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Weeding with Parker Posey
Episode 214
Parker Posey has been a vivid presence in American film, especially indie film, for twenty-five years. She got her start in “Dazed and Confused,” and…
7 years, 5 months ago
Lee Child, “Moby-Dick,” and Other Summer Reads
Episode 213
We delve into the escapist joys of a great summer read. David Remnick talks with Lee Child, whose thrillers about Jack Reacher—twenty-three books and…
7 years, 5 months ago
William Finnegan Surfing, and Kristen Roupenian Among the Pilgrims
Episode 212
William Finnegan’s memoir, “Barbarian Days,” from 2015, holds the distinction of being the one book about surfing to win a Pulitzer Prize. On a Sunda…
7 years, 5 months ago
Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family
Episode 211
All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime; in their tough Amsterdam neighborhood, and as children of an…
7 years, 5 months ago
Tommy Orange and the Urban Native Experience
Episode 210
Tommy Orange had never read a book about what it means to be a Native American in a big city. In a conversation with The New Yorker’s fiction editor,…
7 years, 5 months ago
Helsinki Fallout
Episode 209
At the recent summit in Helsinki, Vladimir Putin proposed that, in exchange for letting Robert Mueller interrogate some G.R.U. agents who are linked …
7 years, 5 months ago
Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing
Episode 208
Thomas McGuane, the acclaimed author of “The Sporting Club,” thinks fiction set in the American West could stand to lose some of its ranching clichés…
7 years, 5 months ago
Philip Roth’s American Portraits and American Prophecy
Episode 207
The novelist and short-story writer Philip Roth died in May at the age of eighty-five. In novels like “Portnoy’s Complaint,” “The Human Stain,” and “…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Rezneck Riders
Episode 206
The Navajo Nation covers over twenty-seven thousand square miles in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico; it’s an area roughly the size of West Virginia. Vi…
7 years, 5 months ago
Brazil, Bruce Lee, and Black Lives in the Music of Kamasi Washington, and the Uncertain Future of the Democratic Party
Episode 205
Benjamin Wallace-Wells provides a survey of some key midterm races and considers what they tell us about the direction of the Democratic Party. And D…
7 years, 6 months ago