David Remnick appears in the following:
Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The sister of a feared, internationally known criminal describes what it was like to turn him in.
Life Under Quarantine
Friday, March 13, 2020
Peter Hessler, a staff writer based in China, describes the long weeks indoors. And Lawrence Wright talks about the ripple effects of a pandemic.
Life Under Quarantine
Friday, March 13, 2020
Peter Hessler, a staff writer based in China, describes the long weeks indoors. And Lawrence Wright talks about the ripple effects of a pandemic.
William Gibson on the End of the Future, and a Democratic Party Divided
Friday, March 06, 2020
The science-fiction writer imagines a climate-change apocalypse. Plus: after Super Tuesday, the Democratic field is narrowed, but the Party’s fundamental tension is unresolved.
President Mike?
Monday, March 02, 2020
Eleanor Randolph, a biographer of Michael Bloomberg, and Andrea Bernstein, a WNYC reporter who covered the former mayor’s terms in Gracie Mansion, analyze his approach to governing.
Rose McGowan on Harvey Weinstein’s Guilty Verdict, and Neuroscience on the Campaign Trail
Friday, February 28, 2020
Hours after a Manhattan jury convicted the movie producer of sex crimes, Ronan Farrow talked with the actress, one of Weinstein’s accusers. Plus, Sue Halpern visits Spark Neuro.
Rose McGowan and Ronan Farrow on the Weinstein Verdict, and a Look at Candidate Bloomberg
Friday, February 28, 2020
An accuser of Harvey Weinstein responds to his conviction. And David Remnick assesses the political career of Michael Bloomberg with two people who watched it up close.
Stephen Miller, the Immigration Extremist in the White House
Friday, February 21, 2020
How one adviser almost single-handedly engineered the Trump Administration’s nativist policies. Plus: a conversation with Pam Grier, the first action heroine of blaxploitation cinema.
Gish Jen’s “The Resisters”
Friday, February 14, 2020
The author’s fifth novel is about baseball, class warfare, and a sentient Internet.
Bernie Sanders Ascends, and a High School Simulates the Election
Friday, February 14, 2020
Can a leftist consolidate the Party faithful and rally voters in the general election? Plus, a teen-age Trump tries to win over his high school.
The Ascendance of Bernie Sanders, and the Novelist Gish Jen
Friday, February 14, 2020
Centrist Democrats have their hair on fire over Sanders as the front-runner. Is he the Party’s future, or an electoral disaster? Plus, Gish Jen on baseball and artificial intelligence.
Louis C.K.’s Return to the Stage
Friday, February 07, 2020
The New Yorker’s Hilton Als reviews the comic’s return after a sexual-misconduct scandal. Plus, a Patriotic Millionaire who wants to raise his own taxes.
Louis C.K.’s Return to the Stage
Friday, February 07, 2020
Hilton Als talks about what a performer who committed misconduct owes to his audience. And will any of the Democratic front-runners attract enough black voters to win the Presidency?
N. K. Jemisin on H. P. Lovecraft
Friday, January 31, 2020
A celebrated science-fiction author grapples with her genre’s deep legacy of racism.
A Tumultuous Week in Impeachment, and Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril
Friday, January 31, 2020
Susan Glasser assesses the impact of John Bolton’s manuscript on the impeachment case. And a historian looks to the nineteen-thirties—the last time democracy seemed so fraught.
What Would a World Without Prisons Be Like?
Friday, January 24, 2020
Kai Wright sits down with two advocates of prison abolition to discuss the why and the how of ‘decarceration.’
The Alternative Oscars, 2020 Edition
Friday, January 24, 2020
A New Yorker critic names the best films of 2019; and two prison abolitionists explain a vision of the world of ‘decarceration,’ where only a tiny number of people are locked up.
Mass Incarceration, Then and Now
Friday, January 17, 2020
Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. Ten years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made?
Mass Incarceration, Then and Now
Friday, January 17, 2020
Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. Ten years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made?
The Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran
Friday, January 10, 2020
Eric Lach is in Iowa ahead of the next debate, where Democratic candidates are honing their responses to the situation in Iran. Plus, an insider’s disenchantment with Silicon Valley.
