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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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
The Insidious Procedural Traps of the Texas Abortion Law
Episode 531
The new Texas law Senate Bill 8 effectively outlaws abortion in Texas, violating constitutional protections on reproductive rights. Yet the Supreme C…
4 years, 11 months ago
Remembering September 11th, and the Future of the Taliban
Episode 530
Twenty years after the events of September 11th, the writer Edwidge Danticat reads from her essay “Flight,” about the way that tragedies are memorial…
4 years, 11 months ago