

The 50 Year Argument
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.
Trailer

Actors

Michael Chabon
Himself

Norman Mailer
Himself

Joan Didion
Herself
Barbara Epstein
Herself
Elizabeth Hardwick
Herself

Michael Stuhlbarg
Narration
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