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Paul Schrader: Movies as Religion
Episode 190
Paul Schrader made an auspicious début as the screenwriter of “Taxi Driver” and the director of “Blue Collar” and “American Gigolo.” But as Hollywood…
7 years, 11 months ago
The Breeders on Sexism, Drugs, and Rock and Roll
Episode 189
This year, the original members of the Breeders—indie-rock royalty—are back together, twenty-five years after “Last Splash,” an album that fans regar…
8 years ago
Diplomacy on the Rocks in Iran and North Korea
Episode 188
Susan B. Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Washington, speaks with Wendy Sherman about the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from t…
8 years ago
Dunya Mikhail on the Lives Stolen by ISIS
Episode 187
Before she was placed on the list of Saddam Hussein’s enemies, the poet Dunya Mikhail worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer. In her new boo…
8 years ago
How to Contain the Threat of Russia
Episode 186
Senator Mark Warner is the vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is trying to explore the possibility of Russian collusion with t…
8 years ago
Glenn Close Doesn’t Play Evil (with One Exception)
Episode 185
Last year, Glenn Close was on Broadway as Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard,” reprising a role she had originally played in 1993. Since 1974, when s…
8 years ago
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…
8 years 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…
8 years 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…
8 years 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…
8 years, 1 month ago