Slate Culture Feed

Listen to Slate's show about the new Wall Street drama Margin Call, Homeland, and the critical legacy of Pauline Kael. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about Occupy Wall Street, Beyoncé’s dance plagiarism, and the films of Pedro Almodóvar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about the new romantic comedy Weekend, Dancing with the Stars, and the legacy of Steve Jobs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about the new Ken Burns documentary Prohibition, Ikea, and the corpulence of Chris Christie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about the new TV dramas Pan Am and The Playboy Club, the breakup of R.E.M., and the robot job market. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, the iPhone App Instagram, and Suits on the USA Network. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...