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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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
John Thompson vs. American Justice
Episode 174
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that it was because he had sold drugs to an undercover cop. When he realized they we…
7 years, 11 months ago
The American Bombs Falling on Yemen
Episode 173
Abdulqader Hilal Al-Dabab was the mayor of Sana’a, a politician with a long record of mediating disputes in a notoriously fractious and dangerous cou…
7 years, 11 months ago
Scott Pruitt, the “Originalist” at the E.P.A.
Episode 172
As the Attorney General of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt sued the Environmental Protection Agency fourteen times, claiming that the Obama Administration had…
7 years, 11 months ago