Merve Emre

Emily Greenhouse is the editor of the New York Review of Books, the magazine founded in the 1960s by New York intellectuals that published Susan Sontag, James Baldwin, or Joan Didion.

Merve Emre is a critic, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the director of the Center for Criticism and Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.

We talked about the dissolution of ego that happens when writers and editors work well together.

Merve explains why our ideas are getting stupider with the endless hollow something maxing headlines, and we discuss some great writing along the way, including Omar Bartov, a New York Review contributor we also published in Berlin Review, Pankaj Mishra on Germany 1933, and Arié Neyar's essay on genocide in Gaza.

I, I think, I hope new drinks have arrived and we will hang out for a bit more.

Bye-bye.

[outro music] That was Merve Emre and Emily Greenhouse recorded live in Berlin.

You can read all Merve Emre's essays and the Chinamaxing piece Merve so kindly plugged at the end at blnreview.de, where you'll also find reviews, podcasts, and stories from writers from around the world.