David Remnick

Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

David Remnick appears in the following:

Investigating January 6th

Friday, April 01, 2022

New Yorker writers on what accountability means for a former President. Plus, Sheldon Pearce on three artists who aren’t getting their due at the Grammy Awards.

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Connor Ratliff Talks with Sarah Larson, Plus Chef Bryant Terry

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

For a podcast about being fired from a movie set by Tom Hanks, landing Hanks as an interview guest is redemption. Plus, Helen Rosner talks with the author of “Black Food.”

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Jill Lepore on Parents’ Rights and the Culture War

Friday, March 25, 2022

The historian and staff writer looks at a century-old battle in schools between parents and the state.

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Connor Ratliff’s “Dead Eyes,” and Jill Lepore on the Culture War

Friday, March 25, 2022

The actor turned a crushing defeat in the movie business into a hit podcast. And the historian looks at the long battle between parents and the state.  

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Returning to the Office . . . While Black

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

The Radio Hour producer KalaLea talks frankly with some Black workers about returning to the fraught dynamics of the office after two years away.

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Radio Ukraine

Friday, March 18, 2022

Kraina FM calls itself Ukraine’s “radio station of national resistance.” Nicolas Niarchos describes how its staff is broadcasting through the chaos of war. Plus, the 2022 Brody Awards.

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Radio Ukraine

Friday, March 18, 2022

A visit to Kraina FM, Ukraine’s “radio station of national resistance.” Plus, how some Black workers feel about returning to the office.

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Jane Campion on “The Power of the Dog”

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

One of cinema’s true auteurs, the director discusses her new film, which is set in the West  but not quite a Western. Plus, a staff writer on the extraordinary music of Caetano Veloso.

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Stephen Kotkin: Don’t Blame the West for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Friday, March 11, 2022

Some have argued that NATO expansion in the post-Soviet era has forced Putin’s hand. Kotkin, a historian of the U.S.S.R., disagrees. Russia, he says, is just being Russia.

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Putin’s Descent Into Despotism, and Jane Campion on “The Power of the Dog”

Friday, March 11, 2022

The historian Stephen Kotkin puts Vladimir Putin’s destructive campaign against Ukraine in context, and Campion talks about her Western that isn’t really a Western.

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Pauline Kael on “The Godfather”

Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Fifty years ago, Francis Ford Coppola’s film revived the gangster picture for a darker and more cynical age. The New Yorker’s legendary film critic recognized its importance at once.

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Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa on the Escalation of Violence in Ukraine

Friday, March 04, 2022

New Yorker correspondents on the state of the invasion in Moscow and Kyiv. And a former adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky explains the President’s success in shaping the narrative.

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Ukraine Under Siege

Friday, March 04, 2022

Joshua Yaffa, who is reporting from Kyiv on the invasion, and Masha Gessen, who has reported from Moscow on the response among Russians, talk about the escalation of violence.

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David Remnick on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Thursday, March 03, 2022

David Remnick talks about the latest news from Ukraine as Russia continues its invasion.

Sheryl Lee Ralph on Confronting Hollywood

Tuesday, March 01, 2022

The star of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” talks with Vinson Cunningham about how the industry has changed for Black entertainers and creators since the seventies.

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How Black Creators Are Changing Hollywood

Friday, February 25, 2022

In film and television, Black creators are making critically acclaimed work with big budgets for big audiences. What’s changed in Hollywood to make this possible?

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How Black Creators Are Changing Hollywood

Friday, February 25, 2022

In film and television, Black creators are making critically acclaimed work with big budgets for big audiences. What’s changed in Hollywood to make this possible?

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Peter Dinklage on “Cyrano”

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

The actor stars in a film about the famously unattractive, lovestruck swashbuckler. 

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Nicholas Britell on the Art of the Film Score

Friday, February 18, 2022

The Oscar-nominated composer of the “Don’t Look Up” score talks about “Moonlight” and the tennis comedy “Battle of the Sexes.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Path Forward for the Left

Friday, February 18, 2022

The progressive icon talks frankly about the grind of Washington. “I ate shit when I was a waitress,” she says, “and I eat shit as a member of Congress. It’s called a job.”

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