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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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
Voter Fraud: A Threat to Democracy, or a Myth?
Episode 134
Donald Trump memorably claimed, without a shred of evidence, that millions of votes cast by undocumented immigrants had given Hillary Clinton the pop…
8 years, 4 months ago
Jeffrey Toobin on “The Most Important Supreme Court Case in Decades”
Episode 133
Jeffrey Toobin tells David Remnick that, despite the mounting indictments against members of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign, Trump is almost ce…
8 years, 4 months ago
“Slut: The Play,” an Empowering Story for Young Women
Episode 132
In “Slut: The Play,” Katie Cappiello captures the trauma of sexual assault, based on the stories of teen-agers in her theatre company. (Hilton Als wr…
8 years, 4 months ago