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New Books in Literary Studies156 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you won’t be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books. In it, around 50 writers (Ursula Le Guin was one) have made the case for un-forgetting a beloved book. Now, there is a book that collects 40 of these columns. Find it as your local bookstore, or Columbia University Press, or Bookshop, (or even Amazon).
Like our podcast, B-Side Books focuses on those moments when books topple off their shelves, open...
2025-09-1815 min
Recall This Book156 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you won’t be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books. In it, around 50 writers (Ursula Le Guin was one) have made the case for un-forgetting a beloved book. Now, there is a book that collects 40 of these columns. Find it as your local bookstore, or Columbia University Press, or Bookshop, (or even Amazon).
Like our podcast, B-Side Books focuses on those moments when books topple off their shelves, open...
2025-09-1815 min
The Critic and Her PublicsMoneyIn this final episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione series for 2025, we’ll confront a subject that the literary world likes to keep subtextual: money. The translators and publishers, who usually meet over contract negotiations, open up their books and compare bottom lines, to see who feels like they’re being short-changed, and why. Is there—or could there be—a pay structure that works for everyone? And how should the translator be compensated, when their role is still so unresolved? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se...
2025-08-3046 min
The Critic and Her PublicsMoneyIn this final episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione series for 2025, we’ll confront a subject that the literary world likes to keep subtextual: money. The translators and publishers, who usually meet over contract negotiations, open up their books and compare bottom lines, to see who feels like they’re being short-changed, and why. Is there—or could there be—a pay structure that works for everyone? And how should the translator be compensated, when their role is still so unresolved?
2025-08-3046 min
The Critic and Her PublicsJudgementHow do we decide which translations are better than others?
In this episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione, Jacques Testard of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Adam Levy of Transit Books reveal how they evaluate books for acquisition. And, because so many of the guests on this show have served on prize juries, we compare our experiences making judgments that can seem at once arbitrary and hugely consequential. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2025-08-2956 min
The Critic and Her PublicsJudgementHow do we decide which translations are better than others?
In this episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione, Jacques Testard of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Adam Levy of Transit Books reveal how they evaluate books for acquisition. And, because so many of the guests on this show have served on prize juries, we compare our experiences making judgments that can seem at once arbitrary and hugely consequential.
2025-08-2956 min
The Critic and Her PublicsPractical Translation: 1,001 NightsIn this episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione, another session of practical translation: the reading and comparing of many renditions of one passage, to see how translators make their choices.
But the text we’ll be examining, 1001 Nights, presents an unusual challenge. Unlike with the Proust that we discussed in the first episode, there is not one fixed source text to work with. There were many retellings of Scheherazade’s tales over the centuries, which were then written down as many different manuscripts. What, then, does it mean for a translator to “take liberties,” or to be “faithful to...
2025-08-2839 min
The Critic and Her PublicsPractical Translation: 1,001 NightsIn this episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione, another session of practical translation: the reading and comparing of many renditions of one passage, to see how translators make their choices.
But the text we’ll be examining, 1001 Nights, presents an unusual challenge. Unlike with the Proust that we discussed in the first episode, there is not one fixed source text to work with. There were many retellings of Scheherazade’s tales over the centuries, which were then written down as many different manuscripts. What, then, does it mean for a translator to “take liberties,” or to be “faithful to...
2025-08-2839 min
The Critic and Her PublicsEnglishIn this episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione, we discuss the problem of English. What happens when you bring a nation’s literature into its colonizer’s language? Is it inevitably a kind of violence? Here, we look to the field of translation studies, which provides some answers—not all of them satisfying.
2025-08-2739 min
The Critic and Her PublicsEnglishIn this episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione, we discuss the problem of English. What happens when you bring a nation’s literature into its colonizer’s language? Is it inevitably a kind of violence? Here, we look to the field of translation studies, which provides some answers—not all of them satisfying. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2025-08-2739 min
The Critic and Her PublicsShameIn this episode of Hawthornden’s Como Conversazione, the translators discuss the fraught emotional condition of their work: the sense that not only is their work shameful and grotesque but that they are too, for daring to attempt it.
Translation demands a deep and scholarly knowledge of language, which never feels sufficient. Translators are often faced with a binary of either making themselves invisible or asserting their styles. Many of them are caught between identities. You’ll hear Maureen Freely, an American who grew up in Istanbul, talk about her vexed relationship with Orhan Pamuk and Tiffany Tsao...
2025-08-2648 min
The Critic and Her PublicsShameIn this episode of Hawthornden’s Como Conversazione, the translators discuss the fraught emotional condition of their work: the sense that not only is their work shameful and grotesque but that they are too, for daring to attempt it.
Translation demands a deep and scholarly knowledge of language, which never feels sufficient. Translators are often faced with a binary of either making themselves invisible or asserting their styles. Many of them are caught between identities. You’ll hear Maureen Freely, an American who grew up in Istanbul, talk about her vexed relationship with Orhan Pamuk and Tiffany Tsao...
2025-08-2648 min
The Critic and Her PublicsFirst SentencesIn this second episode of Hawthornden’s Como Conversazione, we explore beginnings. Anyone who has been around kids knows that a good Lego build starts with a good base. In a translation, this is the first sentence of a text. First sentences are so often the most famous lines. They are a place for a translator to make their mark. They dictate the voice in which the book unfolds. But has the importance of the first sentence been overly inflated?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do...
2025-08-2533 min
The Critic and Her PublicsFirst SentencesIn this second episode of Hawthornden’s Como Conversazione, we explore beginnings. Anyone who has been around kids knows that a good Lego build starts with a good base. In a translation, this is the first sentence of a text. First sentences are so often the most famous lines. They are a place for a translator to make their mark. They dictate the voice in which the book unfolds. But has the importance of the first sentence been overly inflated?
2025-08-2533 min
The Critic and Her PublicsPractical Translation: ProustIn the first episode of Hawthornden’s Como Conversazione, we start with an exercise in practical translation: a discussion of seven different English interpretations of one, highly complicated sentence from Volume One of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Maureen Freely will speak first, followed by Daisy Rockwell, Virginia Jewiss, Jeremy Tiang, and finally Tiffany Tsao. It sounds like a lot to keep track of, but in the course of these conversations, you will get to know all of their voices very well.
2025-08-2435 min
The Critic and Her PublicsPractical Translation: ProustIn the first episode of Hawthornden’s Como Conversazione, we start with an exercise in practical translation: a discussion of seven different English interpretations of one, highly complicated sentence from Volume One of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Maureen Freely will speak first, followed by Daisy Rockwell, Virginia Jewiss, Jeremy Tiang, and finally Tiffany Tsao. It sounds like a lot to keep track of, but in the course of these conversations, you will get to know all of their voices very well. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...
2025-08-2436 min
Sacred and Profane LoveEpisode 76: James's "The Portrait of a Lady" with Merve EmreIn this episode, I speak with Merve Emre, renowned author and literary critic, on Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady". I hope you enjoy our conversation.
2025-06-2749 min
The Critic and Her PublicsLeo Carey: "What's Not There"Leo Carey is a senior editor at The New Yorker.
2025-06-1743 min
The Critic and Her PublicsLeo Carey: "What's Not There"Leo Carey is a senior editor at The New Yorker. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2025-06-1742 min
The Critic and Her PublicsYahdon Israel: "Faustian Bargains"Yahdon Israel is a senior editor at Simon Schuster and
founder of Literaryswag, a cultural movement that intersects literature
and fashion to make books accessible. He brings an entrepreneurial
spirit to these pursuits as the founder of a popular book club,
host of a literary podcast, creative writing teacher, event producer,
as well as his work in support of several prestigious literary awards.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2025-06-0342 min
The Critic and Her PublicsYahdon Israel: "Faustian Bargains"Yahdon Israel is a senior editor at Simon Schuster and
founder of Literaryswag, a cultural movement that intersects literature
and fashion to make books accessible. He brings an entrepreneurial
spirit to these pursuits as the founder of a popular book club,
host of a literary podcast, creative writing teacher, event producer,
as well as his work in support of several prestigious literary awards.
2025-06-0343 min
The Critic and Her PublicsBen Calhoun: "Close Listening"Ben Calhoun is the executive producer of "The Daily" (The New York Times). Previously, he was an editor and producer for This American Life and Serial , and VP of programming at WBEZ in Chicago. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2025-05-2037 min
The Critic and Her PublicsBen Calhoun: "Close Listening"Ben Calhoun is the executive producer of "The Daily" (The New York Times). Previously, he was an editor and producer for This American Life and Serial , and VP of programming at WBEZ in Chicago.
2025-05-2038 min
The Critic and Her PublicsSasha Weiss: "Mischief in the Pages"Sasha Weiss is a writer and the deputy culture editor at The New York Times Magazine. Previously she was the literary editor at The New Yorker and an editor at The New York Review of Books.
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The Critic and Her Publics
Hosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • Art by
Leanne Shapton • Sponsored by Alfred A. Knopf
The Critic and Her Publics is a co-production between the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of Books, a...
2025-05-0639 min
The Critic and Her PublicsSasha Weiss: "Mischief in the Pages"Sasha Weiss is a writer and the deputy culture editor at The New York Times Magazine. Previously she was the literary editor at The New Yorker and an editor at The New York Review of Books.
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The Critic and Her Publics
Hosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • Art by
Leanne Shapton • Sponsored by Alfred A. Knopf
The Critic and Her Publics is a co-production between the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of Books, a...
2025-05-0640 min
The Critic and Her PublicsRadhika Jones: "Past the Illusion"Radhika Jones is the fifth editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. She previously held senior editorial roles at The New York Times, Time, and The Paris Review. She also was the managing editor at Grand Street, an editor at Artforum, and the arts editor of The Moscow Times, where she began her career. Jones holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia, where she has also taught courses in writing and literature. Born in New York City, she grew up in Cincinnati and Ridgefield, Connecticut. _________________________________
2025-04-2242 min
The Critic and Her PublicsRadhika Jones: "Past the Illusion"Radhika Jones is the fifth editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. She previously held senior editorial roles at The New York Times, Time, and The Paris Review. She also was the managing editor at Grand Street, an editor at Artforum, and the arts editor of The Moscow Times, where she began her career. Jones holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia, where she has also taught courses in writing and literature. Born in New York City, she grew up in Cincinnati and Ridgefield, Connecticut. _________________________________
2025-04-2243 min
The Critic and Her PublicsZakiya Dalilah Harris: "Satire and Sensitivity"Zakiya Dalila Harris received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her debut novel, The Other Black Girl, was an instant New York Times bestseller and is now a critically acclaimed Hulu Original Series. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband._________________________________The Critic and Her PublicsHosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani...
2025-04-0840 min
The Critic and Her PublicsZakiya Dalilah Harris: "Satire and Sensitivity"Zakiya Dalila Harris received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her debut novel, The Other Black Girl, was an instant New York Times bestseller and is now a critically acclaimed Hulu Original Series. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband._________________________________The Critic and Her PublicsHosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani...
2025-04-0840 min
The Critic and Her PublicsFergus McIntosh: "One Wonders"Fergus McIntosh is the head research editor at The New Yorker and runs the magazine's fact-checking department._________________________________The Critic and Her PublicsHosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • Art byLeanne Shapton • Sponsored by Alfred A. KnopfThe Critic and Her Publics is a co-production between the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of Books, and Lit Hub.
2025-03-2538 min
The Critic and Her PublicsFergus McIntosh: "One Wonders"Fergus McIntosh is the head research editor at The New Yorker and runs the magazine's fact-checking department._________________________________The Critic and Her PublicsHosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • Art byLeanne Shapton • Sponsored by Alfred A. KnopfThe Critic and Her Publics is a co-production between the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of Books, and Lit Hub.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...
2025-03-2537 min
The Cluster F Theory Podcast39. Public/Publics- Merve EmreMerve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Merve is the author of a host of books including Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator, and informs the CNN/HBO Max documentary feature film Persona. She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (Camb...
2025-03-2050 min
The Critic and Her PublicsJackson Howard: "Risk It All"Jackson Howard is an editor and writer from Los Angeles who lives in Brooklyn.He’s Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and its imprints MCD and AUWA (headed by Questlove), where he acquires and edits a broad range of fiction and nonfiction. Writers he has published include Judith Butler, Brontez Purnell, Catherine Lacey, Bryan Washington, Laura van den Berg, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Escoffery, Fernando A. Flores, Susan Straight, Imogen Binnie, Shon Faye, Henry Hoke, Thomas Grattan, Venita Blackburn, Missouri Williams, and many others. Books he has edited have won or been nominated for the Booker Pr...
2025-03-1135 min
The Critic and Her PublicsJackson Howard: "Risk It All"Jackson Howard is an editor and writer from Los Angeles who lives in Brooklyn.He’s Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and its imprints MCD and AUWA (headed by Questlove), where he acquires and edits a broad range of fiction and nonfiction. Writers he has published include Judith Butler, Brontez Purnell, Catherine Lacey, Bryan Washington, Laura van den Berg, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Escoffery, Fernando A. Flores, Susan Straight, Imogen Binnie, Shon Faye, Henry Hoke, Thomas Grattan, Venita Blackburn, Missouri Williams, and many others. Books he has edited have won or been nominated for the Booker Pr...
2025-03-1136 min
The Critic and Her PublicsMeghan O'Rourke: "The Glitzy Bits"Meghan O'Rourke is a writer, poet, and editor. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022); the bestselling memoir The Long Goodbye (2011); and the poetry collections Sun In Days (2017), which was named a New York Times Best Poetry Book of the Year; Once (2011); and Halflife (2007), which was a finalist for the Patterson Poetry Prize and Britain’s Forward First Book Prize. O’Rourke is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Whiting Nonfiction Award, the May Sarton Poetry Prize, the Union League Prize for Poetry from...
2025-02-2541 min
The Critic and Her PublicsMeghan O'Rourke: "The Glitzy Bits"Meghan O'Rourke is a writer, poet, and editor. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022); the bestselling memoir The Long Goodbye (2011); and the poetry collections Sun In Days (2017), which was named a New York Times Best Poetry Book of the Year; Once (2011); and Halflife (2007), which was a finalist for the Patterson Poetry Prize and Britain’s Forward First Book Prize. O’Rourke is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Whiting Nonfiction Award, the May Sarton Poetry Prize, the Union League Prize for Poetry from...
2025-02-2542 min
The Critic and Her PublicsKaitlyn Greenidge: "Making Artifacts"Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of Libertie and We Love You, Charlie Freeman, one of the New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016. Her writing has appeared in the Vogue, Glamour,the Wall Street Journal, Elle, Buzzfeed, Transition Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, American Short Fiction and other places. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently Features Director at Harper’s Bazaar as well as a contributing wr...
2025-02-1136 min
The Critic and Her PublicsKaitlyn Greenidge: "Making Artifacts"Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of Libertie and We Love You, Charlie Freeman, one of the New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016. Her writing has appeared in the Vogue, Glamour,the Wall Street Journal, Elle, Buzzfeed, Transition Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, American Short Fiction and other places. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently Features Director at Harper’s Bazaar as well as a contributing wr...
2025-02-1137 min
The Critic and Her PublicsEmily Greenhouse: "Your Whole Self"Emily Greenhouse is the editor of the New York Review of Books. She is the former managing editor of The New Yorker.For the full episode transcript, visit the NYRBRecorded September 17, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt by Leanne ShaptonSponsored by Alfred A. KnopfThe Critic and Her Publics is a production of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review...
2025-01-2836 min
The Critic and Her PublicsEmily Greenhouse: "Your Whole Self"Emily Greenhouse is the editor of the New York Review of Books. She is the former managing editor of The New Yorker.For the full episode transcript, visit the NYRBRecorded September 17, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt by Leanne ShaptonSponsored by Alfred A. KnopfThe Critic and Her Publics is a production of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review...
2025-01-2837 min
Worklife with Adam GrantMerve Emre on emotional intelligence as corporate control (Re-release)It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. This episode originally aired on June 8, 2021.You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6For the full text transcript, visit...
2024-12-3153 min
ReThinkingMerve Emre on emotional intelligence as corporate control (Re-release)It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. This episode originally aired on June 8, 2021.You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6ReThinking is produced by Cosmic Standard...
2024-12-3153 min
The Critic and Her PublicsThe Lit Hub Podcast: Nov 29, 2024We've got some exciting news regarding the future of The Critic and Her Publics—and here to bring it to you is the latest episode of Literary Hub's The Lit Hub Podcast. If you don't know The Lit Hub Podcast, it's the in-house show at Lit Hub, hosted by podcasts editor Drew Broussard. This week features Merve Emre talking about what's next for TCAHP as well as Lit Hub's editor-in-chief Jonny Diamond on why supporting independent media is important and a raucous round-table of Lit Hub staff talking about awards season.Be sure to subscribe to...
2024-11-2947 minThe Critic and Her PublicsThe Lit Hub Podcast: Nov 29, 2024We've got some exciting news regarding the future of The Critic and Her Publics—and here to bring it to you is the latest episode of Literary Hub's The Lit Hub Podcast. If you don't know The Lit Hub Podcast, it's the in-house show at Lit Hub, hosted by podcasts editor Drew Broussard. This week features Merve Emre talking about what's next for TCAHP as well as Lit Hub's editor-in-chief Jonny Diamond on why supporting independent media is important and a raucous round-table of Lit Hub staff talking about awards season.Be sure to subscribe to...
2024-11-2947 min
Writing It!Episode 35: GETTING THE READER FROM BEGINNING TO END, WITH MERVE EMREA conversation with Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and contributing writer to The New Yorker magazine, Merve Emre. We talk about the work and goals of a book critic; what it means to think about the reader’s experience of our writing; creating a community of readers; and what it’s like to be edited at the New Yorker.
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2024-10-2159 min
Unburied BooksWaiting for the Fear with Merve EmreCritic Merve Emre joins us to discuss Oğuz Atay's short story collection Waiting for the Fear, newly translated from Turkish by Ralph Hubbell. These eight stories, inflected with humor and dread, deal with characters on the margins of society. We talk about the theme of alienation, Atay's relationship to Russian literature, and why so many of the stories take the form of letters.
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2024-08-2248 min
The Critic and Her PublicsChristine Smallwood: "Why Do You Do It This Way?"Christine Smallwood is the author of La Captive (Fireflies Press, 2024) and the novel The Life of the Mind (Hogarth, 2021), which Time magazine named one of the top ten fiction books of the year. Her essays, reviews, and profiles have been published in Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and The New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She holds a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a core faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, where she teaches courses on the nineteenth-century novel and other topics....
2024-07-0941 min
The Critic and Her PublicsChristine SmallwoodChristine Smallwood is the author of La Captive (Fireflies Press, 2024) and the novel The Life of the Mind (Hogarth, 2021), which Time magazine named one of the top ten fiction books of the year. Her essays, reviews, and profiles have been published in Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and The New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She holds a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a core faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, where she teaches courses on the nineteenth-century novel and other topics....
2024-07-0941 min
The Critic and Her PublicsCarina del Valle SchorskeCarina del Valle Schorske is a writer, translator, and wannabe backup dancer. Her debut essay collection, The Other Island, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. It was recently awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. She writes about Caribbean culture, literary politics, diasporic dramas, and the songs she can’t stop singing to herself. Her essays have been published many places including The Believer, The Cut, The Point, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is now a contributing writer. As a translator, she focuses on Puerto Rican poetry, especially the work of Marigloria Palma. Her own poetry has been fe...
2024-06-2540 min
The Critic and Her PublicsCarina del Valle Schorske: "The Tuning Fork in the Ear"Carina del Valle Schorske is a writer, translator, and wannabe backup dancer. Her debut essay collection, The Other Island, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. It was recently awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. She writes about Caribbean culture, literary politics, diasporic dramas, and the songs she can’t stop singing to herself. Her essays have been published many places including The Believer, The Cut, The Point, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is now a contributing writer. As a translator, she focuses on Puerto Rican poetry, especially the work of Marigloria Palma. Her own poetry has been fe...
2024-06-2539 min
The Critic and Her PublicsMaggie DohertyMaggie Doherty is the author of The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s (2020), which won the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Nation, among other publications. Recorded April 9, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt by Leanne ShaptonSponsored by the...
2024-06-1149 min
The Critic and Her PublicsMaggie Doherty: "The Problem of Other Minds"Maggie Doherty is the author of The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s (2020), which won the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Nation, among other publications. Recorded April 9, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt by Leanne ShaptonSponsored by the...
2024-06-1148 min
The Critic and Her PublicsDoreen St. FélixDoreen St. Félix has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2017. Previously, she was a culture writer at MTV News. Her writing has appeared in the Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, The Fader, and Pitchfork. St. Félix was named on the Forbes “30 Under 30” media list in 2016. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, and, in 2019, she won in the same category.Recorded March 26, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt...
2024-05-2846 min
The Critic and Her PublicsDoreen St. Félix: "Documents of Mundanity"Doreen St. Félix has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2017. Previously, she was a culture writer at MTV News. Her writing has appeared in the Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, The Fader, and Pitchfork. St. Félix was named on the Forbes “30 Under 30” media list in 2016. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, and, in 2019, she won in the same category.Recorded March 26, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt...
2024-05-2845 min
The Critic and Her PublicsLauren Michele JacksonLauren Michele Jackson is an assistant professor of English at Northwestern University and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of the essay collection White Negroes and is currently working on a second book, with Amistad Press. She is part of New America’s 2022 class of National Fellows.Recorded March 5, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt by Leanne ShaptonSponsored by the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at...
2024-05-1443 min
The Critic and Her PublicsLauren Michele Jackson: "Why Not Memes?"Lauren Michele Jackson is an assistant professor of English at Northwestern University and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of the essay collection White Negroes and is currently working on a second book, with Amistad Press. She is part of New America’s 2022 class of National Fellows.Recorded March 5, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt by Leanne ShaptonSponsored by the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at...
2024-05-1442 min
Reading WritersFather Son Romance: Merve Emre on Erich Segal's Love StoryReading Writers' first season draws to a close. To celebrate, Charlotte and Jo speak with the wise, bold, and original Merve Emre, who brings news of a secret Plautian aspect to Erich Segal's 1970 novel Love Story—the big book so bad it wrecked its author's career. Or was it?Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Personality Brokers (selected as one of the best books...
2024-04-2455 min
The Critic and Her PublicsJo Livingstone: "Into the Cave"Jo Livingstone is a medieval literature scholar, a critic, and the 2020 National Book Critics Circle recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. After receiving a BA in English literature from the University of Oxford and a PhD in medieval literature from New York University, Livingstone went on to write cultural criticism for The New Republic and currently manages the editorial website The Stopgap with Daniel Lavery. They are currently a visiting professor at Pratt Institute.Recorded February 20, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele Moses
2024-04-0938 min
The Critic and Her PublicsJo Livingstone: "Into the Cave"Jo Livingstone is a medieval literature scholar, a critic, and the 2020 National Book Critics Circle recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. After receiving a BA in English literature from the University of Oxford and a PhD in medieval literature from New York University, Livingstone went on to write cultural criticism for The New Republic and currently manages the editorial website The Stopgap with Daniel Lavery. They are currently a visiting professor at Pratt Institute.Recorded February 20, 2024 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele Moses
2024-04-0937 min
The Critic and Her PublicsMoira Donegan: "A Gender Emergency"Moira Donegan is writer in residence for the Clayman Institute, where she participates in the intellectual life of the Institute, hosts its artist salon series, teaches a class in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, and mentors students, while continuing her own projects and writing. Her criticism, essays, and commentary, which cover the intersection of gender, politics, and the law, have appeared in places such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and Bookforum. Donegan has been an editor at the New Republic and n+1, and currently she writes a co...
2024-03-2649 min
The Critic and Her PublicsMoira Donegan: "A Gender Emergency"Moira Donegan is writer in residence for the Clayman Institute, where she participates in the intellectual life of the Institute, hosts its artist salon series, teaches a class in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, and mentors students, while continuing her own projects and writing. Her criticism, essays, and commentary, which cover the intersection of gender, politics, and the law, have appeared in places such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and Bookforum. Donegan has been an editor at the New Republic and n+1, and currently she writes a co...
2024-03-2648 min
The Critic and Her PublicsAnahid Nersessian: "The Channeler"Anahid Nersessian is a literary critic and Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015, and her second, The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life, by the University of Chicago Press in 2020. Her latest, Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse was released in 2022. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and her writing has also appeared in The Paris Review, New Left Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and n+1. She co-founded and co-edits the Thinking...
2024-03-1246 min
The Critic and Her PublicsAnahid Nersessian: "The Channeler"Anahid Nersessian is a literary critic and Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015, and her second, The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life, by the University of Chicago Press in 2020. Her latest, Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse was released in 2022. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and her writing has also appeared in The Paris Review, New Left Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and n+1. She co-founded and co-edits the Thinking...
2024-03-1246 min
The Critic and Her PublicsHannah Goldfield: "I Am the Cabbage Writer"Hannah Goldfield is a staff writer at The New Yorker, covering restaurants and food culture. Previously, she was a fact checker at The New Yorker and an editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine and the Times, among other publications.Recorded November 7, 2023 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt by Leanne ShaptonSponsored by the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of...
2024-02-2737 min
The Critic and Her PublicsHannah Goldfield: "I Am the Cabbage Writer"Hannah Goldfield is a staff writer at The New Yorker, covering restaurants and food culture. Previously, she was a fact checker at The New Yorker and an editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine and the Times, among other publications.Recorded November 7, 2023 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniArt by Leanne ShaptonSponsored by the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of...
2024-02-2738 min
Intelligence SquaredSix Centuries of Feminist Writing with Hannah Dawson and Merve EmreHow has feminist thought evolved throughout the ages? Beginning in the fifteenth century with Christine de Pizan, who imagined a City of Ladies that would serve as a refuge from the harassment of men, historian of ideas Hannah Dawson has magnificently drawn together an anthology of six hundred years of feminist thinking from all over the world in her latest book, The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing. Alongside traditional feminist icons such as Mary Wollstonecraft, who stated that she did ‘not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves,’ we find perhaps lesser known women such as Qiu Ji...
2024-02-191h 00
The Critic and Her PublicsSophie Pinkham: "Wordlessness in Labor"Sophie Pinkham is a writer, journalist, and critic specializing in Russian and Ukrainian literature, culture, and politics. She is the author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine (2016) and the forthcoming The Spirit in the Trees, for which she has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar grant. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Pinkham writes primarily (though not exclusively) about Russia and Ukraine. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Economist 1843 Magazine, The New Yorker, New Left Review, The Washington Post, and many other publications.Reco...
2024-02-1341 min
The Critic and Her PublicsSophie Pinkham: "Wordlessness in Labor"Sophie Pinkham is a writer, journalist, and critic specializing in Russian and Ukrainian literature, culture, and politics. She is the author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine (2016) and the forthcoming The Spirit in the Trees, for which she has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar grant. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Pinkham writes primarily (though not exclusively) about Russia and Ukraine. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Economist 1843 Magazine, The New Yorker, New Left Review, The Washington Post, and many other publications.Reco...
2024-02-1342 min
The Critic and Her PublicsAndrea Long Chu: "I Want a Critic"Andrea Long Chu is a Pulitzer Prize–winning essayist and critic at New York magazine. Her book Females, an extended annotation of a lost play by Valerie Solanas, was published by Verso in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her writing has also appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Bookforum, Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, 4Columns, and Jewish Currents.Recorded September 26, 2023 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniAr...
2024-01-3043 min
The Critic and Her PublicsAndrea Long Chu: "I Want a Critic"Andrea Long Chu is a Pulitzer Prize–winning essayist and critic at New York magazine. Her book Females, an extended annotation of a lost play by Valerie Solanas, was published by Verso in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her writing has also appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Bookforum, Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, 4Columns, and Jewish Currents.Recorded September 26, 2023 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan UniversityEdited by Michele MosesMusic by Dani LencioniAr...
2024-01-3044 minThe Critic and Her PublicsComing SoonIntroducing The Critic and Her Publics, a new podcast series from The New York Review of Books and Lit Hub. Hosted by Merve Emre.New episodes every other week beginning Tuesday January 30th.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2024-01-2201 minThe Critic and Her PublicsComing SoonIntroducing The Critic and Her Publics, a new podcast series from The New York Review of Books and Lit Hub. Hosted by Merve Emre.New episodes every other week beginning Tuesday January 30th.
2024-01-2201 min
Cultural MixtapesThe Future of the Humanities with Professor and Critic Merve EmreIn August, West Virginia University announced that it would be dissolving its Department of World Languages, Literature and Linguistics. And a couple months after that, my school Middlebury College, chose to eliminate a faculty position in its creative writing department. As someone studying English Literature, and who cares deeply about the future of humanities education, I was curious to talk to someone who has been thinking about what the study of the humanities looks like in today's world. Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg University Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and a contributing writer at The...
2023-12-3047 min
Kurt Vonnegut Radio with Gabe Hudson33. Merve EmreMerve is renowned critic, scholar, contributing writer at the The New Yorker, and Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University. Gabe and Merve discuss Merve's new piece “What is Mom Rage Actually?” in this week’s The New Yorker.Read Merve Emre’s new piece “What is Mom Rage, Actually?” in this week’s The New YorkerRead Merve’s interview with Diane Williams in The New YorkerRead Merve’s recent piece on Italo Calvino in The New YorkerBuy Merve’s book The Personality Brokers...
2023-09-2328 min
In Bed With The RightEpisode 3: Susan Sontag with Merve EmreSusan Sontag (1933- 2004) was a writer, critic and activist, one who isn’t thought of (and didn’t think of herself) as conservative. In this episode, your hosts talk with Prof. Merve Emre to think through Sontag’s writing on gender and on the women’s movement. How do Sontag’s leeriness about identity and identification, her ambivalent attitudes to bodies, sex and beauty, and her elitism land in today’s political climate and landscape?
2023-07-241h 07
Immerse Yourself In The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Life-Enhancing!On Women by Susan Sontag, Merve Emre - introduction, David Rieff - editorPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/37221to listen full audiobooks.
Title: On Women
Author: Susan Sontag, Merve Emre - introduction, David Rieff - editor
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
Release date: 06-06-23
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 7 ratings
Genres: Essays
Publisher's Summary:
Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls “that over-rich brew of so m...
2023-06-066h 17
The Point PodcastSelected Essays | Merve Emre & Tobi Haslett on Susan Sontag (Bonus Episode!)On this bonus episode of “Selected Essays,” Merve Emre and Tobi Haslett discuss the great American essayists Elizabeth Hardwick and Susan Sontag. Merve and Tobi revisit their own essays about Hardwick and Sontag—published in The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker—and consider why it’s hard to imagine critics like them existing today. For more where that came from, check out Jess’s interview with Tobi Haslett from last year and Merve’s pieces for The Point. You can also order On Women, a new collection of Susan Sontag’s writings, with an...
2023-05-2441 min
The Deerfield Public Library Podcast58: Merve Emre on Italo CalvinoThis month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, I am very pleased to share a conversation with acclaimed critic Merve Emre on the beloved Italian writer Italo Calvino, known for his genre-defying stories and novels like Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler. Merve Emre is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, associate professor of English at Oxford University, and currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University. In a recent essay in The New Yorker, "The Worlds of Italo Calvino," Merve Emre calls Calvino, "word for word, the most...
2023-03-2250 min
Beyond The ZeroMerve EmreMerve Emre
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Gateway books
Matilda - Roald Dahl
If On A Winters Night A Traveller - Calvino
A Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Portrait of a Lady
Current reads /Looking forward to
Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto
Quaderno proibito (The Forbidden Notebook) - Alba de Céspedes - Translated by Ann Goldstein
Catherine Lacey - The Biography of X
White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin - Michael W...
2023-01-191h 06
Converging Dialogues#188 - The Supreme Value of Literary Criticism: A Dialogue with Merve EmreIn this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Merve Emre about literary criticism and how to engage with literature. They discuss what literary criticism is and why it is important. They talk about different ways of reading, author’s intent, and the contours of literary genre. They also discuss various forms of interpretation, themes of “becoming” in the philosophy of Nietzsche and writing of Mieko Kawakami, and many more topics. Merve Emre is a professor of literature at Oxford University, Critic at The New Yorker, and the Shaprio-Silverberg Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University. She has her BA fro...
2022-12-191h 24
Always Take Notes#149: Merve Emre, author, academic and literary criticRachel and Simon speak to author, academic and literary critic Merve Emre. After a stint as a management consultant, she completed a PhD and taught English literature at McGill University in Canada, before taking up a role as an associate professor at Oxford. (This year she is a distinguished writer-in-residence at Wesleyan in the US.) Alongside her academic work, Merve has written books including "Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America", "The Ferrante Letters" and "The Personality Brokers" (published in Britain as "What's Your Type?"), about the Myers-Briggs personality test. She is also a contributing writer at...
2022-12-131h 01
Kurt Vonnegut Radio with Gabe Hudson3. Merve EmreMerve Emre is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, the author of many award-winning books, and a professor at the University of Oxford. Merve and Gabe chop it up about Merve’s journey from Turkey to Brooklyn as a young child. What was it like for her family to live in Park Slope in the early 90’s? How did she break her arm that one time as a kid, and how does that event inform who she is today?Read Merve Emre at The New YorkerVisit Merve's website and follow her...
2022-10-2515 min
The LRB PodcastFrom the Bookshop: Elif Batuman and Merve EmreThis week, a guest episode from the London Review Bookshop Podcast, featuring Elif Batuman talking to Merve Emre about her latest book, Either/Or. The London Review Bookshop podcast comes out every week and has hundreds of events in its archive. Find it wherever you get your podcast.Some events from the London Review Bookshop are broadcast online as well as in person, so you can watch live from anywhere in the world. On Wednesday this week, you can watch food writers Rebecca May Johnson and Jonathan Nunn.Buy tickets here: https://lrb.me/eventspod
2022-08-231h 21
UCL MindsMoveable Type Series 1 - A Conversation with Merve EmreIn this episode, Merve Emre is interviewed by PhD candidate Sarah Edwards. The discussion focuses on Merve Emre's upcoming book, Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities. Music by Oscar Wilkins.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/sites/moveable_type/files/merve_emre_moveable_type_full_episode_transcript.pdf
Date of episode recording: 2022-06-01
Duration: 1:08:09
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Sarah Edwards
Guests: Merve Emre
Producer: Oscar Wilkins; Sarah Edwards
2022-08-181h 08
London Review Bookshop PodcastElif Batuman & Merve Emre: Either/OrElif Batuman, author of The Possessed and The Idiot, joined us to read from and talk about her latest novel Either/Or. International travel, Harvard, Hungary and of course literature and philosophy collide in a heart-breaking and hilarious coming-of-age story by one of our most consistently thought-provoking writers.She was in conversation with Merve Emre, associate professor of English at the University of Oxford, author of several works of non-fiction and most recently the annotator of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-08-031h 21
London Review Bookshop PodcastSheila Heti & Merve Emre: Pure ColourWith How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti merrily and unforgettably extended our notions of what a novel might or ought to contain. In Pure Colour (Harvill Secker), brilliantly described by Kirkus Reviews as ‘that rarest of novels—as alien as a moon rock and every bit as wondrous,’ she continues her extraordinary project of expanding our minds to where they ought to be. Heti was in conversation about that project with Merve Emre, associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-04-1355 min
KıraathaneGülşah Şenkol, Merve Emre - "Açıklamalı" Mrs. DallowayBir akademisyen, yazar ve edebiyat eleştirmeni olarak Merve Emre'nin bu farklı kimliklerinin süzgecinden geçerek derinlik kazanan "notlarının" eşlik ettiği The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway nihayet okuyucuyla buluştu. Virginia Woolf'un ünlü romanını bu akşam kendi yazarının elinden çıkmış ana motifleri üzerinden hem de Emre'nin büyük bir ustalıkla ilmek ilmek ördüğü kenar oyalarından işledik. Sizleri de bu keyifli sohbeti dinlemeye davet ediyoruz.Podcast dili İngilizcedir, buluşmanın Türkçe altyazılı video kaydını ise YouTube kanalımızda izleyebilirsiniz.
2022-02-2858 min
Intelligence SquaredThe Right to Sex, with Amia Srinivasan and Merve EmreHow should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.In this week's episode Amia Srinivasan speaks to Merve Emre about the politics of desire and how, from consent to capitalism, we need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon. To pre-order 'The Right to Sex' click here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/right-to-sex-9781526612533
2021-08-0627 min
The Feminist PresentEpisode 25 - Merve EmreMerve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America 2017), The Ferrante Letters (2019), and The Personality Brokers (2018). She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (2021). Merve chatted with Adrian and Laura about the troubled masterwork that is BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992).
2021-06-231h 02
Worklife with Adam GrantMerve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate ControlIt’s been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it’s been co-opted as a form of corporate control, and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6This was an episode of Taken for Granted, but now the podcast is calle...
2021-06-0853 minReThinkingMerve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate ControlIt’s been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it’s been co-opted as a form of corporate control, and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6ReThinking is produced by Cosmic Standard. Our Senior Producer is Jessica Glazer, our Engin...
2021-06-0853 min
Recall This Book56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”
RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you won’t be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books. In it, around 50 writers (Ursula Le Guin was one) have made the case for un-forgetting a beloved book. Now, there is a book that collects 40 of these columns. Find it as your local bookstore, or Columbia University Press, or Bookshop, (or even Amazon).
Like our podcast, B-Side Books focuses on those moments when books topple off their sh...
2021-06-0313 minRecall This Book56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you won’t be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books. In it, around 50 writers (Ursula Le Guin was one) have made the case for un-forgetting … Continue reading "56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2021-06-0315 min
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Merve EmreMerve Emre on her selection:
At the beginning of March, I helped to organize a group reading of Robert Musil's unfinished masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. The excerpt I have chosen to read, from Chapter 32, "The Forgotten, Highly Relevant Story of the Major's Wife," wonderfully compresses much of what I admire about Musil's writing. The story of the major's wife is a story about a man who is in love with the idea of being in love, and as such, is narrated with irony and affectation, but also with pure and gentle beauty.
The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil...
2021-05-1612 min
Public Books 101Novels and Political Consciousness (with Elif Batuman & Merve Emre)Novelist Elif Batuman and scholar Merve Emre join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels help us develop an awareness of capitalism, power, and the world we live in. In making pain beautiful, do novels depoliticize us? Or can a novel like Sakaya Murata's Convenience Store Woman help us figure out what freedom looks like?
You can find complete show notes here and purchase books from our independent-bookshop partner, Harvard Book Store, here.
2021-03-1400 min
Fri Tanke-poddenMerve Emre: Om personlighetstesters historia och pålitlighetMerve Emre är biträdande professor i engelska vid universitetet i Oxford, och har nyligen kommit ut med boken Vilken typ är du? Varför du inte kan lita på personlighetstester som handlar om just personlighetstest, framförallt det mycket populära Meyer-Briggs-testet. Men vad är egentligen Meyer-Briggs-testet, och vilka är de två kvinnorna som skapade detta världsberömda personlighetstest? Lyssna till Emre berätta om sin resa genom personlighetstesternas kultliknande världar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-11-1538 min
How to ReadIdentifying with characters (with Merve Emre)Some academics think that reading a book just to identify with a character is self-centredClick here for more about the episode...Identifying with characters (with Merve Emre)
2018-10-1216 min
McGill UniversityAn interview with Prof. Merve Emre, author of The Personality BrokersThe Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It’s used regularly by Fortune 500 companies and lots of other organizations. Its language of personality types has inspired TV shows and online-dating platforms. Yet, experts in the field of psychometric testing have struggled to validate its results – let alone account for its success.
Myers-Briggs was conceived in the 1920s by a pair of devoted homemakers, novelists, and amateur psychoanalysts, the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. Their multiple-choice questionnaire would make its way from the smoke-filled boardrooms of mid-century New York to Berkeley, Cali...
2018-09-2700 min
Think Again - a Big Think PodcastFour Letter You – Merve Emre (scholar and critic)Did you ever see the 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland? Where the caterpillar, voiced by actor Richard Haydn, sits laconically on his giant toadstool, wreathed in hookah smoke, peers at Alice under his drooping eyelids and says:
Who….Aaaaaaah…..you….?
Even as kid, I felt the existential impact of that question. Not, "hey kid, what's your name?" But who, fundamentally, are you as a person? What are you like? Were you born that way? How much of that can you change? All those chilling, thrilling, bottomless, ego-gratifying questions.
But what happens when the murky philosophy and psychology of the self m...
2018-09-2240 min
Listen to Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenThe Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve EmrePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344609 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing Author: Merve Emre Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 11, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018* *An Economist Best Book of 2018* *A Spectator Best Book of 2018* *A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018* An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter--fiction writers with no formal training in psychology--and how it...
2018-09-1105 min