Conversations and audio stories from Berlin Review
Why does so much political feeling produce so little political change? Recorded live at the Volksbühne, Catherine Liu, Sarah Stein Lubrano and Lea Ypi talk about how trauma became the language of politics, what it leaves out, and how the left can start winning again.
Yale philosopher Lily Hu refuses to use AI in her own work and bans it in her classroom. She talks with Tobias Haberkorn about why a certain kind of philosophy is about to have its lunch eaten, why her older colleagues are less worried than her younger ones, and what the humanities are for when they no longer get you a job.
Anne Carson is the 2026 Nobel laureate, a translator of Sappho and the author of some of the most beloved poems on grief and beauty. We discuss some of her greatest works like Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband and The Glass Essay.
The editor of The New York Review of Books and a New Yorker critic on what magazines are for, and whether it's better to be big and rich or small and free.