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The New Yorker Editor David Remnick: 'There's No Time to Despair'
David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. He joins us this week to discuss his latest dispatch fr…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Transformations of Actor Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe has built a career out of shapeshifting. His latest role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things demonstrates exactly that.
Today, he joins us …
2 years, 3 months ago
Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Fights for the Protection of Journalists
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Maria Ressa has spent the past decade advocating for the protection of journalists. Today, we return to our urgent conversat…
2 years, 4 months ago
Actor and Director Benny Safdie Does It All
Throughout his fifteen-year moviemaking career, director and actor Benny Safdie has been drawn to naturalism and first-time performers. Fittingly, hi…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Futurist Vision of Actor and Filmmaker Brit Marling
For more than a decade, actor and writer Brit Marling has made futuristic work that reveals truths about our disquieting present. Her latest endeavor…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Ziwe Interview
Writer and comedian Ziwe has made a career out of conducting charged and satirical interviews. She joins us this week to discuss her debut essay coll…
2 years, 4 months ago
Marina Abramović Creates Art from Pain
Marina Abramović is a pioneer in the field of performance art, using her body as both the subject and the medium. Today, we return to our special con…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Rise and Fall of Crypto Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (with Writer Michael Lewis)
Upon taking a walk with crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, writer Michael Lewis had a sense that there might be a story here. In the intervening t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Singer-Songwriter Weyes Blood Gives Us ‘Something to Believe’
Singer-songwriter Weyes Blood is one of the most inventive musicians working today. One year ago, she released her prescient album And in the Darknes…
2 years, 5 months ago
A Human Conversation with Writer George Saunders
Last fall, George Saunders published Liberation Day, his first short-story collection in nine years. This week, we return to our conversation with th…
2 years, 5 months ago