Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 465 with Aisha Harris, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner with the audio player below.
On this week’s Slate Plus segment, Dana, Julia, and Aisha discuss summer beach reads with Laura Miller.
On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the critics discuss the HBO comedy Insecure with Slate producer Veralyn Williams, including how it focuses on female friendship and its casual depiction of the black experience. Then, the gabbers discuss Stanley Kubrick’s classic Dr. Strangelove, its relevance to the news of the past week, and what makes it still such a biting comedy after so many years. Finally, Laura Miller joins in to discuss a recent battle on Twitter over a young adult novel called The Black Witch.
Links to some of the things we discussed this week:
This podcast was produced by Benjamin Frisch. Our intern is Daniel Schroeder.
