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Episode 56: Leonard Cohen’s Last Days and Donald Trump’s First Term
Episode 61
David Remnick’s conversation with Leonard Cohen in the last months of the musician’s life, and Amy Davidson and George Packer grapple with the Trump …
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast Extra: Looking Back with Leonard Cohen
Episode 60
In Leonard Cohen’s last interview, he discusses his career, his spiritual influences, and what he is doing to prepare for death.
9 years, 4 months ago
Episode 55: Final Notes on the 2016 Election
Episode 59
The 2016 election gets the Hollywood treatment, and an evangelical minister contemplates the decline of the Christian G.O.P.
9 years, 4 months ago
Podcast Extra: The State of The Union Songbook Live
Episode 58
Michael Friedman performs his State of The Union Songbook live — songs that capture the confusion, hope, and despair of the strangest presidential el…
9 years, 4 months ago
Episode 54: Syria, the World’s Nightmare
Episode 57
This special hour examines the effects of Syria’s civil war, the worst humanitarian crisis of the twenty-first century, from both inside the White Ho…
9 years, 4 months ago
Episode 53: Putting Trump in the White House, Playing Andrew Bird in the O.R.
Episode 56
In this episode, the surgeon Atul Gawande talks with the musician Andrew Bird, and a panel of experts discusses what a Trump Presidency would look li…
9 years, 4 months ago
Episode 52: Mikhail Baryshnikov, T.C. Boyle, and Germany's Kriegskinder
Episode 55
Mikhail Baryshnikov talks about the playing the revolutionary choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, and T.C. Boyle shares a blues musician he discovered on …
9 years, 5 months ago
Episode 51: David Axelrod on the Cubs and the Candidates, and Kenya Barris on “Black-ish”
Episode 54
In this episode, Obama’s former campaign strategist talks Clinton and the Cubs, a mathematician rocks out, and the “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris v…
9 years, 5 months ago
Episode 49: The State of Debate and Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad
Episode 53
In this episode, Colson Whitehead reimagines the Underground Railroad, Jill Lepore assesses the sorry state of political debate,and Sharon Horgan fin…
9 years, 5 months ago
Episode 48: High-Fashion Hijabs, Jill Soloway, and Bluesman Blind Joe Death
Episode 52
In this episode, Jill Soloway, the creator of “Transparent,” goes after the patriarchy; a Muslim designer unveils high-fashion hijabs; and we look at…
9 years, 6 months ago