Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. In this run, host Merve Emre engages with interviewers from a variety of backgrounds to probe how they obtain the answers they seek, what characterizes a strong question, how to listen for what isn’t said, and how much pressure is needed before someone reveals something new?
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From this episode: “Sarah Stillman is a staff writer at The New Yorker and stands as one of the most celebrated investigative reporters of her generation. She has earned multiple National Magazine Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant. Her work highlights the lives of people compelled to serve the agendas of the American security state; third-country nationals coerced into labor on military installations in Iraq; individuals battling addiction who are pressed into acting as informants; and victims of civil asset forfeiture. Our conversation spans the full arc of Sarah’s professional life, from her early days as a student journalist to her present leadership of Yale’s investigative reporting lab. As an educator, she mentors students to develop both the tenacity and the empathy that make her reporting especially effective.”
For a complete transcript, visit the New York Review of Books website.
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The Critic and Her Publics
Hosted by Merve Emre • Edited by Michele Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • Art by
Leanne Shapton • Sponsored by Alfred A. Knopf
The Critic and Her Publics is a collaboration between the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of Books, and Lit Hub.
