Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Uniball Vision Elite Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the end of handwriting and Philip Hensher's book "The Missing Ink," Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "Antifragile" and the idea of "neo...
5 Dec 201246min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Slut on a Hot Tin Roof Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor in the Lifetime film "Liz and Dick," and the photo sharing app Snapchat. Plus Slate's Seth Steven...
28 Nov 201241min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Drooping and Slumping Toward Insanity Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Pete Wells' epic New York Times review/takedown of Guy Fieri's restaurant, Philip Roth's retirement and the Rolling Stones' lack th...
21 Nov 201242min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: What Is Stuffed Inside of What Is Stuffed Inside of What Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the new James Bond film "Skyfall" and a list of the ten best American essays since 1950, plus Dan Pashman from The Sporkful podcast...
14 Nov 201243min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: On Tenterhooks Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and John Swansburg discuss the new Denzel Washington film "Flight," George Lucas selling Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise to Disney, and Twitter hashta...
7 Nov 201243min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Frankenfest Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, Jody Rosen and David Haglund discuss Twitter's role in Hurricane Sandy, the new ABC drama "Nashville," and Haglund's piece on Mormon intellectuals. Hosted...
1 Nov 201240min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Why Did You Give Me That Bag of Skittles Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the 40th anniversary of "Free to Be You and Me" with Slate's Dan Kois, Saturday Night Live's presidential debate parodies, and the ...
24 Okt 201249min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: I Did it for the Lulz Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the new Ben Affleck film "Argo" and the foodie institution "Cooks Illustrated," plus Gawker's Adrian Chen comes in to discuss his c...
17 Okt 201248min
