Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books and th
”The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street” by Geoffrey O’Brien (opens the original)
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In this episode of Private Life, the poet and writer Eileen Myles reads Geoffrey O'Brien's essay on Frank O'Hara, ” The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street ,” from The New York Review of Books‘ December 2, 1993, issue. It is read by the poet and writer Eileen Myles. Their work includes the semi-autobiographical book Chelsea Girls (1994), the novel Inferno (2008), and the poetry collection I Must Be Living Twice (2015). Frank O’Hara was a writer, art critic, and a leading poet of the New York School w
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