We are joined by author Helen Macdonald to discuss T. H. White's The Goshawk, originally published in 1951. In this conversation, we talk about the devotion required to train a hawk, what one learns during the process, and how White's book haunted our guest.
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Author, journalist, and critic Renata Adler joins us in person for a discussion of her novels Speedboat and Pitch Dark, both reprinted as NYRB...
In this bonus episode, we explain how the podcast got started, detail our plan to tackle the collection, and describe our personal taste in...
We test Dylan's theory that all stories can be classified as either an Iliad or Odyssey by going through the list of NYRB Classics...
