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Three Actors Explain What It Means to be “Presidential”
Episode 217
During the lead-up to the 2016 election, three actors who have played fictional Presidents of the United States discussed what it means to be “Presid…
8 years ago
Seth Meyers Talks with Ariel Levy
Episode 216
Seth Meyers—a veteran of “Saturday Night Live” and the host of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers”—sat down at the 2017 New Yorker Festival to walk A…
8 years ago
David Remnick on Aretha Franklin
Episode 215
Aretha Franklin brought Barack Obama to tears when she performed “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” at the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Ca…
8 years ago
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…
8 years 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…
8 years 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…
8 years 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…
8 years 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,…
8 years 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 …
8 years 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…
8 years ago