New Yorker: Outloud
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Thomas Mallon on alternative history in fiction
This week in the magazine, Thomas Mallon writes about alternative ...
This week in the magazine, Thomas Mallon writes about alternative history--fiction in which the South wins the Civil War, and J.F.K. lives. Here Mallon talks with Blake Eskin about how writing alt-history can be more challenging than writing a historical novel, and which moment from the past Mallon would most like to change.
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Jill Lepore on birth control, abortion, and American politics
This week in the magazine, Jill Lepore writes about the ...
This week in the magazine, Jill Lepore writes about the history of Planned Parenthood. Here Lepore talks with Blake Eskin about why Margaret Sanger started the American Birth Control League, why many conservatives supported Planned Parenthood for decades, and how an organization that set out to prevent abortions came to provide them--and found itself in the political crosshairs.
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Daniel Mendelsohn on a slimmer, faster Iliad
This week in the magazine, Daniel Mendelsohn reviews a new, ...
This week in the magazine, Daniel Mendelsohn reviews a new, slimmer version of Homer's Iliad, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Here Mendelsohn talks with Blake Eskin about where this new translation fits into the age-old argument over the authorship of the Iliad, and what's at stake.
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Mark Alan Stamaty on storytelling, cartoons, and his artist parents.
This week in the magazine, cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty remembers ...
This week in the magazine, cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty remembers growing up with two cartoonist parents. Here Blake Eskin talks with Stamaty about the shift from gag cartoons and the rise of undergound comics, and about what motivates his own work, be it a children's book or a political satire.
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Elif Batuman on biodiversity and birdwatching in northeastern Turkey
This week in the magazine, Elif Batuman travels to Kars, ...
This week in the magazine, Elif Batuman travels to Kars, a city in northeastern Turkey, to visit an ornithologist. Here Blake Eskin talks with Batuman about the history of Kars, the challenges facing wildlife there, and how the human world and the natural world are interwoven.
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Michael Specter on an alternative to the war on drugs
This week in the magazine, Michael Specter looks at Portugal ...
This week in the magazine, Michael Specter looks at Portugal a decade after it decriminalized personal drug use. Here Specter talks with Blake Eskin about why it makes sense to treat drug abuse as a public-health problem rather than a crime, and what lessons the U.S. could take from Portugal's example.
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Akash Kapur on modernization and rural life
This week in the magazine, Akash Kapur visits a shandy, ...
This week in the magazine, Akash Kapur visits a shandy, or cow market, to see how India's economic rise is changing rural life. Here Kapur talks with Blake Eskin about how difficult it's become to make a living as a cow broker, how the place where he grew up has been transformed, and what its like to raise his own children there.
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John Colapinto on the business of naming
This week in the magazine, John Colapinto writes about the ...
This week in the magazine, John Colapinto writes about the art and science of brand names, and Lexicon Branding, the company behind names such as BlackBerry, PowerBook, and Swiffer. Here Blake Eskin talks with Colapinto about the naming process, and what makes a good or bad name.
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Jenny Diski on shoplifting
This week in the magazine, Jenny Diski reviews Rachel Shteir's ...
This week in the magazine, Jenny Diski reviews Rachel Shteir's new cultural history of shoplifting, "The Steal." Here Diski talks with Blake Eskin about her own history of shoplifting, why people assume that women shoplift more than men, and the recent London riots.
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Ariel Levy on sexual revolutions
This week in the magazine, Ariel Levy writes about Wilhelm ...
This week in the magazine, Ariel Levy writes about Wilhelm Reich, the creator of the orgone box, and some of the sexual revolutions that preceded him. Here Blake Eskin talks with Levy about Reich's idea that sexual health leads to social health, why all sexual revolutions think they have discovered something new, and how our current cultural moment isn't as sexually fulfilling as it appears to be.
