Culture Gabfest

Listen to Slate's show about the new Ryan Gosling film Drive, the season premiere of Two and a Half Men, and the Burning Man Festival. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Listen to Slate's show about Steven Soderbergh’s new film Contagion, Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show Anderson, and the demise of the US Postal Service. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Listen to Slate's show about 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, the iPhone App Instagram, and Suits on the USA Network. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about the hype about the hype about Hurricane Irene, 4-Hour guru Tim Ferriss, and Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and the tabloids' obsession with baby-bumps. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast....

In this week’s Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner watch the new BBC America series The Hour , a Mad Men for the Anglophile set. Next, they’re joined by attorney Dennis Riordan for a legal briefing on the West Memphis Three. (Riordan represented newly released defendant Damien Echols.) For their final segment, Gabfesters welcome Slate music critic Jody Rose...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new film The Help, their favorite method for summer reading and the recent riots in London. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

Listen to Slate's show about Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the state of the book review, and the return of the ‘90s. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about the new movie Cowboys & Aliens, AMC’s Breaking Bad, and the death of painter Lucian Freud. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Errol Morris’s new Rashomon-meets-Octomom documentary Tabloid and the long-awaited arrival of music streaming service Spotify. For their final segment, they’re joined by comedian and podcast host Marc Maron to discuss his podcast WTF with Marc Maron. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at sl...

 Listen to Slate's show about the end of the Harry Potter film series, Facebook competitor Google+, and the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Listen to Slate's show about Jason Zinoman’s guide to fixing modern horror, the film industry’s all-too-familiar approach to online piracy, and the latest debate over antidepressants. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Mark Oppenheimer's profile of Stranger columnist Dan Savage in the New York Times Magazine , and the Twitter fight between the Village Voice and Ashton Kutcher. For their third segment, our critics are joined by Slate editor Michael Agger to discuss his piece on 4chan's highly influential and somewh...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner are joined by Slate’s foreign editor June Thomas to discuss her new —their riotous past and uncertain future. For their next segment, they discuss the new HBO documentary , and whether it does tort reform justice. For their final segment, they discuss Nick Paumgarten’s New Yorker article on the weird world...

In this week's episode, critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Page One, a new documentary about the New York Times, Stephen's Slate article about Robert Nozick, and the results of Julia's search for a great summer strutting song. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Memb...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss J.J. Abrams’ new film Super 8, the blockbuster book Go The Fuck To Sleep, and the viral video reviving America’s battle over bike lanes. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup req...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turnerdiscuss Dan Kois’s NYT Magazine Riff on “Eating Your Cultural Vegetables,” MTV’s newTwilight­-style series Teen Wolf, and Louis Menand’s recent New Yorker article on “Debating the Value of College in America.” Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slat...

Our critics discuss Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, the untimelydeath of Gil Scott-Heron, and David Mamet’s newfound conservativism on this week’sCulture Gabfest podcast. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic...

Listen to Slate's show about Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, and the latest controversy over acclaimed novelist Philip Roth. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

This week our critics discuss the global reactions to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn,Eurotrash at the Eurovision Song Contest, and the raunchy new comedy Bridesmaids. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the latest documentary from Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the earliest cave paintings ever discovered. For their second segment, they’re joined by Nina Shen Rastogi to discuss Wesley Yang’s New York article on Asian-Americans, “Paper Tigers.” For their final segment, they’re joined by Slate’s music critic Jody Rosen to discuss th...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and John Swansburg discuss the death of Osama bin Laden, and whether it’s okay for Americans to celebrate his demise. They are then joined by Johann Hari, columnist for The Independent and presenter of the Johann Hari Podcast, to discuss the recent royal wedding hoopla and whether it too is a cause for celebration. For their...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Atlas Shrugged Part 1, the new film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novel. They are then joined by Slate senior editor Daniel Engber to discuss Gary Taubes’ New York Times Magazine article “Is Sugar Toxic?” For their final segment, they are joined by historian and New York Times columnist Adam Goodheart to...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dana Stevens and Julia Turner are joined by Slate culture blogger Nina Shen Rastogi to discuss HBO’s new fantasy series Game of Thrones and Will Ferrell’s send-off for Steve Carell on The Office. They’re then joined by Slate culture editor John Swansburg to discuss New York Times “On the Street” photographer Bill Cunningham and the new documentary Bill C...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the classic films of recently deceased director Sidney Lumet and PBS’s new celebrity wine talk show Vine Talk. For their third segment, they’re joined by Slate culture critic Meghan O’Rourke to discuss her new memoir about grieving The Long Goodbye. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscri...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Todd Haynes’ new HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce starring Kate Winslet, the death of leading lady Elizabeth Taylor and the future of Web journalism in light of The New York Times’ new paywall. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podca...