Culture Gabfest
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New York Times critic Dwight Garner says “The Slate Culture Gabfest is one of the highlights of my week.” The award-winning Culturefest features critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner debating the week in culture, from highbrow to pop. For more of Slate’s culture podcasts, check out the Slate Culture feed.Want more Culture Gabfest? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the Culture Gabfest show page. Or, visit slate.com/cultureplus to get access wherever you listen.
Episodes
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Mar 19, 2014 • 44min
The Culture Gabfest: Prime Directive Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss FX's Cold War era throwback television show The Americans, whether Amazon is ruining literature, and the matriculation of trigger warnings into the college classroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 12, 2014 • 53min
The Culture Gabfest: All Aboard the Model Train Edition
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Mar 5, 2014 • 53min
The Culture Gabfest: Travoltified Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the Oscar's highs and lows, Atlantic's article, "The Dark Power of Fraternities" with Slate's Mike Pesca, and why looking normal is the new fashion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 26, 2014 • 52min
The Culture Gabfest: There is No Dana. There is Only Zuul Edition.
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the legacy of actor, writer, director and Ghostbuster Harold Ramis, Disney's latest animated juggernaut, and why writers are the worst procrastinators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 19, 2014 • 49min
The Culture Gabfest: The Doe-Eyed Triangle Player Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss Amazon's online comedy sensation Transparent, the Italian Oscar contender The Great Beauty, and is the great era of branding coming to a close. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 12, 2014 • 41min
The Culture Gabfest: Piece of Resistance Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the latest toy-cum-blockbuster movie Legos, what Sochi reveals about Russia and the American imagination with cultural reporter Masha Gessen, and Twitter's history problem with Slate's Rebecca Onion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 5, 2014 • 41min
The Culture Gabfest: Oh My God It's Rosanne Cash Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens are joined in the studios by Rosanne Cash to talk about her latest album The River and The Thread and New York Times Theater critic Jason Zinoman discusses the legacy of the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 29, 2014 • 40min
The Culture Gabfest: Dana's Coming at You With a Big Wheel of Cheese Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the dark horse of this year's Best Picture nominees, Philomena, the webseries-turned-Comedy Central show Broad City, and Atlantic editor Scott Sossel's new book, My Age of Anxiety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 22, 2014 • 55min
The Culture Gabfest: (picnic, lightning) Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and David Haglund discuss Lena Dunham's photoshopped Vogue photo spread, Woody Allen's troubling personal life and their favorite literary punctuations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 15, 2014 • 45min
The Culture Gabfest: From Now on This Gabfest is a Space for Silent Reflection Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss HBO's "True Detectives," Will Farrell's mini-series parody "Spoils of Babylon," and the dearth of African American recording artists on the billboard charts in 2013 with Slate contributor Chris Molanphy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
