David Remnick

A hero to the left and a favored villain of the right, the New York congressional representative sits for a long interview with David Remnick.

Adapting a classic novel for the stage, the writer has a few bones to pick with the heroic figure of Atticus Finch. Plus, visiting a food court with writer Ocean Vuong. 

Serving as Poet Laureate, Smith took literature to community centers, senior centers, prisons—anywhere people needed it. 

A Mexican writer travels to the American Southwest, where performances of Wild West history run up against the reality of the border crisis. 

The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic doesn’t just review shows; she’s making an argument about television as a medium that deserves respect on its own terms.  

The Trump Administration says it has made combatting human trafficking a priority, but it has undermined a critical visa program designed to help trafficking’s victims.

The staff writer, an expert on the Middle East, says, “This is how wars start; everybody's playing chicken now.”

The historian and biographer has achieved a singular place in American letters by chronicling the masters of the art of political power.

Sue Halpern, discusses the current antitrust investigations, and why tech giants are now asking the government to regulate them. Plus, Bryan Washington takes us to a Houston ice house.

In a series of works about how the American justice system deals with black citizens, the filmmaker’s latest portrays the teens wrongly convicted of a terrible and notorious assault.

The New Yorker’s television critic explains how a wide range of television shows—including comedies and animations—are bringing the #MeToo movement into their plotlines.

Three prominent scholars discuss how reparations would work, and address a controversy over who would be eligible.