Mat Cusick

Oct 17, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Emma Minor |Josephine Houman |Alexander Sorondo |Mat Cusick

“Allegory of Sight“ (1659) | Jan van Kessel / CC0 1.0Like William Blake, Becca Rothfeld believes that “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”  A widely praised young critic (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Prize for Criticism and the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism), Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for The Washington Post, an editor at the Point, and a contributing editor at Boston Review.

Oct 15, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Hannah Berman |Mat Cusick |Nicole Hemmer |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Artificial Intelligence Concept Collage (2024)| KitohodkA / ShutterstockEmily Nussbaum is a highly celebrated intellectual and writer. She has written for the New Yorker for several years, first as a television critic, then as a staff writer. She’s the author of I Like to Watch, a collection of essays about her television hot takes; she’s also a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic. Her newest book, Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV (Random House, 2024), was published this June to great fanfare.

Mar 4, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Josephine Houman |Mat Cusick |Wendy Doniger |Chiara Bottici

Image credit: Henri-Edmond Cross “Venice: Night of the Festival of the Redeemer” (1903). Met Open Access. Content note: this piece contains extensive discussion of eating disorders. The summer I got my period was the summer I stopped eating.