NYIH Conversations

Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and Pinochio in Venice. He was one of the early supporters of electronic fiction, which he defended in “The End of Books,” a 1992 New York Times essay. Coover established Brown University’s MFA program in Digital Language Arts, and teaches courses on experimental narrative and literary hypermedia.

In this week’s episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear a lecture on the revival of narrative in history by Laurence Stone. Professor Stone taught at Princeton from 1963 to 1990. He died in 1991. He is best known for his books The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641, The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642, and Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800.

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In the episode of Conversations from the Institute, we hear from Eyal Press, who is the author of Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America (2006), Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times (2012), and Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, which won the Hillman Prize.

In the fall of 2002 he spoke about his book with Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (2010), and Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize.

Myself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run Adam's discussion with the comic book artist and journalist, Joe Sacco.

Institute fellow Ben Ratliff talks with Kelefa Sanneh about his new book, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres, which tells the story of popular music during the past fifty years.

Myself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run the second half of Adam's discussion with the musician, writer and professor, George Lewis.

Myself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run Adam's discussion with the musician, writer and professor, George Lewis.

Myself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run Adam's discussion with the critic Margo Jefferson, an Institute fellow, and Pulitzer Prize winner.

During the Covid shutdown, musician Richard Sears and critic Adam Shatz collaborated on a podcast, Myself With Others. In this episode of the NYIH podcast, we talk to them about the podcast's origins and ambitions.

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, is Luke Menand’s fourth book. His last, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history. Menand is a professor of English at Harvard, and a staff writer forThe New Yorker magazine