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Rhiannon Giddens, Americana’s Queen, Goes Global
Episode 561
By the standards of any musician, Rhiannon Giddens has taken a twisting and complex path. Trained as an operatic soprano at the prestigious Oberlin C…
4 years, 2 months ago
When Snow Came to San Juan
Episode 560
For several years in the early nineteen-fifties, Puerto Rico received snow, right around Christmas. Children in San Juan rode a sled and had a giant …
4 years, 2 months ago
Is the Gift of Tuition Enough?
Episode 559
Élite schools are trying hard to recruit students of color and students who are less well-off financially; Yale University, as one example, now cover…
4 years, 3 months ago
Millennial Writers Reflect on a Generation’s Despair
Episode 558
The eldest millennials turned forty this year, and the producer Ngofeen Mputubwele comments on a sense of despair he finds in his generation, having …
4 years, 3 months ago
Paul Thomas Anderson, Poet Laureate of the San Fernando Valley
Episode 557
Paul Thomas Anderson first made a splash in Hollywood with his film “Boogie Nights,” a portrait of the porn industry that burgeoned in the San Fernan…
4 years, 3 months ago
Life After Prison
Episode 556
As a kid, Jonathan was good at soccer and making friends. But by the age of eighteen, he was a drug dealer facing his first serious conviction. For h…
4 years, 3 months ago
Mass Incarceration, Then and Now
Episode 555
The United States has the largest prison population in the world. But, until the publication of Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow,” in 2010…
4 years, 3 months ago
Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande
Episode 554
Aimee Mann, the celebrated Los Angeles singer and songwriter, recently released an album called “Queens of the Summer Hotel.” The album was inspired …
4 years, 3 months ago
Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music
Episode 553
At The New Yorker Festival, Dave Grohl talked with Kelefa Sanneh about Grohl’s new book, “The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.” Grohl, who was t…
4 years, 3 months ago
Mexican Abortion Activists Mobilize to Aid Texans
Episode 552
Mexico is a deeply Catholic nation where abortion was, for a long time, criminalized in many states; just a few years ago Coahuilla, near the U.S. bo…
4 years, 3 months ago