David Remnick

Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

David Remnick appears in the following:

The Lost Emperor

Tuesday, January 09, 2018

In “The Lost Emperor,” David Remnick writes about how the West Wing has come to resemble the darkest realms of Twitter.

Jerry Seinfeld Gets Technical

Friday, January 05, 2018

Jerry Seinfeld talks with David Remnick about his childhood and the craft of comedy.

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Jerry Seinfeld, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Jon Hamm

Friday, January 05, 2018

Jerry Seinfeld runs down the anatomy of a joke, Tracee Ellis Ross pushes back on “lady chores,” and Jon Hamm mocks Don Draper, gently.

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Trolling the Press Corps

Tuesday, January 02, 2018

A far-right blogger trolls the White House press corps.   

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Jon Stewart’s Children

Friday, December 29, 2017

Trevor Noah, Bassem Youssef, the founders of Reductress, and Andy Borowitz talk satire; and two cartoonists attempt to escape from an escape room.

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Jon Stewart’s Children, and Trolling the Press Corps

Friday, December 29, 2017

Trevor Noah, Bassem Youssef, the founders of Reductress, and Andy Borowitz talk satire; a far-right blogger in the White House looks for a fight.

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Leonard Cohen: A Final Interview

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Leonard Cohen talks about finding peace at the end of his life. And, Christmas greetings from E.B. White.    

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Bonus: Holiday Greetings from Ian Frazier

Sunday, December 24, 2017

Ian Frazier, keeper of a long tradition at The New Yorker, with this year's Christmas poem.

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Children’s Letters to Satan, and a Changing of the Guard at the New York Times

Friday, December 22, 2017

David Remnick talks with A. G. Sulzberger, the incoming publisher of the New York Times. And Kathleen Turner performs as Satan, in an unusual Christmas story.

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Children's Letters to Satan, and Other Christmas Stories

Friday, December 22, 2017

Three unusual Christmas stories from The New Yorker; and The New York Times’s new publisher talks about the future of print and digital news.

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Nicolás Maduro on the Brink of Dictatorship

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Jon Lee Anderson recently interviewed the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, who is consolidating his power as his country collapses into chaos.    

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The Alabama Fallout, and Louise Erdrich on the Future

Friday, December 15, 2017

What does Roy Moore’s defeat in his Alabama Senate race say about sexual misconduct in politics?; and Louise Erdrich imagines a dark future in Minnesota.

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Nicolás Maduro Takes Control, and Louise Erdrich on the Future

Friday, December 15, 2017

Jon Lee Anderson reports from Venezuela, where democracy is on the ropes; and Louise Erdrich imagines a dark future in Minnesota.    

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Don’t Worry, the Robots Can’t Do Your Job—Yet

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

A business reporter looks at a surge of advances in robotic technology and sees a looming wave of unemployment that our country is not preparing for.

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Susan Orlean on the Trail of Tonya Harding

Friday, December 08, 2017

Susan Orlean revisits her time on the time on the trail of Tonya Harding. Plus, the F.C.C. is on the verge of ending the Internet as we know it.

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Revisiting Tonya Harding, and the Robots Angling for Your Job

Friday, December 08, 2017

Sheelah Kolhatkar looks at a coming wave of automation that will cost millions their jobs, and Susan Orlean revisits her time on the trail of the disgraced Olympian Tonya Harding.

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Barry Blitt’s Rogues’ Gallery of Presidents

Tuesday, December 05, 2017

The artist Barry Blitt explains why he never tires of drawing Donald Trump, and the indie film producer Christine Vachon gives Hilton Als a tip on dealing with the suits.    

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Praying for Tangier Island

Friday, December 01, 2017

Tangier Island is washing out to sea, and its residents may be among the first American refugees of climate change. But that’s not how they see the loss of their island.

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Praying for Tangier Island, and Barry Blitt’s Presidents

Friday, December 01, 2017

We visit Tangier Island, where residents are watching their land wash out to sea. And the artist Barry Blitt wonders if Donald Trump’s face is his destiny.    

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Bruce Springsteen Talks with David Remnick

Friday, November 24, 2017

Bruce Springsteen tells David Remnick why he waited decades to put out a memoir.

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