February 03, 2013

The NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA) failed miserably during Hurricane Sandy. We talk with two journalists (Michael Moss of The New York Times and Sasha Chavkin, a freelance reporter for The New York World) whose investigative stories in recent weeks shed new light on NYCHA's failures.

Roberta Grossman, producer and director of Hava Nagila: The Movie, explains why this familiar tune is a musical Zelig. The film opens on March 1st at Lincoln Plaza Cinema.

And scholar and journalist Daniel Mendelsohn talks with us about his latest collection of essays, Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, just out from New York Review Books.