Isaac Butler

Isaac Butler hosted Slate's Lend Me Your Ears podcast. He is the co-author, with Dan Kois, of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America and is currently working on The Method, a narrative history of method acting, for Bloomsbury.

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Game of Thrones Was an Epic Tale of Incremental Change

Isaac Butler

May 21, 2019 5:25 PM
Game of Thrones TV Club: The End

Isaac Butler, Dan Kois, and Rebecca Onion

May 20, 2019 2:26 PM
The Same Things That Made Game of Thrones Great Make It Impossible for It to End Well

Isaac Butler

May 09, 2019 3:49 PM
The Honesty and Optimism of Knock Down the House

Isaac Butler, Stephen Metcalf, and Julia Turner

May 08, 2019 10:33 AM
David Lynch’s MasterClass Is As Surreal and As Banal As You’d Expect

Isaac Butler

April 30, 2019 5:45 AM
“Everything Always Becomes About Bob”: Fosse/Verdon’s Showrunner on the Trap of Ignoring Gwen Verdon

Isaac Butler

April 10, 2019 9:00 AM
The Inventor Misunderstands What Makes the Theranos Scam Fascinating

Isaac Butler, Benjamin Frisch, and Dana Stevens

March 20, 2019 10:56 AM
Are Home-Cooked Family Meals Really That Important?

Isaac Butler and Rebecca Lavoie

March 14, 2019 2:38 PM
Pulling The Simpsons’ Michael Jackson Episode Was a Mistake

Isaac Butler

March 11, 2019 12:16 PM
Lynn Nottage Can Be Funny, Too

Isaac Butler

Feb 19, 2019 8:00 AM
Paul Dano and Ethan Hawke Are Exploring Toxic Masculinity Onstage in True West

Isaac Butler

Jan 25, 2019 1:11 PM
My Daughter Is Starting to Notice My Mother’s Abusive Behavior, on Slate’s Parenting Podcast

Isaac Butler, Rebecca Lavoie, and Carvell Wallace

Jan 10, 2019 2:00 PM
All Is True Is a Shakespeare Biopic for the #MeToo Generation

Isaac Butler

Dec 21, 2018 7:00 AM
The Media Is More Toxic Than Ever. So Where’s the Rage in Network on Broadway?

Isaac Butler

Dec 14, 2018 7:30 AM
I Would Have Campaigned for Any Democrat With a Pulse. Max Rose Won Me Over.

Isaac Butler

Nov 06, 2018 11:31 PM
Does The Haunting of Hill House Skimp on the Scares?

Isaac Butler, Stephen Metcalf, and Dana Stevens

Oct 31, 2018 10:53 AM
The Most Terrifying Show on Netflix Is a Children’s Cartoon

Isaac Butler

Oct 31, 2018 5:55 AM
Brett Kavanaugh, Conspiracy Theorist

Isaac Butler

Sept 28, 2018 8:29 PM
Anthony Hopkins’ King Lear Is Cracking Good Entertainment

Isaac Butler

Sept 28, 2018 9:00 AM
Will My Kid Ever Go to Sleep?

Isaac Butler, Ruth Graham, and Carvell Wallace

Sept 13, 2018 2:01 PM