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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 “…
8 years, 1 month 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…
8 years, 1 month 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…
8 years, 1 month 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…
8 years, 1 month 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…
8 years, 1 month 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…
8 years, 1 month ago
Hasan Minhaj Interviewed by Vinson Cunningham
Episode 201
On a high-school speech-and-debate team, Hasan Minhaj learned the value of a joke: “If I made the judges laugh, I automatically saw an increase in th…
8 years, 1 month ago
Molly Ringwald, Judd Apatow, and #MeToo
Episode 200
The John Hughes films that made Molly Ringwald famous—“Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink,” and “The Breakfast Club”—look very different to their star…
8 years, 1 month ago
The Government Took Her Son. Will It Give Him Back?
Episode 199
Border Patrol, which has forcibly separated families in border detention, has put some immigrant children in the care of a separate agency, the Offic…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Comedian Hannah Gadsby Goes Big Time, and Renounces Comedy
Episode 198
Hannah Gadsby is a headlining comedian in Australia, a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and is about to become a very big deal in America wi…
8 years, 2 months ago