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Robert Caro on the Fall of New York
Episode 184
In a career spanning more than forty years, the biographer Robert Caro has written about only two subjects. But they’re very big subjects: Robert Mo…
7 years, 8 months ago
Apocalypse Prepping, on a Budget
Episode 183
Inspired by “Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich,” by The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos, Patricia Marx gets herself ready for the apocalypse. The only problem…
7 years, 8 months ago
ICE Comes to a Small Town in Tennessee
Episode 182
This week, a reporter looks at a rural town where the largest immigration raid in a decade has ripped apart a community; Ronan Farrow talks about his…
7 years, 8 months ago
Andrew Sean Greer’s “It’s a Summer Day”
Episode 181
Last week, Andrew Andrew Sean Greer's novel "Less" won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. "Less" about a novelist in mid-life named Arthur Less, an…
7 years, 8 months ago
James Comey Makes His Case to America
Episode 180
In a long career in law enforcement, the former F.B.I. Director James Comey aimed to be above politics, but in the 2016 election he stepped directly …
7 years, 8 months ago
A Trans Woman Finds Her True Face Through Surgery
Episode 179
The staff writer Rebecca Mead recently observed the seven-hour surgery of woman she calls Abby. (To protect her privacy, Abby’s real name was not us…
7 years, 8 months ago
Pope Francis the Disruptor
Episode 178
As a conservative columnist at the New York Times, Ross Douthat fills the post once held by no less a figure than William Kristol. A devout Catholic…
7 years, 9 months ago
Frank Oz on Miss Piggy’s Secret Backstory and Jim Henson’s Legacy
Episode 177
Frank Oz was a teenager when he started working with Jim Henson, the puppeteer and filmmaker behind the Muppets. Oz went on to create characters like…
7 years, 9 months ago
Emma González at Home, and a Crown Prince Abroad
Episode 176
Emma González is a survivor of the Parkland attack, and a leader of the #NeverAgain movement. She talks with David Remnick about the ways her life ha…
7 years, 9 months ago
How Not to Write a Caption
Episode 175
Every week, a New Yorker cartoon is posted online and printed in the magazine without a caption, and thousands of people write in with their suggesti…
7 years, 9 months ago