Episodes
The writer talks with David Remnick about writing the lives of the undocumented, in journalism and in fiction. Her previous work, a memoir, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Published 07/23/24
Published 07/23/24
CNN’s data guru Harry Enten says that, unless the race shifts significantly, Donald Trump will win. And the pollster Ann Selzer explains how the polls know what they know.
Published 07/19/24
Three masters talk about the craft of investigative journalism, and how the bad guy makes the story tick.
Published 07/16/24
A former Presidential candidate, Castro tells David Remnick why Democratic leaders concerned about President Biden’s age were afraid to challenge the establishment and run against him.
Published 07/12/24
The singer and band leader talks with John Seabrook about finding her voice as a songwriter, and her struggles with alcohol. Welch plays two songs live with Florence and the Machine.
Published 07/09/24
The legendary historian and biographer explains how, from a background in daily journalism, he came to write one of the most revered nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
Published 07/05/24
David Remnick asked listeners for their questions about the Presidential election, and a crack team of The New Yorker’s political writers came together to answer them.
Published 07/02/24
Once a beacon for progressives, the senator has put the left at a distance and moved past centrist Democrats with his unconditional support of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza.
Published 06/28/24
The staff writer picks three pioneering entries to the genre. “If you hate reality television,” she says, “I'm trying to talk to you.”
Published 06/25/24
The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare.
Published 06/21/24
The co-host of “How Did This Get Made?” enlightens David Remnick on the art of terrible film. Plus, the New Yorker film critic Justin Chang praises Coppola’s divisive “Megalopolis.”
Published 06/18/24
Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Party Member of Parliament, explains the upcoming U.K. elections, the “catastrophic” Brexit, and the soul-crushing sham of a life in politics.
Published 06/14/24
Eric Smokes and David Warren were convicted as teen-agers. Even after serving their sentences, the “Times Square Two” argued their innocence. It took decades for prosecutors to agree.
Published 06/11/24
The Democratic senator and Baptist pastor, who preaches from the same pulpit in Atlanta as Martin Luther King, Jr., did, says that Trumpism has exacerbated a “spiritual crisis.”
Published 06/07/24
A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.
Published 06/04/24
Though rooted in the jazz tradition, the singer's interests and repertoire reach across eras, languages, and continents.
Published 05/31/24
Glazer’s new movie, “Babes,” delves into the absurd, paradoxical, graphic realities of pregnancy and parenthood.
Published 05/28/24
Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit.
Published 05/24/24
While the filmmaker, writer, and artist was writing her new book, “All Fours,” the character she created was influencing her own life.
Published 05/21/24
David Remnick asks R.F.K., Jr., where his run for President and his beliefs are coming from.
Published 05/17/24
In lobbying Congress to force the sale of TikTok, a Palantir executive called it a national-security threat—a digital Trojan horse controlled by the Chinese government.
Published 05/14/24
A tech journalist sees Silicon Valley making policy—and lawmakers refusing to regulate social media. Plus, salmon in the dishwasher, and other highlights of culinary TikTok.
Published 05/10/24
For Democrats and Republicans, it’s time to pay attention to R.F.K., Jr. Three writers discuss his possible impact on the election.
Published 05/07/24
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
Published 05/03/24