“Small, Poor and Free”: Merve Emre and Emily Greenhouse on Magazines

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Recorded live in front of an audience in Berlin, Emily Greenhouse, editor of The New York Review of Books, and Merve Emre, critic and staff writer at The New Yorker, talk with Berlin Review editor Tobias Haberkorn about how magazines get made and who they're made for.

They discuss what an editor owes a writer, why the ideal edit dissolves both egos, and what happens when a piece goes viral online but barely registers on the magazine's own site. Along the way: Omer Bartov on the Eastern Front, Pankaj Mishra on Germany in 1933, Aryeh Neier's essay on genocide in Gaza, and the endless something-maxing headlines.

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