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Life After Lockdown, and the Politics of Blaming China
Episode 400
Since January, Peter Hessler has reported from China under quarantine. Now, as restrictions lift, he tells David Remnick about his return to normal l…
5 years, 11 months ago
Reading “The Plague” During a Plague, and Memorial Day by the Pool
Episode 399
When schools were closed owing to the coronavirus outbreak, the English teacher Petria May did the most natural thing she could think of: she assigne…
6 years ago
Larissa MacFarquhar on a Potentially Deadly Experiment, and Jelani Cobb on the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
Episode 398
Abie Roehrig, a twenty-year-old undergraduate, has put his name on a list of volunteers for a human-challenge trial to test the efficacy of a COVID-1…
6 years ago
Perfume Genius Talks with Jia Tolentino, and Anthony Lane Examines Outbreaks in the Movies
Episode 397
The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino has been following the artist Mike Hadreas, who records as Perfume Genius, since his first album; he has just released…
6 years ago
Jill Lepore on How a Pandemic Ends
Episode 396
Jill Lepore discusses the “stay at home” campaigns that ran on radio stations during the polio years, devised to keep children indoors; she is especi…
6 years ago
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…
6 years 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 …
6 years 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…
6 years 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…
6 years 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…
6 years ago