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The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing
Episode 395
For more than fifteen years, the fiction writer Edwidge Danticat has called Miami’s Little Haiti home. The neighborhood is full of Haitian émigrés li…
5 years, 8 months ago
Governor Gretchen Whitmer on COVID-19, Trump, and the Accusations Against Joe Biden
Episode 394
Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, but it has the third-largest number of COVID-19 deaths. Governor Gretchen Whitmer enacted some of …
5 years, 8 months ago
The Pandemic Is Wreaking Havoc in America’s Prisons and Jails
Episode 393
Three months ago, Kai Wright, the host of WNYC’s the United States of Anxiety, joined David Remnick for a special episode about the effects of mass i…
5 years, 8 months ago
The Economic Fallout of COVID-19; plus Mike Birbiglia, and Chika
Episode 392
As of the end of April, thirty million people have filed for unemployment as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet many believe that this is only…
5 years, 8 months ago
Bonus Episode: Why COVID-19 Is Killing Black People
Episode 391
As black people die from COVID-19 at disproportionate rates, the disease is highlighting health disparities we’ve long known about. Kai Wright, the h…
5 years, 8 months ago
A City at the Peak of Crisis
Episode 390
Experts predicted that Wednesday, April 15th would be a peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, its epicenter. On that day, a crew of New Yor…
5 years, 8 months ago
Rachel Carson Dreams of the Sea
Episode 389
Before she published “Silent Spring,” one of the most influential books of the last century, Rachel Carson was a young aspiring poet and then a gradu…
5 years, 8 months ago
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the Pandemic and the Environment
Episode 388
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert join David Remnick to talk about the twin crises of our time: the coronavirus pandemic and the climate emergency.…
5 years, 8 months ago
War and Peace and Pandemic, and Roger Angell on Baseball Seasons Past
Episode 387
The contributor Yiyun Li is a fiction writer who also teaches creative writing at Princeton University. “The campus is empty,” she tells Joshua Rothm…
5 years, 9 months ago
Amid a Pandemic, Catharsis at Seven O’Clock
Episode 386
David Remnick on the hope and catharsis that he finds in New York City’s daily mass cheer, which celebrates all those who are keeping the city alive …
5 years, 9 months ago