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The Alabama Fallout, and Louise Erdrich on the Future
Episode 144
Roy Moore was a classic Trumpian candidate: a political outsider of extreme positions, rejected by the establishment and plagued by accusations of sc…
8 years ago
Don’t Worry, the Robots Can’t Do Your Job—Yet
Episode 143
The business reporter Sheelah Kolhatkar has recently written for The New Yorker about a wave of advances in robotic technology that will have dangero…
8 years, 1 month ago
Susan Orlean on the Trail of Tonya Harding
Episode 142
When the Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan was kneecapped in an attack by friends of her rival Tonya Harding, the scandal riveted the nation; twenty-fou…
8 years, 1 month ago
Barry Blitt’s Rogues’ Gallery of Presidents
Episode 141
Barry Blitt wasn’t into politics—music and hockey were more his things—but as an artist he’s become one of the keenest observers of American politici…
8 years, 1 month ago
Praying for Tangier Island
Episode 140
Residents of Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, live through each hurricane season in fear of a major storm that would decimate their land. With …
8 years, 1 month ago
Bruce Springsteen Talks with David Remnick
Episode 139
In October, 2016, Bruce Springsteen appeared at The New Yorker Festival for an intimate conversation with David Remnick. (The event sold out in six s…
8 years, 1 month ago
Noah Baumbach’s Unhappy Families
Episode 138
In his review of “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” the New Yorker critic Anthony Lane paraphrased no less an author than Leo Tolstoy. “All…
8 years, 1 month ago
Will the Harvey Weinstein Scandal Change America?
Episode 137
The allegations against Harvey Weinstein have opened the floodgates for women in other industries and walks of life to go public with claims of sexua…
8 years, 1 month ago
Love, War, and the Magical Lamb-Brain Sandwiches of Aleppo, Syria
Episode 136
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, 2 months ago
Tina Brown on Vanity Fair, the Eighties, and Harvey Weinstein
Episode 135
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, 2 months ago