Mars Review of Books Podcast
Episodes
How to Live the Contemplative Life in an Age of Distraction w/ Jared Henderson
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Mars Review Podcast is back, filmed as always New York City’s Pubkey. In this episode, Jared Henderson and Noah discuss the concept of “solitu...
Double the Size w/ Matthew Davis
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Live from Pubkey studios . . . In our longest video podcast ever, Noah and Let Me Try Again author Matthew Davis discuss Matthew’s pharmacological s...
Arty-ficial Intelligence with Hansen Shi
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I sat down down with Hansen Shi, author of the excellent The Expat, to discuss contemporary novels, AI, short form video content, the stock market, ta...
Sex, Advice, & Videotape w/ Magdalene Taylor
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Filmed at Pubkey March 11th.Check out our new YouTube channel.Magdalene J. Taylor is a writer and critic of culture and sex, and the author of the exc...
A World of Illusions w/ Bruce Wagner
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Wagner is a celebrated writer of novels, screenplays, and more, including the novel I’m Losing You, the screenplay to David Cronenberg’s Map...
The Literary Beef of the Century w/ Matthew Gasda
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and Noah discuss zoomers, doomers, and boomers, SF vs. NYC, their high-stakes plan to settle their literary beef, theater, aliens, the fourth dim...
Hard Money, Hard Alcohol w/ Thomas Pacchia
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit marsreview.orgA podcast in 2 parts. Part 2 (For paid MRB subscribers only, begins at 1:0...
John Pistelli & Noah Kumin on Tarot, Magic, Poetry, US Election, & Academia
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you Ehud Neor, Gnocchic Apocryphon, Henry Begler, Quinn MacRorie, Adam Pearson, and many others for tuning into my live video with John Pistelli...
The Deal of the Art w/ Alexander Shulan
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lomex Gallery owner and operator Alex Shulan discusses his early days of buying Bitcoin; what it means to say “you can only be an artist once”; th...
Like This Podcast or Die w/ Christian Lorentzen
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Veteran literary critic Christian Lorentzen comes by the Pubkey studios to discuss why he was wrong about Trump v. Biden; how he knows Ivanka & Jared...
"Computer Programmer" is a Fake Email Job that Should Be Eliminated
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Software architect, renegade philosopher, and biohacker Liam Fitzgerald sits down with Noah to discuss why it's good that AI is killing programming jo...
Your Smartphone Might Be Ruining Your Life (with August Lamm)
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit marsreview.orgRecorded at Pubkey Bar & Media House. Free subscribers can listen to the a...
Hooked off Phonics
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mendel & Noah discuss Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul, Trump appointments, who wrote Shakespeare, the meaning of Jesus, and more. This is a public episode. I...
It takes n + 1 to know one, ft. Marco Roth
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit marsreview.orgMendel and Noah sit down with n+1 co-founder, Tablet columnist, and all ar...
My 2021 Interview with Gary Indiana
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit marsreview.orgLast week, the great American novelist and essayist Gary Indiana died. I g...
Turkish Delight
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mars Review Podcast #5Subscribe now.* Analysis of the Eric Adams situation* Is Kanyeezy a genius though?* Etymology of “Lucifer”* Robert Coover:...
I Don't Care if You're Black or White Party
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mendel and Noah are going to make this MRB podcast a regular thing. People seem to be downloading it at a pretty good rate. So why not?In this episode...
Special Edition Israel-Palestine Conflict Podcast
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The other day I was on a long drive with my friend Mendel Uminer and I asked him to explain the Israel-Palestine conflict to me. He began by explainin...
MRB Podcast #2: Varun & Carlos Dengler
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Music by Thomas AmedeoVarun and Carlos Dengler discuss college, Carlos’s reading at the MRB3 launch, why Freddie deBoer loves the ‘90s, accidental...
The First Mars Review Podcast Episode and a Mars Review Event this Saturday at Beckett's
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Music by Thomas Amedeo This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit marsrevie...