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The Missing Boater
Episode 591
Dick Conant spent years of his life crisscrossing America by canoe, like a Mark Twain character. On land, he worked a variety of jobs and was often h…
3 years, 11 months ago
Investigating January 6th
Episode 590
With a judge declaring that Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed a felony in his attempt to overturn the Presidential election, the congress…
3 years, 11 months ago
Connor Ratliff Talks with Sarah Larson, Plus Chef Bryant Terry
Episode 589
An aspiring actor named Connor Ratliff thought he had it made when he got a small part on the 2001 miniseries “Band of Brothers,” in an episode direc…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jill Lepore on Parents’ Rights and the Culture War
Episode 588
A wave of book bannings sweeping the country, along with conservative fury over titles like “Antiracist Baby,” seems like a backlash against the heig…
3 years, 11 months ago
Returning to the Office . . . While Black
Episode 587
“Coming back to work is partially about surveillance and micromanagement,” Keisha, a podcasting executive, says. “Everybody feels it, but people of c…
3 years, 11 months ago
Radio Ukraine
Episode 586
Kraina FM is a radio station that broadcasts in Kyiv and more than twenty other cities, playing Ukrainian-language rock and pop. When Russia invaded …
3 years, 11 months ago
Jane Campion on “The Power of the Dog”
Episode 585
Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” opens like a classic Western: cattle are herded across the sweeping plains of Montana, with imposing mountains …
4 years ago
Stephen Kotkin: Don’t Blame the West for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Episode 584
It’s impossible to understand the destruction and death that Vladimir Putin is unleashing in Ukraine without understanding his most basic conviction:…
4 years ago
Pauline Kael on “The Godfather”
Episode 583
As The New Yorker’s film critic from 1968 to around 1991, the influential Pauline Kael gave voice to her visceral reactions: she wrote as a moviegoer…
4 years ago
Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa on the Escalation of Violence in Ukraine
Episode 582
Joshua Yaffa is a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker, but he has been travelling throughout the war zone in Ukraine for weeks, reporting on the …
4 years ago