Episode 15: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Maron, and the Broads of 'Broad City'
This week, stars of the stage, screen, and earbuds. Marc Maron tells Kelefa Sanneh why talking into a mic saved his life. The magazine’s TV critic, Emily Nussbaum, speaks with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana...
View ArticleEmily Nussbaum Chats with the Women of “Broad City”
Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer will soon return to Comedy Central for the third season of their hit series “Broad City.” In a conversation with the TV critic Emily Nussbaum at the 2015 New Yorker...
View ArticleMarc Maron Just Needs to Talk
The host of “WTF with Marc Maron” remembers when he first realized he had a future in broadcasting: high on coffee and M&M’s, he started ranting about feral cats on Air America, and it killed. More...
View ArticleLin-Manuel Miranda on Dirty Politics and the Founding Fathers
As the star and creative mind behind “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda made the Founding Fathers the hottest thing on Broadway. In a conversation with The New Yorker’s Rebecca Mead, Miranda explains how...
View ArticleLaura Poitras: ‘We Create the Political Landscape in Which We Live’
Laura Poitras shared a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting based on Edward Snowden’s leaks, and an Oscar for her film “Citizenfour.” Her latest project is neither documentary nor journalism but a museum...
View ArticleAutomated Call-Response Center for the Weinbaum Residence
Calling mom just got a lot harder for David: “If you are family, please press one. If you are a friend, press two. If you fall somewhere on the associate-to-acquaintance continuum, press three.” Becky...
View ArticleEmma Allen Picks Three Funny Things
As the editor of the Daily Shouts blog, The New Yorker’s Emma Allen brings humor pieces to the Web. Here she shares three recommendations for making life funnier: a board game, a comedian, and a...
View ArticleDavid Bowie’s Last Band
David Bowie never stopped pushing himself creatively, and, in his last couple of years, he enlisted a group of unknown jazz musicians to shape the sound of what would be his final album, “Blackstar.”...
View ArticleBrenda Shaughnessy’s Time Machine
With her new book of poetry, “So Much Synth,” the poet Brenda Shaughnessy is going back in time. The collection, which comes out this spring, tells the story of her own coming of age, in the eighties,...
View ArticleEpisode 16: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda...
The Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour”) talks to David Remnick about her first solo museum exhibition, “Astro Noise,” which channels her investigations of government surveillance...
View ArticleEpisode 26: Syrian War Crimes, Country Music, and a Central Park Salad
On this week’s show, Ben Taub shares his reporting on a group that’s gathering top-secret documents tying Bashar al-Assad’s regime to mass torture and killings, and David Remnick talks with a...
View ArticleHow to Prosecute a War Criminal
Kevin Jon Heller, a professor of criminal law at the University of London, served on the defense team for Radovan Karadžić and worked for Human Rights Watch during the trial of Saddam Hussein. He joins...
View ArticleThe Case Against Assad
At an undisclosed location in Western Europe, a group called Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) is gathering evidence of war crimes perpetrated by the Syrian government....
View ArticleKathryn Schulz Picks Three
When asked why he liked country music, Charlie Parker is said to have replied, “The stories, man.” Kathryn Schulz, a New Yorker staff writer, agrees. In anticipation of a new album from Miranda...
View ArticleAudio Tour: The World of Todd Niesle and His S***
Todd Niesle is away skiing with his brother, so turn on your audio guide and take this tour of his apartment. It’s narrated by Debby, “a specialist in Todd Niesle,” who seems to have something of an...
View ArticleForaging Greens in Central Park
Removing plants from Central Park is illegal. But when Manhattan salad bars are charging up to $8.99 a pound, what’s a thrifty New Yorker to do? After receiving a lesson in edible plants, Patricia Marx...
View ArticleA Brutally Honest Wedding Invitation
“If you attend, you will be seated with a grad-school roommate—it is unclear whose—and someone you met at the bride’s sixteenth-birthday party. She threw up at that, and she’ll throw up at this.” Maybe...
View ArticleBehind the Walls of Prisons Where the Mentally Ill are Tortured
Eyal Press, a contributor to The New Yorker, investigated Florida prisons, including the Dade Correctional Institution, for his recent article, “Madness.” He reveals how mentally ill patients have...
View ArticleShould NYC Ban Plastic Bags or Charge for Them?
The world uses and throws away more than 1 trillion bags every year, according to New Yorker staff writer Ian Frazier in his recent article, “The Bag Bill.” Should New York ban plastic bags, or make...
View ArticleTransatlantic Hugs, Handshake Texts and the Future of Tactile Research
New advances in tactile research, or the science of touch, have changed our understanding of human consciousness, according to Adam Gopnik, a staff writer at The New Yorker, in his recent article “Feel...
View ArticleMadman or Brilliant Historian? Unraveling the True Story of Joe Gould
New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore embarked on a quest to uncover the true story of Joe Gould, an eccentric modernist writer and historian who suffered from mental illness but...
View ArticleA Journalist Disrupts Start-Up Culture, Artist Roz Chast on her Iconic 'New...
Dan Lyons takes us inside HubSpot, and the wild world of youth-centric, content driven start-up culture. New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast talks about her life, art and “Cartoon Memoirs,” an exhibit of...
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Capturing a New Yorker's Life in Cartoons
The New Yorker's Roz Chast has been drawing iconic cartoons that perfectly capture daily life, from the joyful to the absurd, for over 40 years. A new exhibit of her work, “Cartoon Memoirs,” is...
View ArticleLeonard Lopate Weekend: Moving Art, Roz Chast, Chimp Rights
Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art, and Stefanii Atkins, Head Registrar at MoMA, along with Aileen Chuk, Head Registrar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art give us a...
View ArticleWhat Feral Hogs Reveal About Local Politics, and Other Investigations by Ian...
What does the feral hog population in a region reveal about local politics? New Yorker staff writer Ian Frazier reports on this and other stories in his latest book Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting...
View ArticleLeonard Lopate Weekend: CIA Waterboarding, Ian Frazier, Vacationing in North...
Rebecca Gordon, a contributor to The Nation and TomDispatch, author and lecturer in the Philosophy department at the University of San Francisco, discusses her piece in The Nation, done in partnership...
View ArticleEpisode 37: El Chapo v. Flores Brothers, and Jack Handey’s Santa Fe
If Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, is extradited to the United States, he might face two formidable witnesses: identical twin brothers, former drug traffickers on a major...
View ArticleWriter Nathan Englander on CrossFit
The acclaimed fiction writer Nathan Englander has a tendency to work around the clock, and he spends the little free time he has at a CrossFit studio. For Englander, the notoriously grueling training...
View ArticleAlicia Garza Says No to Hillary
After a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, Alicia Garza said it sent a message that “our lives don’t matter.” Garza and two others co-founded Black Lives...
View ArticleThe Star Witnesses Against El Chapo
The cartel boss Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who twice escaped Mexican prisons, will be extradited to the U.S. If El Chapo, as he is known, goes to trial in Chicago, the government has star witnesses lined up...
View ArticleNobody Writes a Caption Like Larry Wood
Larry Wood is a grand master of a very particular sport - The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. He’s won seven times, more than any other contestant. He explains his system to Susan Morrison, an...
View Article"Tales of Old Santa Fe," by Jack Handey
Santa Fe’s cowboy past and its New Age present collide in Jack Handey’s short sketches: an old-time landscape painter is challenged to a two-man show by a cocky upstart; a “fancy dude” buys a “double...
View ArticleA Breakup Ceremony
What if we had rituals for the end of relationships as well as the beginnings? “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the dramatic breakup of two people we’ve never met,” Shea Strauss...
View ArticleIs the Brexit Vote Good for the E.U.?
The United Kingdom holds one of the world’s financial capitals; its decision to leave the European Union caused an earthquake in the markets. Even as markets stabilize, the political and economic...
View ArticleEpisode 38: The Wisdom of John McPhee, and the Agony of an iPod Lockout
The longtime New Yorker writer John McPhee is an influential teacher of writing, with bookshelves full of titles written by his former students. One of those students, David Remnick, talks with McPhee...
View ArticleLiving Alone in Twenty-Two Rooms
Bob Bozic, a Manhattan bartender, has been fighting for a decade to reclaim a house from the Serbian government. A twenty-two-room mansion on the nicest street in Belgrade, it was built by a father he...
View ArticlePolling & Democracy: An Uneasy Relationship
Back in December, with our election season partners, FiveThirtyEight, we issued a Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Election Polls Edition. It was directed towards primary election coverage, but some...
View ArticleAn Editor Reflects on a Lifetime in Publishing
Robert Gottlieb has served as the the editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, the president, publisher and editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf, and the editor of The New Yorker. In his book, Avid Reader:...
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Alex Ross's Current Obsessions
Join Q2 Music this winter for weekly musical obsessions from noted New Yorker music critic Alex Ross. Each Tuesday at 1 pm, from November through January, we'll take in one of Ross's discoveries in its...
View ArticleFrom Avid Reader to Influential Editor
This is a rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired on October 3rd, 2016.Robert Gottlieb has served as the the editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, the president, publisher and...
View ArticleBrenda Shaughnessy’s Time Machine
With her latest book of poetry, “So Much Synth,” the poet Brenda Shaughnessy is going back in time. The collection, which came out this spring, tells the story of her own coming of age, in the...
View ArticleEmma Allen Picks Three Funny Things
As the editor of the Daily Shouts blog, The New Yorker’s Emma Allen brings humor pieces to the Web. Here she shares three recommendations for making life funnier: a board game, a comedian, and a...
View ArticleLaura Poitras: ‘We Create the Political Landscape in Which We Live’
Laura Poitras shared a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting based on Edward Snowden’s leaks, and an Oscar for her film “Citizenfour.” Her recent project, “Astro Noise,” was neither documentary nor...
View ArticleAutomated Call-Response Center for the Weinbaum Residence
Calling mom just got a lot harder for David: “If you are family, please press one. If you are a friend, press two. If you fall somewhere on the associate-to-acquaintance continuum, press three.” Becky...
View ArticleEpisode 62: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda...
The Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour”) talks to David Remnick about her first solo museum exhibition, “Astro Noise,” which channels her investigations of government surveillance...
View ArticleDavid Bowie’s Last Band
David Bowie never stopped pushing himself creatively, and, in his last couple of years, he enlisted a group of unknown jazz musicians to shape the sound of what would be his final album, “Blackstar.”...
View ArticleIt's a 'Doggy-dog World,' and More of the Best New Yorker Spelling Errors
Author and former New Yorker editor Daniel Menaker and cartoonist Roz Chast discuss their new book, The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense, a fun collection of...
View ArticleWhat Feral Hogs Reveal About Local Politics, and Other Investigations by Ian...
What does the feral hog population in a region reveal about local politics? New Yorker staff writer Ian Frazier reports on this and other stories in his latest book Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting...
View Article'New Yorker' Covers More Reflective of The Times
The New Yorker's cover art has long reflected a cosmopolitan sensibility — but recently, the images have become much more topical, depicting issues the nation is facing like politics, immigration and...
View ArticleUnveiling President Trump's Tabloid Ties
New Yorker staff writer, author and senior legal analyst at CNN Jeffrey Toobin joins us discuss his latest piece, “Feeding the Beast” (Online: “The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump”). He profiles...
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