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Bon Iver Live at The New Yorker Festival
Episode 344
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…
6 years, 1 month ago
Billy Porter Wears Many Hats
Episode 345
Billy Porter’s résumé is as impressive as it is difficult to categorize. His performance in the musical “Kinky Boots” won him a Tony Award and a Gram…
6 years, 1 month ago
Samantha’s Journey into the Alt-Right, and Back
Episode 342
Since 2016, Andrew Marantz has been reporting on how the extremist right has harnessed the Internet and social media to gain a startling prominence i…
6 years, 1 month ago
Jenny Slate Gets Dressed
Episode 343
Jenny Slate is on tour for her new book “Little Weirds.” It comprises short, strange essays, many of which involve clothing and how we present oursel…
6 years, 1 month ago
Thomas Mallon on Impeachment, and Philip Pullman on “His Dark Materials”
Episode 341
As he opened public impeachment proceedings last week, Representative Adam Schiff invoked Watergate—which, after all, ended well for Democrats. To un…
6 years, 2 months ago
A Progressive Evangelical, and Charlamagne Tha God
Episode 340
Eliza Griswold spoke recently with Doug Pagitt, a pastor from Minneapolis who is a politically progressive evangelical Christian. Pagitt left his chu…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA
Episode 339
Jeff Sessions, then the Attorney General, announced in 2017 the cancellation of the Obama-era policy known as DACA—Deferred Action for Childhood Arri…
6 years, 2 months ago
How the Irish Border Keeps Derailing Brexit
Episode 338
One of the almost unsolvable problems with the U.K.’s exit from the E.U. is that it would necessitate a “hard border” between Northern Ireland, which…
6 years, 2 months ago
Can Mayor Pete Be a Democratic Front-Runner?
Episode 337
Six months ago, David Remnick interviewed a politician named Pete Buttigieg, who was just beginning his campaign for the Democratic nomination for Pr…
6 years, 2 months ago
Horror with a Real-Life Message
Episode 336
The director Sophia Takal is working on a remake of “Black Christmas,” an early slasher flick from Canada, in which sorority girls are picked off by …
6 years, 2 months ago