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Salman Rushdie’s Fantastical American Quest Novel
Episode 324
The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, talks with Salman Rushdie about “Quichotte,” his apocalyptic quest novel. A few years ago, when th…
6 years, 4 months ago
The New Norms of Affirmative Consent
Episode 323
Mischele Lewis learned that her fiancé was a con man and a convicted pedophile. By lying about who he was, did he violate her consent, and commit ass…
6 years, 4 months ago
Marianne Williamson Would Like to Clarify
Episode 322
Marianne Williamson, the self-help author associated with the New Age movement, has never held political office. But the race for the Presidency, she…
6 years, 4 months ago
Jia Tolentino on the Rise and Fall of the Internet
Episode 321
Jia Tolentino writes for The New Yorker about an extremely wide range of topics, but a central concern is what it has meant to her to have grown up a…
6 years, 4 months ago
Roger Federer Opens Up
Episode 320
The winner of twenty Grand Slam titles and the top-ranked men’s player for three hundred and ten weeks, Roger Federer remains a dominant force in ten…
6 years, 4 months ago
Derren Brown’s Big Secret
Episode 319
Derren Brown wants you to know that he is not a magician. The term he prefers to use is “psychological illusionist,” and his acts mix psychology, mis…
6 years, 4 months ago
Maggie Gyllenhaal on “The Deuce” and #MeToo
Episode 318
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s first starring role was in the 2002 movie “Secretary,” a distriburbing romantic comedy about a troubled woman in a sadomasochisti…
6 years, 4 months ago
Ian Frazier Among the Drone Racers
Episode 317
Ian Frazier, who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where thr…
6 years, 5 months ago
The Rippling Effects of China’s One-Child Policy
Episode 316
Nanfu Wang grew up under China’s one-child policy and never questioned it. “You don’t know that it’s something initiated and implemented by the autho…
6 years, 5 months ago
Toni Morrison Talks with Hilton Als
Episode 315
Toni Morrison read The New York Times with pencil in hand. An editor by trade, Morrison never stopped noting errors in the paper. In 2015, during a c…
6 years, 5 months ago