David Remnick

In this episode, two living legends—the civil-rights leader John Lewis and the singer-songwriter Paul Simon—reflect on how far they’ve come.    

In this episode, Andy Borowitz explains how the D.N.C. is like a Phil Collins music video from the eighties, and Patricia Marx practices archery at home.      

In this episode, the ghostwriter behind “The Art of the Deal” tells all, and Andy Borowitz reviews highlights of the Republican National Convention.

The founder of Gawker on the “karmic justice” of the Hulk Hogan lawsuit; George Saunders on what makes Trump supporters tick; and Parker Posey on a camper from hell.




In this episode, John McPhee reflects on a lifetime of writing; we explore the future of Brexit; and a reporter nearly loses everything after forgetting his iPod passcode.

In this episode, Patrick Radden Keefe on the drug dealers who may help bring El Chapo to justice, and David Remnick talks to Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza. 

On this week’s show, David Remnick talks with a war-crimes expert about how to run a fair tribunal, and Patricia Marx goes foraging in Central Park.

In this episode, Patrick Radden Keefe on the drug dealers who may help bring El Chapo to justice, and David Remnick talks to Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza. 

In this episode, Sarah Koenig talks to David Remnick about the latest season of Serial, Jelani Cobb revisits his old high school, and poet Robin Coste Lewis talks to Hilton Als.

In this episode, David Remnick speaks with Rukmini Callimachi about reporting on ISIS for The New York Times, Aziz Ansari talks "Master of None," and Charlie Kaufman tours the Whitney.

Do you remember the 2015 World Series champions? Or who Deez Nuts is? See how you stack up in our annual news quiz, moderated by David Remnick and Amy Davidson.

We visit a Brooklynite whose antique cars have appeared in films like "Bridge of Spies" and "Pollock," and a woman searches for her father, a once-prominent downtown poet.

In this episode, Sofia Coppola talks about getting Bill Murray to croon for her Christmas special, a New Yorker writer has some fun with Donald Trump, and new drone owners get some tips.

In this episode, jazz musician Robert Glasper discusses the genre's problematic fondness for the past, and a troubled man takes to the water for a series of adventures. 

In this episode, high schoolers in Queens simulate an election, Salt Lake City’s openly gay mayor-elect talks about the Mormon Church, and Lena Dunham tries to get drinks with a friend.

In this episode, hear David Remnick interview Patti Smith, and Jonathan Safran Foer speaks with George Saunders. Both conversations were recorded at the 2015 New Yorker Festival.

In this episode, we meet a father who's turning around a gang feud in Harlem, the owners of Sylvia's give us a tour of the famed restaurant, and two cartoonists chat about talking dogs.

In this week's episode, we meet a couple who adopted twenty children, Elizabeth Kolbert primes us for the upcoming U.N. conference on climate change, and David Remnick goes surfing.