Back from Austin and trying to get caught up on various things… Jenny Attiyeh passes along her Thoughtcast interview with Bob Silvers, the founding editor of The New York Review of Books. I’m listening to it now.

Jenny asked if there were anything I would suggest as a question for him, and I said it would be interesting to have him comment on The Gangrene, a book about how torture by the French military in Algeria spread from the colony to the metropolis. Silvers translated it shortly after it appeared and it was published in 1960. It seems odd that it has never been reprinted. Here’s a recent article about it.

Anyway, she says she asked him about the book, and much else besides. Check it out…