David Remnick

The pop star’s new memoir explores the joys and the chaos of a life of travelling, which started when she was not far into her teens. She reads as a modern Huck Finn.

A New Yorker critic awards the best films of 2020, according to him. Plus, the cultural historian talks about America’s postwar flowering. 

The director talks about his new film—written by his late father, Jack Fincher—and the eternal struggle of screenwriters and directors. 

A leaked recording captures conservatives planning how to defeat the voting-rights bill H.R. 1. And a tax lawyer explains how the race-blind tax code compounds America’s inequalities.

A South African scholar dismantles the viewpoints of trans-exclusionary radical feminists, and a magician disentangles truth from illusion.

Most states are moving to restrict access to voting. Federal legislation known as H.R. 1 aims to expand it. Jelani Cobb and Jeannie Suk Gersen discuss the war over voting in America.

April 15, 2020, was near the apex of the coronavirus pandemic’s brutal first wave, as it hit New York City hard. This episode documents twenty-four hours at the epicenter.

A retired admiral and a former Marine wrote a thriller about how not to start a world war; and a novelist wrote a best-seller about a subject that most trans authors have tried to avoid.

The historian Simon Schama and the staff writer Doreen St. Félix discuss how the interview with Meghan and Harry plays into culture wars in the U.K. and the U.S.

The U.S. tortured Mohamedou Salahi and kept him at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years. He’s no Al Qaeda mastermind, but, even today, he’s virtually a prisoner. Why won’t we let him go?

The veteran actor explains why playing a man suffering from dementia was no challenge. “When you’re working with a superb script,” he says, “don’t act too much.”

The staff writer on the progress and challenges in defeating the coronavirus, and the actor on playing Fred Hampton, the martyr to the Black Panther cause.

The Maryland lawmaker took shelter during the January 6th insurrection and then led the impeachment that followed, all within weeks of losing his son.