Anna Silman on Revisiting the Interview

The article discusses The Critic and Her Publics, a podcast series hosted by Merve Emre, which explores the art of interviewing.

The fourth season focuses on professional interviewers across various fields, examining their techniques for eliciting meaningful responses.

Key themes include how interviewers craft questions, listen for unspoken details, and decide when to push interviewees for deeper answers.

The series is a co-production between the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, the New York Review of Books, and Literary Hub.

Each episode is edited by Michele Moses and features music by Dani Lencioni, with artwork by Leanne Shapton.