Mars Review of Books Podcast

The Mars Review Podcast is back, filmed as always New York City’s Pubkey. In this episode, Jared Henderson and Noah discuss the concept of “solitude of place,” why Jared left academia, why people can’t read anymore, what’s unique about Zohran, Aristotle and the contemplative life, and more. It was a pleasure to talk to Jared, who truly embodies the contemplative life in the modern age. Hope you en...

Live from Pubkey studios . . . In our longest video podcast ever, Noah and Let Me Try Again author Matthew Davis discuss Matthew’s pharmacological stack, what it’s like to be a Jewish humorist, AI, Kanye West’s new album, why Zohran should listen to Matthew’s inventive policy ideas, the replacement of Sister Lúcia, and why you’re probably going to Hell. We also discuss my own internationally famou...

I sat down down with Hansen Shi, author of the excellent The Expat , to discuss contemporary novels, AI, short form video content, the stock market, tariffs, fractionalized burritos, and more. Buy Hansen’s book! Filmed a little while ago at Pubkey studios. Hope you enjoy. PS: A lot has been going on lately. I should have announcements soon about the MRB and about another big project. My own novel,...

Filmed at Pubkey March 11th. Check out our new YouTube channel . Magdalene J. Taylor is a writer and critic of culture and sex, and the author of the excellent Many Such Cases newsletter. Magdalene and Noah discuss a possible recession, X.com/Twitter vs. Substack in 2025, dangers and benefits of AI for writers, advice for younger writers, Anthony Weiner, dick pics, Osho, the 4G Movement, “becoming...

Bruce Wagner is a celebrated writer of novels, screenplays, and more, including the novel I’m Losing You , the screenplay to David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars , and, most recently, The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers . Bruce and Noah discuss the pornographic incompetence at the center of the LA fires, our civilization’s death drive, Carlos Castaneda, navigating Hollywood, a literary rena...

Matt and Noah discuss zoomers, doomers, and boomers, SF vs. NYC, their high-stakes plan to settle their literary beef, theater, aliens, the fourth dimension, sociopathy, and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit marsreview.org/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit marsreview.org A podcast in 2 parts. Part 2 (For paid MRB subscribers only, begins at 1:07:00) includes: Pubkey founder Thomas Pacchia and Noah on MRB ’s Issue 3 launch with Norman Finkelstein; a story of Israeli journalism/spycraft that begins at the MRB -Pubkey event; Trump at Pubkey; what Thomas told Trump about Ross Ulbricht; Norman...

Thank you Ehud Neor , Gnocchic Apocryphon , Henry Begler , Quinn MacRorie , Adam Pearson , and many others for tuning into my live video with John Pistelli ! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit marsreview.org/subscribe

Lomex Gallery owner and operator Alex Shulan discusses his early days of buying Bitcoin; what it means to say “you can only be an artist once”; the big post-COVID art bubble and how it popped; dangers of art world speculation; Dean Kissick’s Harper’s piece ; the difference between museums and galleries; controversies around Chris Ofili at BAM and Andre Serrano’s “Piss Christ”; the LD50 (which Noah...

Veteran literary critic Christian Lorentzen comes by the Pubkey studios to discuss why he was wrong about Trump v. Biden; how he knows Ivanka & Jared; an early Observer story in which he spoke to Martin Amis, Tao Lin, and as many literary Jonathans as he could muster; “literary consumerism” and his deservedly famous piece “ Like This Or Die ”; the subtle art of the book review; the author whom Lor...

Software architect, renegade philosopher, and biohacker Liam Fitzgerald sits down with Noah to discuss why it's good that AI is killing programming jobs, accelerationism, and how he engendered in himself a second puberty. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit marsreview.org/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit marsreview.org Recorded at Pubkey Bar & Media House . Free subscribers can listen to the audio Part 1 here at the MRB , or watch Part 1 in beautiful technicolor at the Pubkey Rumble . To watch the full video episode, become a paid subscriber and scroll down. Subscriptions are 35% off through Friday, so best to act fast . August Lamm is...

Mendel & Noah discuss Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul, Trump appointments, who wrote Shakespeare, the meaning of Jesus, and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit marsreview.org/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit marsreview.org Mendel and Noah sit down with n+1 co-founder , Tablet columnist , and all around gentleman scholar Marco Roth. In the first half , we discuss what was cool in old New York, what it means to be a writer on Substack vs. an “old-fashioned” writer, Marco’s apprenticeship with Derrida, and the early days of n+1. In the second...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit marsreview.org Last week, the great American novelist and essayist Gary Indiana died. I got to know Gary around 2017 when I contacted him to see about reissuing his first two novels, Horse Crazy and Gone Tomorrow , both of which had long been out of print. It was a pleasure overseeing that project, and beginning work on a new collection...

Mars Review Podcast #5 Subscribe now. * Analysis of the Eric Adams situation * Is Kanyeezy a genius though? * Etymology of  “Lucifer” * Robert Coover: In Memoriam. * Why are postmodernists so sadomasochistic? It’s because of Nazis * Genet, Cocteau, and Jünger walk into a bar * May ‘68 is about the return heterosexuality * How de Motherlant went blind * Mendel & Noah big guests on the docket * The...

Mendel and Noah are going to make this MRB podcast a regular thing. People seem to be downloading it at a pretty good rate. So why not? In this episode, I asked why Tel Aviv was being bombed. It’s a long answer, you’ll have to listen to the whole episode to find out. We also discussed the return of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Graves ancient Goddess worship, Pascal, and more. We also recap the MRB Whi...

The other day I was on a long drive with my friend Mendel Uminer and I asked him to explain the Israel-Palestine conflict to me. He began by explaining to me the theories of the 18th century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder. Several centuries of history and several hours of our drive later, I realized I had just heard a perspective that wasn’t being offered anywhere else. So I asked Mend...

Music by Thomas Amedeo Varun and Carlos Dengler discuss college, Carlos’s reading at the MRB 3 launch , why Freddie deBoer loves the ‘90s, accidental transhumanism, Carlos’s review of Kelefa Sanneh’s Major Labels in MRB 1, Last Ape Standing , MRB and associated communities as a respite from social media, how artists “widen the aperture,” I and Thou , why we need more clubs, why Carlos doesn’t beli...

Music by Thomas Amedeo This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit marsreview.org/subscribe