Private Life: A New York Review Podcast

In this episode of Private Life , Daniel Mendelsohn joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss his 2025 translation of Homer’s Odyssey and Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film adaptation, premiering this week. They discuss the...

In this episode of Private Life, the poet and writer Eileen Myles reads Geoffrey O'Brien's essay on Frank O'Hara, ” The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street ,” from The New York Review of Books‘ December 2, 1993, issue. It is...

In this episode of Private Life , Robert Glück joins Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about his books, the characters that shaped his stories, and Geoffrey O’Brien’s essay “ The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street ”...

In this episode of Private Life , Langdon Hammer reads Helen Vendler’s essay, “ Chronicles of Love and Loss ,” from the May 11, 1995, issue of The New York Review of Books . The essay reviews James Merill’s posthumous...

This episode of Private Life is a reading from the forthcoming New York Review Books collection of Eve Babitz’s writing, Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were) , edited and with an introduction by Lili Anolik. It...

In this episode of Private Life , Matthew Aucoin joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss the state of music criticism, the work of music composition, and the life and writing of Aucoin’s former professor and mentor, the poetry...

In this episode of Private Life , Lili Anolik joins Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about the life and legacy of Eve Babitz, in honor of the publication of New York Review Books’s Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But...

In the May 27, 2010, issue of The New York Review of Books , Ingrid D. Rowland wrote “Radiant, Angry Caravaggio,” a look at the tempestuous life and brilliant art of the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. For...

In this episode of Private Life, the art historian Ingrid D. Rowland joins Jarrett Earnest for an in-depth discussion about art history and disegno , an Italian word for “design” that was also a Renaissance-era concept...

Private Life presents a bonus episode from our friends at Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast . Produced by the eponymous art gallery, Dialogues brings together artists, creatives, and intellectuals in conversation...

In the October 21, 1999, issue of The New York Review of Books , Martin Filler wrote “Ghosts in the House,” about Frank Gehry’s life and work at the turn of the century, including the architect’s own house in Santa...

In this episode of Private Life, Martin Filler joins Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about architecture criticism, Frank Gehry, and the art that makes us weep. Martin Filler is a longtime contributor to The New York...

In March 2019 Namwali Serpell wrote for the NYR Online about a choose-your-own-adventure-style episode of the television show Black Mirror , Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hannah Arendt, and Violet Allen’s story “The Venus...

In this episode of Private Life , the writer and New York Review contributor Namwali Serpell joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss her new book, On Morrison , a collection of essays about Toni Morrison and her work. Their...

In this episode of Private Life , the writer, translator, and editor Gini Alhadeff reads excerpts from Mark Polizzotti’s recent translation, for NYRB Classics, of André Breton’s 1928 surrealist novel, Nadja . Blending...