Released:
2014-06-07

Overview:
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.

Directors:
Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi

Runtime:
1h 35min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Michael Chabon
  as
  Himself
• 
  Norman Mailer
  as
  Himself
• 
  Joan Didion
  as
  Herself
• 
  Barbara Epstein
  as
  Herself
• 
  Elizabeth Hardwick
  as
  Herself