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Safia Elhillo on Vulnerability and Anger in “Girls That Never Die”
Episode 655
The poet Safia Elhillo first found her voice onstage, performing in youth poetry slams in Washington, D.C., where she grew up, the child of Sudanese …
3 years, 2 months ago
The Man Who Escaped from Auschwitz to Warn the World
Episode 654
Rudolf Vrba was sent to Auschwitz at the age of seventeen, and, because he was young and in good health, he was not killed immediately but put to lab…
3 years, 2 months ago
Mike White on the New Season of “The White Lotus” in Sicily
Episode 653
The first season of “The White Lotus” won ten Emmy Awards and was a critics’ favorite. A dark satire of the privileged, the show chronicled the visit…
3 years, 2 months ago
Russell Moore on Christian Nationalism
Episode 652
Russell Moore, a prominent figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, resigned over the church’s response to racism—which Moore considers a sin—and d…
3 years, 2 months ago
Mayor Francis Suarez’s View from Miami
Episode 651
Francis Suarez, the Republican mayor of Miami, is popular in the city he governs, and increasingly prominent beyond it. Conservative voices as dispar…
3 years, 2 months ago
U2’s Bono Talks with David Remnick—Live
Episode 650
Last month, The New Yorker published a Personal History about growing up in Ireland during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. It covers the interfai…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks and Martin McDonagh, Live at The New Yorker Festival
Episode 649
This year’s New Yorker Festival featured two conversations with renowned playwrights: Suzan-Lori Parks and Martin McDonagh. Parks, the first African …
3 years, 2 months ago
The Vulnerabilities of our Voting Machines, and How to Secure Them
Episode 648
The security of voting has become a huge topic of concern. That’s especially true after 2020, when it became an article of faith for Trump supporters…
3 years, 2 months ago
In Defense of the Comic Novel: Andrew Sean Greer Talks “Less is Lost”
Episode 647
Arthur Less is a novelist—a “minor American novelist,” to be precise. He’s a man whose biggest talent seems to be taking a problem and making it five…
3 years, 3 months ago
Tom Stoppard on “Leopoldstadt,” and Geena Davis talks with Michael Schulman
Episode 646
Tom Stoppard has been a fixture on Broadway since his famous early play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” travelled there in 1967. Stoppard i…
3 years, 3 months ago