Jill Du Boff

Retirement has given David Letterman the time to walk his dogs and to try to change the world.

Songwriter Jason Isbell finds joy in playing songs about sobriety for audiences that are definitely not sober.

The Weinbaums have heard all of David’s excuses already.

The boxer Heather Hardy agreed to give up her prize money after she couldn't make weight for a fight. That's what it means to be a champion.

In an intimate conversation, Bruce Springsteen tells David Remnick about his triumphant musical career and his personal struggles.

Why would a gay socialist who works in porn support Trump?    

Two songs by Andrew Bird.

Atul Gawande, a surgeon and self-avowed music nut, talks with Andrew Bird, whose music Gawande plays in the operating room.

Nailah Lymus’s high-fashion hijabs dispel the idea that Islam and modern fashion are incompatible.    

Ariel Levy investigates ayahuasca, an ancient Amazonian hallucinogen that is the drug of choice for the age of kale. 

 Paul Simon speaks with The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Paul Muldoon, about the craft of writing a song.    

David Remnick speaks with Congressman John Lewis about the civil-rights movement and how to survive in Congress.

 The composer Michael Friedman is travelling the country, setting voters’ deepest thoughts about the election to music.


    

Before Sean Penn caught up with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Flores twins helped lead authorities to the drug kingpin. Here's how that bust went down. 

Suggestions from Jack Handey to make your Fourth of July celebration truly the bomb.

An Italo Calvino novel it’s not too late to read, and a great new way to spend even more time online.

Small talk between strangers with dogs can be excruciating. But it also has its rewards.

The composer Michael Friedman puts a college student’s anxiety about the election to music.

The sound of a guy getting beaten with a bat in “Goodfellas” was engineered by an ex-magician with a hideout in Jersey.

Have you ever wondered what that man behind the genial but authoritative voice that cautions subway riders is really thinking?