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Back Talk: Karen Cooper (Back Talk)

The director of Film Forum reflects on forty years of programming new releases, The Solitude of Prime Numbers and the rewards of being an autodidact.

Christine Smallwood
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Back Talk: Susan Bernofsky (Back Talk)

A conversation with the translator of Robert Walser's Microscripts about Walser's writing rituals, his Chinese box sentences and the beauty of Zusammenhaengen.

Christine Smallwood
Talking With Tony Judt (Back Talk, Cultural Criticism and Analysis)

A discussion with the author of Ill Fares the Land about social democracy, trains and our desiccated ethical vocabulary.

Christine Smallwood
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Back Talk: Terry Castle (Autobiography and Memoir, Back Talk, Literary Criticism)

A conversation with the author of The Professor about her affair with an older woman and the journals of Susan Sontag.

Christine Smallwood
Back Talk: Amy Bach (Back Talk, The Courts, Society)

A conversation with the author of Ordinary Injustice about why the right to trial is no protection against a shoddy legal system.

Christine Smallwood
Back Talk: E.L. Doctorow (Back Talk, Fiction)

A conversation with the author of Homer and Langley about opting out.

Christine Smallwood
Back Talk: Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor (Historical Books, Back Talk)

A conversation with the authors of On Kindness.

Christine Smallwood
Back Talk: Philip Alcabes (Health and Disease, Back Talk)

Epidemiologist Philip Alcabes discusses the social fears surrounding epidemics and why risk can't be eliminated from life.

Christine Smallwood
Back Talk: Peter Singer (Back Talk, World)

A conversation with the author of The Life You Can Save about charitable giving and the utility monster argument.

Christine Smallwood
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