Culture Gabfest

Listen to Slate's show about Kony 2012, Game Change, and Werner Herzog’s On Death Row. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about The Lorax, GCB, and Dutch wax prints. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about The Oscars, TED Talks, and the Liz Lemon wars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about Downtown Abbey, Moneyball, and the world’sgreatest granola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about Whitney Houston, Valentine’s Day playlists, and Midnight in Paris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about Smash, Hugo, and Super Bowl ads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about Luck, A Separation, and Lana Del Rey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about Red Tails, workplace collaboration, and the “sh*t Xsays” meme. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about ¡Rob!, online piracy legislation, and ill-timedringtones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about House of Lies, the dangers of Yoga, and the closingof Filene’s Basement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about The Iron Lady, the return of the Absolutely Fabulous, and the Slate movie club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about Tintin, the history of the word processor, and the dance documentary Pina. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, vocal fry, and the legacyof Christopher Hitchens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about cultural stagnation, the comedy of Louis C.K., and the entertainers of the year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about The Artist, Weed Wars, and the Kardashians. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The question and answer session from the Slate Culture Gabfest recorded live on December 6, 2011 at The City Winery in New York City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about The Muppets, decorating at home with Deborah Needleman, and Christmas carols. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about The Descendants, laboratory mice, and the ultimate Thanksgiving stuffing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about J. Edgar, Univision, and the 50th anniversary of theBritish satirical magazine Private Eye. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about The Fabric of the Cosmos, Once Upon a Time, and the 21st century’s cultural cannon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to Slate's show about Beavis and Butthead, literary theory, and indie rock’s decent into banality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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 the Beastie Boys and their new album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 final segment, they discuss John Swansburg’s New York feature on The Comic Stylings of Brian Williams. 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 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 discuss his writing for The New York Times’ acclaimed Civil War blog Disunion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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