The 50 Year Argument 2014

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.

Cast:

Michael Chabon
Himself 

Norman Mailer
Himself 

Joan Didion
Herself 

Barbara Epstein
Herself 

Elizabeth Hardwick
Herself 

Michael Stuhlbarg
Narration 

• The New York Review of Books: A 50 Year Argument