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Richard Brody Makes the Case for Keeping Your DVDs
Episode 744
At the end of this month, after more than two decades, Netflix is phasing out its DVD-rental business. While that may not come as a surprise given th…
2 years, 4 months ago
A Master Class with David Grann
Episode 743
David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of two nonfiction books that topped the best-seller list this summer: “The Wager” and…
2 years, 4 months ago
Alone and on Foot in Antarctica
Episode 742
Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and colle…
2 years, 4 months ago
No More Souters
Episode 741
David Souter is one of the most private, low-profile Justices ever to have served on the Supreme Court. He rarely gave interviews or speeches. Yet hi…
2 years, 4 months ago
How Does Extreme Heat Affect the Body?
Episode 740
The Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut was named after an N.F.L. player who died of exertional heatstroke. The lab’s main rese…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Origins of “Braiding Sweetgrass”
Episode 739
Robin Wall Kimmerer is an unlikely literary star. A botanist by training—a specialist in moss—she spent much of her career at the State University of…
2 years, 4 months ago
Tessa Hadley on What Decades of Failure Taught Her About Writing
Episode 738
The New Yorker first published a short story by Tessa Hadley in 2002. Titled “Lost and Found,” it described a friendship between two women who had be…
2 years, 4 months ago
Talking to Conservatives about Climate Change
Episode 737
Even in a summer of record-breaking heat and disasters, Republican Presidential candidates have ignored or mocked climate change. But some conservati…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Novelist Esmeralda Santiago on Learning to Write After a Stroke
Episode 736
The author Esmeralda Santiago has been writing about Puerto Rico and questions of immigration and identity since the early nineties. But, in 2008, sh…
2 years, 5 months ago
Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions?
Episode 735
The practice of legacy admissions—preferential consideration of the children of alumni—has emerged as a national flash point since the Supreme Court …
2 years, 5 months ago