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Episode 21: Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the Presidential Race, and Malcolm Gladwell on School Shootings
Episode 21
This week: Julia Louis-Dreyfus says that, in light of the 2016 Presidential race, “Veep” is now like a “sombre” documentary; Malcolm Gladwell looks a…
10 years ago
Episode 20: G.P.S. for Drunks, and Coming Home to Serbia
Episode 20
This week: A Manhattan bartender, prizefighter, and onetime bank robber returns to his ancestral mansion in Serbia; Michael Friedman brings us a new …
10 years ago
Episode 19: Father Pfleger, Larry David, and the History of Autism
Episode 19
This week, Father Michael Pfleger, a white priest on Chicago’s South Side, holds a funeral for a young man who threatened his life; Larry David appli…
10 years ago
Episode 18: Maria Bamford, and Fighting for Baltimore
Episode 18
This week, two stories out of Baltimore: “The Wire” creator David Simon drives the city with Jelani Cobb, and David Remnick talks to the thirty-year-…
10 years ago
Episode 17: Cuba Gooding, Jr., on O. J. Simpson, and Embracing Insomnia
Episode 17
This week, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Jeffrey Toobin revisit the O.J. Simpson trial, a songwriter hits the campaign trail, and the lifelong night owl Pat…
10 years, 1 month ago
Episode 16: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda Shaughnessy
Episode 16
The Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour”) talks to David Remnick about her first solo museum exhibition, “Astro Noise,” which cha…
10 years, 1 month ago
Episode 15: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Maron, and the Broads of 'Broad City'
Episode 15
This week, stars of the stage, screen, and earbuds. Marc Maron tells Kelefa Sanneh why talking into a mic saved his life. The magazine’s TV critic, E…
10 years, 1 month ago
Episode 14: The Koch Brothers, the Ninth Planet, and an Undefeated Female Boxer
Episode 14
In this episode, three epic battles: Jane Mayer recounts her experience investigating—and being investigated by—Koch Industries; Junot Díaz discusses…
10 years, 1 month ago
Episode 13: El Chapo v. Flores Brothers, and Jack Handey’s Santa Fe
Episode 13
If Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, is extradited to the United States, he might face two formidable witnesses: identical tw…
10 years, 2 months ago
Episode 12: Sarah Koenig on "Serial," and a Resilient Poet
Episode 12
Sarah Koenig, the host of “Serial,” talks with David Remnick about why her podcast’s success caught her by surprise. Robin Coste Lewis, who recently…
10 years, 2 months ago