Rhiannon Corby

The author’s favorite place is a farmers’ market next to the hospital where she was born.

The “Daily Show” correspondent Hasan Minhaj describes learning to be funny—and unlearning it.

A music critic recommends music festivals around the country.  

A food correspondent recommends a baking show like no other, a book on the design of sausage, and a no-fail summer cake recipe.

The author of “Gone Girl” and other books puts on a frozen-yogurt costume and wanders the mall, looking for victims.

Before becoming a writer, Akhil Sharma lied his way into a lucrative job as a banker, spinning stories that played into ethnic stereotypes.

Mistaken for a man, the cartoonist Alison Bechdel was offered a few bucks to move a piece of furniture. She took it.

The novelist Michael Cunningham finds the essential parts of the human experience on display during a quick stroll through Washington Square Park.

They’re complicated and difficult, but don’t call Glenn Close’s characters—even in “Fatal Attraction”—villains.  

Frank Oz created some of the most beloved Muppet characters. He looks back on a few of his iconic roles.

Naomi Fry is The New Yorker’s pop culture correspondent. She shares a few recommendations with David Remnick.

The New Yorker’s pop-music writer Carrie Battan plays three tracks that have grabbed her attention lately.

What we can learn about love by analyzing the work of Motown’s songwriting geniuses.

In a world where every purchase can be reviewed, the writer Chang-rae Lee takes us to a Hawaiian store where such precision is impossible.

Richard Brody offers his take on Best Picture of 2017—the movies you should have seen, and still can.

An inside report on how the effect of Russian meddling in the 2016 election is forcing change at Facebook.

Director Ava DuVernay talks with Jelani Cobb about civil rights, women in Hollywood, and interplanetary travel.

The provocative feminist critic says that the grassroots power of the #MeToo movement is being hijacked by institutions in a power grab to control the lives of employees and students.

The British folk singer Laura Marling listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell growing up, and she went to California to find herself musically.

The film and television critic, book critic, and fashion editor Troy Patterson shares three recent picks with David Remnick.