Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAntony Blinken’s Exit Interview
As President Biden took office in 2021, he aimed to rebuild alliances that Donald Trump had threatened during his first term. That effort was challen…
1 year, 1 month ago
One Environmental Journalist Thinks that the U.S. Needs More Mining
Donald Trump loves mining, and he would like to expand that effort in the U.S. At least one environmentalist agrees with him, to some extent: the jou…
1 year, 2 months ago
Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy
Representative Ro Khanna of California is in the Democrats’ Congressional Progressive Caucus. And although his district is in the heart of Silicon Va…
1 year, 2 months ago
Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme
Sara Bareilles broke out as a pop-music star in the late two-thousands. But she’s gone on to have a very different kind of career, writing music for …
1 year, 2 months ago
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets
Rachel Aviv reports on the terrible conundrum of Alice Munro for The New Yorker. Munro was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and perhaps the …
1 year, 2 months ago
Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director
Introducing Julianne Moore at the New Yorker Festival, in October, the staff writer Michael Schulman recited “only a partial list” of the directors M…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten
With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. An essential element of her success is her confiding, …
1 year, 2 months ago
Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American hostages, who had been seized when revolutionarie…
1 year, 2 months ago
Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”
Willem Dafoe has one of the most distinctive faces and most distinctive voices in movies, deployed to great effect in blockbuster genre movies as wel…
1 year, 2 months ago
From the Archive: James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar
James Taylor’s songs are so familiar that they seem to have always existed. Onstage at the New Yorker Festival, in 2010, Taylor peeled back some of h…
1 year, 2 months ago