Renata Adler is a journalist, critic, and novelist. Her nonfiction collection is After the Tall Timber.

“Unless you're going to be fairly definite, what's the point of writing?”

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Adler's New Yorker archive

[7:00] I, Libertine (Theodore Sturgeon • Ballantine Books • 1956)

[8:00] After Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction (Ballantine Books • 2015)

[9:00] "Letter from Selma" (New Yorker • Apr 1965)

[9:00] "Fly Trans-love Airways" (New Yorker • Feb 1967)

[15:00] "Letter from Israel" (New Yorker • Jun 1967) [sub req'd]

[17:00] "Letter from Biafra" (New Yorker • Oct 1969) [sub req'd]

[34:00] Adler's New York Times film reviews archive

[47:00] "An American Original: Excerpts from Pat Moynihan's letters" (Steven Weisman • Vanity Fair • Oct 2010)

[50:00] "The Perils of Pauline" (The New York Review of Books • Aug 1980)

[1:08:00] "Two Trials" (New Yorker • June 1986) [sub req'd]

[1:09:00] Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS, et al; Sharon v. Time (Knopf • 1986)

[1:03:00] Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker (Simon & Schuster • 1999)

[1:10:00] "Decoding the Starr Report" (Vanity Fair • Dec 1998)

[1:19:00] Canaries in a Mineshaft: Essay on Politics and Media (St. Martin's Press • 2001)

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