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Armando Iannucci on “The Death of Stalin”
Episode 170
As the fourth season of “Veep” came to an end, director Armando Iannucci turned from chronicling the foibles of cynical western democracy to somethin…
8 years, 2 months ago
In Secret, a North Korean Writer Protests the Regime
Episode 169
Bandi is the pen name of a North Korean writer. He is believed to be a propaganda writer for the government who began to write, secretly, fiction and…
8 years, 2 months ago
Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Dossier
Episode 168
The dossier—a secret report alleging various corrupt dealings between Donald Trump, his campaign, and the government of Russia, made public after the…
8 years, 2 months ago
Alone and on Foot in Antarctica
Episode 167
Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and colle…
8 years, 2 months ago
Jennifer Lawrence on “Red Sparrow” and Times Up
Episode 166
Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for her first Oscar at twenty, and since then she has balanced the biggest of big-budget franchises, like the “Hunger…
8 years, 2 months ago
The New Yorker presents “The Brodies”
Episode 165
Richard Brody hosts an alternative Oscars show — “The Brodies” — and recommends some of his favorite films from the past year, and the writer Chang-…
8 years, 2 months ago
Masha Gessen on Trump and Russia, and a Former Border Agent on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Episode 164
Masha Gessen was born in the Soviet Union and has written extensively about Russian politics. She talks with David Remnick about the similarities bet…
8 years, 3 months ago
Director Ava DuVernay on “Selma” and “A Wrinkle in Time”
Episode 163
No film adaptation of “A Wrinkle In Time,” Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved, and often banned, children’s book, published in 1962, has ever made it to Ame…
8 years, 3 months ago
A Reckoning at Facebook
Episode 162
We now know that Russian operatives exploited Facebook and other social media to sow division and undermine the election of 2016, and special counsel…
8 years, 3 months ago
Ian Frazier Among the Drone Racers
Episode 161
Ian Frazier, who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, recently travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, …
8 years, 3 months ago