The Longform Guide to Renata Adler
Five classic articles by Adler, the guest on this week’s Longform Podcast.
Letter from Selma
A voting rights march, from Selma to the statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama.
New Yorker Apr 1965 40min
Fly Trans-Love Airways
Rebellious teens on the Sunset Strip.
New Yorker Feb 1967 30min
The Perils of Pauline
On the “jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless” writing of Pauline Kael.
New York Review of Books Aug 1980 30min
A Court of No Appeal
How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.
Harper's Aug 2000 45min
Decoding the Starr Report
Ripping out the guts of an “utterly preposterous document”: the Starr Report on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Vanity Fair Dec 1998
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