# Merve Emre
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merve emre is a Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic. She is the author of nonfiction books The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing (2018) and Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017) and has published essays and articles in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. Emre is an associate professor of American literature at Oxford University.
The Sacred Dark Arts of the Snowflake Hermeneutical Brigade
My guest on the show today is Len Gutkin, editor of The Chronicle Review, which is the ideas and analysis section of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Len, in his freelance life, is a critic whose essays have appeared in Liberties, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.
He got his PhD in …
Do personality tests work? - Merve Emre
Examine how popular personality tests, like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Enneagram, are designed and their inconsistencies. --In 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed a questionnaire that classified people’s personalities into 16 types.…
Rachel Syme
"Rachel Syme has interviewed all the grand dames of New York and Los Angeles: she's had Cosmos with Carol Burnett, she's accompanied Sarah Jessica Parker to the ballet, she's shopped with Parker Posey at Rachel Comey, she's Skyped with Patti LuPone and gabbed with Barbra Streisand on her landline. …
The Frenchmen with Emily Eakin
A deep-dive into the personal lives of the famed 20th century French theorists (all men) with their newest biographer.
References and suggested readings:
Emily Eakin. 2026. The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory. Penguin Press.
Sarah Bakewell books
Ross Doubthat. November 2, 2022. How the Right Beca…
That Back-to-School Feeling
As the school year resumes, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz consider the work—and pleasure—of teaching and learning, reflect on their own experiences in the classroom, and counsel listeners on scholastic concerns. One teacher calls in asking for texts she could assign to combat…
Emily Wilson | Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea
The Author Events Series presents Emily Wilson | Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea
In Conversation with Merve Emre
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In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson--whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination--explores the …
ReThinking: Merve Emre on emotional intelligence as corporate control (Re-release)
It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate con…
ReThinking: Merve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate Control
It’s been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it’s been co-opted as a form of corporate con…
4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Emotional Intelligence
In the early 1990s, publishers told science journalist Daniel Goleman not to use the word “emotion” in a business book. The popular conception was that emotions had little role in the workplace. When HBR was founded in October 1922, the practice of management focused on workers’ physical productivi…
“Small, Poor and Free”: Merve Emre and Emily Greenhouse on Magazines
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Recorded live in front of an audience in Berlin, Emily Greenhouse, editor of The New York Review of Books, and Merve Emre, critic and staff writer at The New Yorker, talk with Berlin Review editor Tobias Haberkorn about how magazines get made and who they're made for.
They discuss what an…
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