Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for over 50 years. Provocative, idiosyncratic and incendiary, the film weaves rarely seen archival material, contributor interviews, excerpts from writings by such icons as James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, and Joan Didion along with original verité footage filmed in the Review’s West Village offices.
Michael Chabon
as Himself
Norman Mailer
as Himself
Joan Didion
as Herself
Barbara Epstein
as Herself
Elizabeth Hardwick
as Herself
Michael Stuhlbarg
as Narration
