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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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 months ago
Love, War, and the Magical Lamb-Brain Sandwiches of Aleppo, Syria
Episode 204
When Adam Davidson was a reporter in Baghdad during the Iraq War, he started dating a fellow-reporter, Jen Banbury, of Salon. On a holiday break, the…
7 years, 8 months ago
Tina Brown on Vanity Fair, the Eighties, and Harvey Weinstein
Episode 203
Tina Brown is a legend in New York publishing. She was barely thirty years old when she was recruited from London to take over a foundering Vanity Fa…
7 years, 8 months ago
Naomi Klein Interviewed by Jia Tolentino
Episode 202
The author of “No Logo” and “The Shock Doctrine,” Naomi Klein has become what Noam Chomsky was to an earlier generation of leftists. Her theories tie…
7 years, 8 months ago