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Daniel Craig Takes Off the Tux
Episode 541
Daniel Craig made his career as an actor in the theatre and in British indie films. When he showed up in Hollywood, it was usually in smaller roles, …
4 years, 5 months ago
Kara Walker Talks with Thelma Golden
Episode 540
Kara Walker is one of our most influential living artists. Walker won a MacArthur Fellowship (the “genius” grant) before she turned thirty, and becam…
4 years, 5 months ago
An Interview with Merrick Garland, and Susan Orlean on Animals
Episode 539
At The New Yorker Festival, the renowned investigative journalist Jane Mayer asked Attorney General Merrick Garland about the prosecution of January …
4 years, 5 months ago
Broadway’s Unusual Reopening, and Amanda Petrusich Picks Three
Episode 538
Broadway theatres are welcoming audiences to a new season, mounting original works and restaging shows that closed in March, 2020. In this unusual se…
4 years, 5 months ago
Jonathan Franzen Talks with David Remnick About “Crossroads”
Episode 537
Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, “Crossroads,” is set in 1971, and the title is firmly on the nose: the Hildebrand family is at a crossroads itself, j…
4 years, 5 months ago
Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?
Episode 536
Andreas Malm, a climate activist and senior lecturer at Lund University, in Sweden, studies the relationship between climate change and capitalism. W…
4 years, 5 months ago
Jelani Cobb on the Kerner Report, an Unheeded Warning about the Consequences of Racism
Episode 535
In 1967, in the wake of a violent uprising in Detroit, President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to i…
4 years, 5 months ago
Joaquin Castro: “Americans Don’t Know Who Latinos Are”
Episode 534
On Tuesday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a preliminary report on the long-standing underrepresentation of Latinos in the media. W…
4 years, 5 months ago
Wes Anderson and Jeffrey Wright on “The French Dispatch”
Episode 533
“I wanted to do a French movie, and I had this idea of wanting to do a New Yorker movie,” Wes Anderson explains. “Somehow, I also wanted to do one of…
4 years, 6 months ago
Bonus: “The French Dispatch” Reads The New Yorker
Episode 532
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The French Dispatch,” is about a magazine, and it was inspired by Anderson’s long-standing love of The New Yorker. In this …
4 years, 6 months ago