The Culture Gabfest: "Ow, Your Cheekbone!" Edition
Slate critics Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Mike Pesca discuss Disney's Sleeping Beauty re-make "Maleficent," faking cultural literacy, and NY magazine's music critic Jody Rosen joins the gabbers to...
4 Juni 201449min
The Culture Gabfest: Sadness as the Bread Edition
Slate critics Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Dan Kois discuss HBO's new film The Normal Heart, commencement speeches, and the new 9/11 Memorial Museum. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you sub...
28 Maj 20141h 3min
The Culture Gabfest: We Are All Going to 100% Die Someday Edition
Slate critics Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and June Thomas discuss Showtime's heady Gothic series Penny Dreadful, Chipotle's move to serve literature along with its burrito bowls, and net neutrality wi...
21 Maj 201448min
The Culture Gabfest: I Dig Your Directionless Fury Edition
Slate critics Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and David Haglund discuss the unexpectedly gripping real-time car ride movie Locke, the philosophical cartoon hit Adventure Time, and Cubed: A Secret History ...
14 Maj 201445min
The Culture Gabfest: Live from Montreal Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens are live in Montreal this week as part of the 16th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. This week the gabbers discuss...
7 Maj 201452min
The Culture Gabfest: Gild This Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss French economist Thomas Picketty and his intellectual blockbuster, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," comedian John Oliver's w...
30 Apr 201457min
The Culture Gabfest: GGMFTW Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss Scarlett Johansson as a man-eating femme fatale in the arthouse horror flick "Under the Skin," the legacy of Gabriel Garcia Marque...
23 Apr 201444min
The Culture Gabfest: The Silent "T" Party Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and guest Gabber Jacob Weisberg discuss Stephen Colbert's move to late night television, chat with author Adam Begley about the legacy of John Updike, and ...
16 Apr 201448min
