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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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On Critics at Large, a new weekly culture podcast from The New Yorker, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss current obsessions, classic texts, and trends that are emerging across books, film, television, pop culture, and more. The show will offer lively, surprising conversations about such topics as how comedy is evolving in the TikTok era, why Greek mythology is making a comeback, and what the great-man theory of history has to do with Elon Musk. Join The New Yorker’s critics for analysis of the cultural moment and behind-the-scenes insights into the publication’s reporting on the arts. New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	I'm Alex Schwartz.
0:02.1	I'm Nomi Fry.
0:03.3	I'm Vincent Cunningham, and this is Critics at Large, a New Yorker podcast for The Culturally Curious.
0:10.5	Each week, we're going to talk about a big idea that's showing up across the cultural landscape,
0:15.0	and we'll trace it through all the mediums we love, books, movies, television, music, art.
0:20.4	And I always want to talk about celebrity gossip, too.
0:22.5	So don't forget that.
0:23.5	Of course.
0:25.9	Working at The New Yorker, we take in so much art all the time.
0:30.3	And our job as critics is to sort of notice patterns that emerge across texts and genres through history.
0:36.4	So what we're going to do on this podcast is talk about how these things fit together,
0:40.4	how we got to where we are now.
0:46.3	So what are you guys excited to cover in the next few months?
0:49.8	I can't wait to hear Adam Driver go again in an Italian accent in Michael Mann's Ferrari.
1:11.1	He can't stop. I mean, and bless him. I can't wait to hear Adam Driver go again in an Italian accent in Michael Mann's Ferrari. He can't stop. I mean, and bless him. I can't wait. Molto bene. He's taking it up a notch from where he was in the Gucci movie. Yeah, I can't wait to see what he does with it. What about you, Vincent? There's a new translation of the Iliad that's coming out, Emily Wilson. Really excited to see whether I can read The Iliad again, whether I'm that literate.
1:15.3	I mean, the jury is out.
1:17.2	I'm looking forward to the new Supermodels doc series on Apple that seems to be mining an essential part of my childhood.
1:28.4	Not my childhood as a supermodel, but my childhood as a non-supermodel being obsessed over supermodels.
1:36.0	It's about that high-low mix.
1:37.8	It's that high-low mix.
1:39.4	Yeah, I mean, that gets it what's so fun for me about doing the show with you guys.
1:42.6	And what I love about criticism in general, It's about friction. Friction between ideas, between texts, between opinions. It's about, for me, the process of thinking through something. And I like the way you guys think through things. I want to think through with you. You know what I like about you, Alex? Read me like a book. I'll say something, and then you'll be like, you know, I have thoughts.
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