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.

Recently by Isaac Butler

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Why The Inheritance, Broadway’s New Intergenerational Gay Epic, Is Failing to Connect

Isaac Butler

Dec 12, 2019 2:45 PM
How Tony Kushner Added a Brand-New Character to His Oldest Play to Address Our Terrible Times

Isaac Butler

Dec 04, 2019 7:30 AM
The Resurrection of the Greatest Sci-Fi Writer You’ve Never Read

Isaac Butler

Nov 15, 2019 5:45 AM
What It’s Like to Play Tevye at a Time of Increasing Anti-Semitism

Isaac Butler

Oct 21, 2019 5:51 PM
The King Turns Shakespeare’s Henriad Into the Tragedy of the Obama Years

Isaac Butler

Oct 01, 2019 5:58 PM
The Empty, Miserable Comics of Chris Ware

Isaac Butler

Sept 19, 2019 5:45 AM
Tennis Phenoms Come and Go. Bianca Andreescu Is Here to Stay.

Isaac Butler

Sept 06, 2019 2:45 PM
Podcast Episode Why Friends Is Still a Hit

Isaac Butler, Stephen Metcalf, and Julia Turner

Aug 28, 2019 10:48 AM
Podcast Episode Who’s Your Favorite Grandma?

Isaac Butler, Rebecca Lavoie, and Jamilah Lemieux

Aug 22, 2019 2:00 PM
On Big Little Lies, Meryl Streep Has Created Her First Great Monster

Isaac Butler

July 19, 2019 11:47 AM
Podcast Episode How to Help Your Kids Remember a Beloved Grandparent

Isaac Butler, Rebecca Lavoie, and Doyin Richards

June 20, 2019 2:00 PM
Podcast Episode How Late Night Avoids the Devil Wears Prada Trap

Isaac Butler, Stephen Metcalf, and Dana Stevens

June 12, 2019 9:21 AM
Good Omens Is the End of the World for Dorks

Isaac Butler

May 31, 2019 12:10 PM
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
Podcast Episode 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
Podcast Episode The Inventor Misunderstands What Makes the Theranos Scam Fascinating

Isaac Butler, Benjamin Frisch, and Dana Stevens

March 20, 2019 10:56 AM