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Stephen Metcalf
Stephen Metcalf is Slate's critic at large. He is working on a book about the 1980s.
Articles By Stephen Metcalf
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The Culture Gabfest: Only Beyoncé Could Make Me Not Like Beyoncé Edition
Slate's podcast about the new Beyoncé documentary, the dad magazine Kindling Quarterly, and the Oscar-nominated documentary Searching for Sugar Man.
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The Culture Gabfest: Hump the Host Edition
Slate's podcast about the 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, and the Oscar-nominated movie Lincoln.
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The Culture Gabfest: First, We Kill All the Cats Edition
Slate's podcast about Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop,” the movie John Dies at the End, and the feline menace known as the house cat.
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The Culture Gabfest: Love and Death in a Fabulous Apartment Edition
Slate's podcast about Michael Haneke’s Amour, self-help, and Maria Bamford’s comedy Special Special Special!
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The Culture Gabfest: Falling Off the Treadmill Vomiting Edition
Slate's podcast about the year in movies, The Biggest Loser, and the decline of the American shopping mall.
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The Culture Gabfest: Plodding Recitative Edition
Slate's podcast about Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, the movie musical Les Misérables, and the question and answer site Quora.
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The Culture Gabfest: First Time, Long Time Edition
A special call-in edition of Slate’s culture podcast.
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The Culture Gabfest: Trapped in a Glass Box With Dwarves Edition
Slate's podcast about The Hobbit, the A&E series Duck Dynasty, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator at 50.
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The Culture Gabfest: “I Normally Have To Be Drunk Off My Ass To Do This” Edition
Slate's podcast about Beasts of the Southern Wild, why the art world is so despicable, and Beck’s Song Reader.
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The Culture Gabfest: UniBall Vision Elite Edition
Slate's podcast about gay people who don’t want to get married, the lost art of handwriting, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s take on “neomania.”
