Big, Bigger, Biggest
Kurt Andersen and his guest, the actor and film director Liev Schreiber, discuss scaling art up or down — from the huge to the tiny. The grandson of innovative designers Charles and Ray Eames tell us...
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Kurt Andersen and actor Liev Schreiber talk about scale and how actors, artists, and musicians choose the right size for the work they do.Liev Schreiber is one of the most acclaimed young actors today....
View ArticleSmall, Medium, Large
Is bigger always better? Kurt Andersen and his guest, the actor and film director Liev Schreiber, discuss what size means for a work of art. We’ll hear about the classic film called Powers of Ten,...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: The Sun and the Moon
A moon voyage with Radiolab, and a trip to Venus with Ray Bradbury are what we offer on this fantastical program.We invited Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich from the story-telling science show Radiolab...
View ArticleSchreiber, Flarf, Redman
Actors, poets, and artists defy convention. Indie actor Liev Schrieber wields a machine gun in his new movie, "Defiance." A new poetry movement bubbles up from the internet, but it's not all sunshine...
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Liev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber is one of the most acclaimed young actors today. His portrayals of Hamlet and Iago on stage thrilled critics, and he’s appeared in films from indie (The Daytrippers, Big Night) to...
View ArticleLiev Schreiber
For years he's been cast as the inscrutable intellectual in thinky films like "The Daytrippers" and "The Manchurian Candidate." But in "Defiance," Liev Schreiber fires his first machine gun. "Defiance"...
View ArticleThe Distance of the Moon
Liev Schreiber reads an excerpt from “The Distance of the Moon,” by Italo Calvino, as part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “The Sun and the Moon,” hosted by B.D. Wong.
View ArticleSun, Moon, and Earth
We fell into a special mood on those nights off the Zinc Cliffs: gay, but with a touch of suspense, as if inside our skulls, instead of the brain, we felt a fish, attracted by the Moon. —Italo Calvino,...
View ArticleObsessive Compulsive
If you added up all the hours I’ve been awake in the middle of the night, it would come to a year by now. Fifty may be the new forty, but, for a sleepless woman, fifty is the new eighty.—Jenny Allen,...
View ArticleThe TV
This reading by Liev Schreiber of Ben Loory’s story “The TV” is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Obsessive/Compulsive,” hosted by Robert Sean Leonard.
View ArticleBobby Fischer's Chess Game Unravels Cinematically
Actors Lily Rabe and Michael Stuhlbarg talk about their new film, "Pawn Sacrifice," about American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer. Set during the height of the Cold War, Fischer finds himself caught...
View ArticleThe Many Literary Lives of Philip Roth
Philip Roth published his first novella, “Goodbye, Columbus,” in 1959. The work was a piece of social satire, skewering the mores of Jewish communities in New Jersey, where Roth himself was raised....
View ArticleGood Reads
Have you ever wondered what would happen if the ground gave in when you walked? Or if the Moon was only a few feet away? Or where you and those you love go after death? In this hour or Radiolab, we...
View ArticleThe Many Literary Lives of Philip Roth
Philip Roth published his first novella, “Goodbye, Columbus,” in 1959. The work was a piece of social satire, skewering the mores of Jewish communities in New Jersey, where Roth himself was raised....
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