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The Perils Prison Reform, and the Vision of a Visually Impaired Artist
Episode 415
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United States, on b…
5 years, 5 months ago
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism
Episode 414
My generation was taught that the civil-rights movement ended in the sixties, and that the Civil Rights Act put things as they should be,” Chance the…
5 years, 6 months ago
Michaela Coel on Making “I May Destroy You”
Episode 413
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she has been assau…
5 years, 6 months ago
The State of the Biden Campaign
Episode 412
Joe Biden all but locked up the Democratic Presidential nomination just as the coronavirius crisis began triggering national lockdowns. Now he faces …
5 years, 6 months ago
Laura Marling, a Briton in Los Angeles
Episode 411
The thirty-year-old British singer/songwriter Laura Marling has produced seven albums of dense but delicate folk music, starting when she was only ei…
5 years, 6 months ago
Hasan Minhaj and Kenan Thompson
Episode 410
The 2019 New Yorker Festival was the twentieth edition of the annual event, and it was particularly star-studded. This program features interviews wi…
5 years, 6 months ago
Keeping Released Prisoners Safe and Sane
Episode 409
Starting this spring, many states began releasing some inmates from prisons and jails to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But a huge number of i…
5 years, 6 months ago
Hilton Als’s Homecoming and the March for Queer Liberation
Episode 408
In the summer of 1967, a young black boy in Brooklyn was shot in the back by a police officer. The writer Hilton Als recalls the two days of “discord…
5 years, 6 months ago
Live at Home Part II: Phoebe Bridgers
Episode 407
Phoebe Bridgers’s tour dates were cancelled—she was booked at Madison Square Garden, among other venues—so she performs songs from her recent album, …
5 years, 6 months ago
Live at Home Part I: John Legend
Episode 406
Like everyone in the United States, John Legend has spent much of the past three months in lockdown. He has been recording new music (via Zoom), perf…
5 years, 6 months ago