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An Irish Novelist’s Début Explores Friendship and Adultery in the Digital Age
Episode 106
An Irish writer explores friendship and adultery in the digital age in her début novel.
9 years ago
George Strait, on the Record with Kelefa Sanneh
Episode 105
Country superstar George Strait’s search for the next hit, and Lawrence Wright’s exploration of how Texas is our future.
9 years ago
A Rookie Reporter in Vietnam Captures the War’s Futility
Episode 104
In 1967, a rookie reporter’s eyewitness account of the futility of the Vietnam War shocked readers.
9 years ago
Maggie Haberman: Gang War in the White House
Episode 103
Maggie Haberman and Donald Trump go way back.
9 years ago
The Man Who Would Be King (of Mars)
Episode 102
Dr. Phil Davies, a country doctor in England, says that he owns Mars. What if he’s right?
9 years, 1 month ago
Trumpcare Revisited
Episode 101
An Obamacare veteran keeps fighting the fight—even into the White House. And Jill Lepore explains the century-long battle for universal coverage.
9 years, 1 month ago
Lucinda Williams Talks with Ariel Levy
Episode 100
Lucinda Williams talks with Ariel Levy about God, Flannery O’Connor, and her long and twisting path through the music industry.
9 years, 1 month ago
James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar
Episode 99
Adam Gopnik talks with James Taylor and tries not to go all Chris Farley Show: “Remember when you wrote ‘Fire and Rain’? That was great.”
9 years, 1 month ago
My Night at Mar-a-Lago
Episode 98
Taking the political temperature of Palm Beach at a swinging party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s palace away from home.
9 years, 1 month ago
"Okja" and Other Strange Stories by Jon Ronson
Episode 97
Jon Ronson’s nonfiction has often seemed too strange to be true; in the screenplay for “Okja,” he goes all in for surreal fiction. Plus, Poet Laureat…
9 years, 1 month ago