Jeffrey Masters

Jeffrey Masters appears in the following:

Ina Garten: Cooking Is Hard

Friday, December 16, 2022

The food guru explains why she hated dinnertime growing up, and how she learned to love it. Garten takes questions from our listeners on everything from bay leaves to her scarves.

Is Our Democracy Safe?

Friday, December 02, 2022

Extremism and election denial fared poorly in the midterm elections. Yet the authors of the book “How Democracies Die” say the threat of authoritarianism remains high.

Safia Elhillo on Vulnerability and Anger in “Girls That Never Die”

Friday, November 11, 2022

The Sudanese American poet talks with Dana Goodyear about her new work, which breaks the strictures she earlier set in an effort to present herself modestly.

The Man Who Escaped from Auschwitz to Warn the World

Friday, November 11, 2022

David Remnick talks with Jonathan Freedland about his new book, which chronicles the life of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped from Auschwitz as a teen-ager.

Mike White on the New Season of “The White Lotus” in Sicily

Friday, November 04, 2022

The show’s creator talks with Naomi Fry about his attraction to reality television, and why he writes stories of the privileged.

U2’s Bono Talks with David Remnick—Live

Friday, October 28, 2022

The singer has written a memoir, “Surrender.” It deals with the early loss of his mother, finding religion in music, and navigating the Troubles while in a rock band from Dublin.

The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks on “Topdog/Underdog”

Friday, October 21, 2022

The influential playwright talks with Vinson Cunningham about the revival on Broadway of her groundbreaking play.

In Defense of the Comic Novel: Andrew Sean Greer Talks “Less is Lost”

Monday, October 10, 2022

The author speaks with the staff writer Parul Sehgal about his new novel, a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Less.”

Major Decisions Ahead for the Supreme Court

Friday, October 07, 2022

David Remnick discusses the Court’s new term and the major decisions that lie ahead with the contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen.

At Eighty-five, Tom Stoppard Faces His Family’s Past

Friday, October 07, 2022

The Broadway fixture is out with a new play, reflecting on his family’s history in the Holocaust. He talks with the contributor Andrew Dickson about his latest work and long career.

Why Play Music: A Conversation with Questlove and Maggie Rogers

Friday, September 23, 2022

The legendary hip-hop artist and rising singer-songwriter join The New Yorker’s Kelefa Sanneh live onstage to talk about spirituality and music.

Andy Borowitz on Our Age of Ignorance

Friday, September 16, 2022

The writer and comedian talks with David Remnick about “the intellectual deterioration” of American politics, the subject of his latest book.

Jane Mayer on Ohio’s Lurch to the Right

Saturday, August 06, 2022

How does a swing state go extreme? The reporter took a deep dive into Ohio statehouse politics to diagnose why American democracy itself is now “on life support.”