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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…
7 years 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…
7 years 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…
7 years 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…
7 years ago
Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo, Part 2
Episode 314
In January, The New Yorker’s Ben Taub travelled to Mauritania to meet with Mohamedou Salahi. An electrical engineer who had lived in Germany, Salahi …
7 years ago
Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo
Episode 313
When Mohamedou Salahi arrived at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, in August of 2002, he was hopeful. He knew why he had been detained: he had cros…
7 years ago
Summer, By The Book
Episode 312
The cultural critic Doreen St. Félix goes to Madame Tussauds with Justin Kuritzkes, the début author of the novel “Famous People,” to talk about the …
7 years ago
Tana French on “The Witch Elm”
Episode 311
Tana French was an actor in her thirties when she sat down to write about a mystery that took the lives of two children, which became the global bloc…
7 years, 1 month ago
Jelani Cobb Talks with the Artist Fahamu Pecou
Episode 310
Fahamu Pecou has shown work in museums all over the country and appeared on television shows like “Empire” and “black-ish.” The men the artist depict…
7 years, 1 month ago
Watching the Moon Landing
Episode 309
Some people have always believed that the moon landing was a government hoax, and, in the age of the Internet, that conspiracy theory continues to th…
7 years, 1 month ago