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Atul Gawande on the COVID-19 Resurgence
Episode 521
For a few brief moments this summer, in places where the vaccination rate was high, we could imagine life after COVID-19: restaurants and theatres we…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jack Antonoff on Growing up Jersey
Episode 520
Jack Antonoff has had a busy pandemic. Sought out by Taylor Swift as a producer, he ultimately made two records for her—one of which, “Folklore,” won…
4 years, 7 months ago
John Kerry on the Battle Against Climate Change
Episode 519
With the world overheating, glaciers melting, and landscapes in flames, it’s difficult to think of a harder or more important job than John Kerry’s. …
4 years, 7 months ago
An Iranian Plot Grew in Brooklyn, and the Revelations about Pegasus
Episode 518
The indictment reads like a not-so-great spy novel: the operatives would kidnap the dissident from her home in Brooklyn, deliver her to the waterfron…
4 years, 7 months ago
Eric Adams Talks with David Remnick
Episode 517
The New York City mayoral primary, which culminated in a vote held in June, was full of surprises, including the introduction of ranked-choice voting…
4 years, 7 months ago
Helen Rosner’s Summer Drinks, Plus an Anxious Future in Afghanistan
Episode 516
Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the co-founder of Afghanistan’s only all-girls boarding school, and she is anxiously waiting to see if the Taliban—which brut…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Golden Arches in Black America
Episode 515
Marcia Chatelain, a historian at Georgetown, recently won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.…
4 years, 8 months ago
Gillian Flynn, Akhil Sharma, and Alison Bechdel on Their Most Memorable Jobs
Episode 514
The U.S. economy seems to be showing real signs of life, and lots of people are finally returning to the labor force—eight hundred and fifty thousand…
4 years, 8 months ago
Bon Iver Live at the New Yorker Festival
Episode 513
In the winter of 2007, a songwriter by the name of Justin Vernon returned to the Wisconsin woods, not far from where he grew up. Just a few months la…
4 years, 8 months ago
Janet Mock Finds Her Voice
Episode 512
Janet Mock first heard the word “māhū,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside the male-female binary, when she was twelve. She had just…
4 years, 8 months ago