David Remnick appears in the following:
When Snow Came to Puerto Rico
Friday, December 17, 2021
How did San Juan children have a snowball fight—and why? Plus, a look at how poor students struggle to afford college, even on scholarship.
Is the Gift of Tuition Enough?
Friday, December 17, 2021
Élite universities want to diversify. A college senior explains how, even when schools give full scholarships, they may misunderstand the needs of the students they seek to recruit.
Millennial Writers Reflect on a Generation’s Despair
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
The New Yorker Radio Hour producer Ngofeen Mputubwele reports on a feeling of hopelessness pervading his peers—and on how they live with that feeling.
Paul Thomas Anderson on “Licorice Pizza”
Friday, December 10, 2021
The filmmaker returns to his home terrain, where he set “Boogie Nights” and other movies. Plus, millennial writers reflect on the particular sense of despair in their generation.
Paul Thomas Anderson, Poet Laureate of the San Fernando Valley
Friday, December 10, 2021
In his new film, “Licorice Pizza,” the writer-director returns to his home terrain.
Life After Prison
Tuesday, December 07, 2021
In 2019, Jonathan was released from prison. Our producer shadowed him to learn what emancipation feels like after two decades of being locked up.
Mass Incarceration in America, Then and Now
Friday, December 03, 2021
Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. A dozen years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made?
Mass Incarceration, Then and Now
Friday, December 03, 2021
A dozen years after “The New Jim Crow,” Michelle Alexander considers its impact. Plus, a conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts, who discovered poetry in solitary confinement.
Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
The singer-songwriter discusses and performs songs from her new album, which was inspired in part by the best-selling memoir “Girl, Interrupted.”
Dave Grohl and Aimee Mann Give Thanks
Friday, November 26, 2021
The Foo Fighters’ frontman tells stories from a life of rock and roll. And Mann, a singer-songwriter, discusses her latest album, “Queens of the Summer Hotel.”
Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music
Friday, November 26, 2021
The Foo Fighters frontman, whose new memoir is “The Storyteller,” shares stories from his life before and after Nirvana with the staff writer Kelefa Sanneh.
Mexican Abortion Activists Mobilize to Aid Texans
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Texans seeking abortion access may look south of the border, where Mexico’s Supreme Court just affirmed reproductive choice.
If Roe v. Wade Goes, What Next?
Friday, November 19, 2021
The Supreme Court is examining abortion laws with vast repercussions. Jia Tolentino co-hosts a special episode on the future of reproductive rights in America.
If Roe v. Wade Goes, What Next?
Friday, November 19, 2021
The Supreme Court is examining abortion laws with vast repercussions. Jia Tolentino co-hosts a special episode on the future of reproductive rights in America.
The Essential Workers of the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
If storms sweep into town and the roof is ripped from your house or the basement is submerged in mud, these are the people you’re looking for. But who’s looking out for them?
The Essential Workers of the Climate Crisis
Friday, November 12, 2021
If the roof is ripped from your house or the basement is drowned in mud, these are the people you’re looking for. Who’s looking out for them? Plus, Anna Deavere Smith in her own words.
Anna Deavere Smith Retells Rodney King’s Story in Theatre
Friday, November 12, 2021
The pioneer of verbatim theatre is reviving “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” her almost thirty-year-old play about the consequences of police violence, for the era of Black Lives Matter.
Rachel Held Evans and Her Legacy
Tuesday, November 09, 2021
The late author of Christian best-sellers gave voice to a movement of former evangelicals disaffected by social and political conservatism. Will her message outlive her?
The Life and Legacy of Rachel Held Evans
Friday, November 05, 2021
The late author of Christian best-sellers gave voice to a movement of disaffected evangelicals. Will her message outlive her? Plus, Cal Newport on the four-hour workweek.
Wole Soyinka on His New Satire of Corruption and Fundamentalism
Tuesday, November 02, 2021
In a conversation with Vinson Cunningham, the Nobel laureate, known as a playwright and poet, explains why it took him almost fifty years to write his third novel.
