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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Language: en-us News Arts
Last Checked: 2025-10-09 08:08:08
Showing episodes 101 to 200 of 1023 total

“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The film “No Other Land” has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. I...

Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.

Fri, 7 Feb

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Many of the most draconian measures implemented in the first couple weeks of the new Trump Administr...

Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many of the most draconian measures implemented in the first couple weeks of the new Trump Administr...

The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker

Tue, 4 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

David Remnick talks with The New Yorker’s literary guiding lights: the fiction editor Deborah Trei...

The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Remnick talks with The New Yorker’s literary guiding lights: the fiction editor Deborah Trei...

Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Fri, 31 Jan

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, Bill Gates was the best known of a new breed: the tech mogul—...

Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, Bill Gates was the best known of a new breed: the tech mogul—...

Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:05:54 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

The staff writer Dana Goodyear has reported on California extensively: the entertainment industry; a...

Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The staff writer Dana Goodyear has reported on California extensively: the entertainment industry; a...

How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago

Fri, 24 Jan

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

“Saturday Night Live” turns fifty this year. Profiling its executive producer, Lorne Michaels, t...

How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Saturday Night Live” turns fifty this year. Profiling its executive producer, Lorne Michaels, t...

The Political Scene: Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Washington Roundtable—with the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos—di...

Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview

Fri, 17 Jan

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

As President Biden took office in 2021, he aimed to rebuild alliances that Donald Trump had threaten...

Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As President Biden took office in 2021, he aimed to rebuild alliances that Donald Trump had threaten...

One Environmental Journalist Thinks that the U.S. Needs More Mining

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Donald Trump loves mining, and he would like to expand that effort in the U.S. At least one environm...

One Environmental Journalist Thinks that the U.S. Needs More Mining

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump loves mining, and he would like to expand that effort in the U.S. At least one environm...

Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Representative Ro Khanna of California is in the Democrats’ Congressional Progressive Caucus. And ...

Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme

Tue, 7 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Sara Bareilles broke out as a pop-music star in the late two-thousands. But she’s gone on to have ...

Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sara Bareilles broke out as a pop-music star in the late two-thousands. But she’s gone on to have ...

Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

Fri, 3 Jan

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Rachel Aviv reports on the terrible conundrum of Alice Munro for The New Yorker. Munro was a winner ...

Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Aviv reports on the terrible conundrum of Alice Munro for The New Yorker. Munro was a winner ...

Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Introducing Julianne Moore at the New Yorker Festival, in October, the staff writer Michael Schulman...

Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing Julianne Moore at the New Yorker Festival, in October, the staff writer Michael Schulman...

The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten

Fri, 27 Dec

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. A...

The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. A...

Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American ...

Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American ...

Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”

Fri, 20 Dec

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Willem Dafoe has one of the most distinctive faces and most distinctive voices in movies, deployed t...

Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Willem Dafoe has one of the most distinctive faces and most distinctive voices in movies, deployed t...

From the Archive: James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar

Wed, 18 Dec

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

James Taylor’s songs are so familiar that they seem to have always existed. Onstage at the New Yor...

From the Archive: James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

James Taylor’s songs are so familiar that they seem to have always existed. Onstage at the New Yor...

From the Archive: St. Vincent’s Seduction

Wed, 18 Dec

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent, launched her career as a guitar virtuoso—a real shredder—in i...

From the Archive: St. Vincent’s Seduction

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent, launched her career as a guitar virtuoso—a real shredder—in i...

From the Archive: Elvis Costello Talks with David Remnick

Wed, 18 Dec

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Elvis Costello’s thirty-first studio album, “Hey Clockface,” will be released this month. Reco...

From the Archive: Elvis Costello Talks with David Remnick

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elvis Costello’s thirty-first studio album, “Hey Clockface,” will be released this month. Reco...

From Critics at Large: After “Wicked,” What Do We Want from the Musical?

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

The American musical is in a state of flux. Today’s Broadway offerings are mostly jukebox musicals...

From Critics at Large: After “Wicked,” What Do We Want from the Musical?

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The American musical is in a state of flux. Today’s Broadway offerings are mostly jukebox musicals...

Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism

Fri, 13 Dec

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Power dynamics in the Middle East shifted dramatically this year. In Lebanon, Israel dealt a severe ...

Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Power dynamics in the Middle East shifted dramatically this year. In Lebanon, Israel dealt a severe ...

Audra McDonald on Stephen Sondheim, “Gypsy,” and Being Black on Broadway

Mon, 9 Dec

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

“Gypsy,” a work by Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne, and Arthur Laurents, is often called the greate...

Audra McDonald on Stephen Sondheim, “Gypsy,” and Being Black on Broadway

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Gypsy,” a work by Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne, and Arthur Laurents, is often called the greate...

Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans

Fri, 6 Dec

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Immigration has been the cornerstone of Donald Trump’s political career, and in his second success...

Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Immigration has been the cornerstone of Donald Trump’s political career, and in his second success...

Pick 3: Justin Chang’s Downer Movies for the Holiday Season

Tue, 3 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

If “Wicked, Part I” and “Gladiator II” are not getting you into the theatre this weekend, Ju...

Pick 3: Justin Chang’s Downer Movies for the Holiday Season

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If “Wicked, Part I” and “Gladiator II” are not getting you into the theatre this weekend, Ju...

A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving; Plus, Ayelet Waldman on Quilting to Stay Sane

Fri, 29 Nov

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise...

A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving; Plus, Ayelet Waldman on Quilting to Stay Sane

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise...

Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah McBride just became the first transgender person elected to the United States Congress. A Demo...

Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the founding of the nation, just 116 people have served as Supreme Court Justices; the 116th i...

Danielle Deadwyler on August Wilson and Denzel Washington

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Danielle Deadwyler, who first grabbed the spotlight for her performance as Emmett Till’s mother in...

Danielle Deadwyler on August Wilson and Denzel Washington

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Danielle Deadwyler, who first grabbed the spotlight for her performance as Emmett Till’s mother in...

The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

American voters have elected a President with broadly, overtly authoritarian aims. It’s hardly the...

Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset

Sam Gold has directed five Shakespeare tragedies, but his latest, “Romeo + Juliet,” is something...

Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Gold has directed five Shakespeare tragedies, but his latest, “Romeo + Juliet,” is something...

Donald Trump’s Reëlection, and America’s Future

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the end, Donald Trump’s rhetoric of another stolen election, and his opponents’ warnings that...

Rachel Maddow on the Fascist Threat in America, Then and Now

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It made news when the retired general John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, s...

Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In recent weeks and months, dozens of prominent security and military officials and Republican polit...

How Alpha Kappa Alpha Shaped Kamala Harris; Plus, Bill T. Jones

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One aspect of the Vice-President’s background that’s relatively overlooked, and yet critical to ...

Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Kamala Harris and the Democrats

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In these final days of the Presidential campaign, Vice-President Kamala Harris has been getting in f...

The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If Vice-President Kamala Harris wins in November, it will likely be on the strength of the pro-choic...

With “The Warriors,” Lin-Manuel Miranda Takes on Another New York Story

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the blockbuster success of his musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda has been busy: actin...

Bon Iver on “SABLE,” His First New Record in Five Years

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bon Iver is the alias of Justin Vernon, who holds an unusual place in music as both a singer-songwri...

The Astonishing Rise—and Uncertain Odds—of Kamala Harris’s Presidential Campaign

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since July 21st, when Joe Biden endorsed her in the Presidential race, all eyes have been on Vice-Pr...

Brian Jordan Alvarez on “English Teacher”

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Between book bans, the movement for parental rights, the fight over cellphones, and budgets being sl...

Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Long before Donald Trump got serious about politics, Newt Gingrich saw himself as the revolutionary ...

Could the War in Gaza Cost Kamala Harris the Election?

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Michigan, many voters—particularly Arab American and Muslim voters—remain deeply upset by the...

Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Actors and comedians have usually played Donald Trump as larger than life, almost as a cartoon. In t...

Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the war in Ukraine began, the historian Timothy Snyder has made several trips to Ukraine, and ...

Can Trump Voters Still Change Their Minds?

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The political strategist Sarah Longwell has dedicated the last seven years to understanding why so m...

Lake Street Dive Performs in the Studio

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lake Street Dive recorded their first album with money that their bassist won in a songwriting conte...

Josh Shapiro on How Kamala Harris Can Win Pennsylvania

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2024, all eyes are on Pennsylvania: its nineteen electoral votes make it the largest swing state,...

A Legend on Broadway, Patti LuPone Makes Her Début in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Patti LuPone has been a mainstay on Broadway for half a century. She’s appeared in some 30 Broadwa...

Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Of the sixty-five lawsuits that Donald Trump’s team filed in the 2020 election, Democrats won sixt...

Ian Frazier’s Tour of “Paradise Bronx”

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“I like to look at places that people aren’t seeing,” says Ian Frazier, the author of “Great...

The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In fiction and nonfiction, the author Danzy Senna focusses on the experience of being biracial in a ...

A Pulitzer Prize Winning Take on Finance

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of what is for many people the final days of summer, the New Yorker Radio Hour team present...

From In the Dark: What Happened That Day in Haditha?

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This program is drawn from a new season of the award-winning investigative podcast In the Dark. On a...

For Republicans, the End of Abortion Rights Was a Dangerous Victory

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the Republican National Convention in July, a platform plank in place for decades that called for...

Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Despite a surge of enthusiasm for Vice-President Kamala Harris’s campaign, the 2024 race remains e...

R.F.K., Jr., and the Central Park Bear, with Clare Malone

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone’s Profile, What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Wan...

Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nancy Pelosi, who represents California’s Eleventh Congressional District, led the Democratic Part...

Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 2)

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third Arab-Israeli war, ...

Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 1)

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third Arab-Israeli war, ...

Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the big questions about Vice-President Harris’s candidacy is undoubtedly race. She would no...

What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency, from a Veteran of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kamala Harris will face barriers as a woman running for the Presidency. “Women constantly have to ...

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina,” the Tale of an Undocumented Student at Harvard

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Catalina Ituralde is the protagonist of the novel that bears her name, “Catalina.” In the summer...

The Presidential Race Is in Uncharted Territory, but It’s Clear Who’s Winning

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The movement to persuade President Biden—long after the primaries—to drop out of the Presidentia...

Jane Mayer, David Grann, and Patrick Radden Keefe on the Importance of a Good Villain.

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During the 2023 New Yorker Festival, three legendary staff writers got together to discuss the craft...

Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The panic that gripped Democrats during and after President Biden’s performance in the June debate...

Florence Welch Talks About Life on the Road

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul. F...

Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker”

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fifty years ago, in July, 1974, The New Yorker began publishing a lengthy excerpt of Robert Caro’s...

The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the beginning of 2021, it seemed like America might be turning a new page; instead, the election ...

John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many Democrats saw John Fetterman as a progressive beacon: a Rust Belt Bernie Sanders who – with h...

Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Reality television has generally got a bad rap, but Emily Nussbaum—who received a Pulitzer Prize, ...

Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Costner has been a leading man for more than forty years and has starred in all different genr...

Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Scheer is a noted actor and comedian, and the author of the new memoir “Joyful Recollections ...

Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On July 4th—while the U.S. celebrates its break from Britain—voters in the United Kingdom will g...

After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For years, the staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman has reported on the case of Eric Smokes and David War...

Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Raphael Warnock was elected to the Senate from Georgia in the 2020 election, he made history a ...

The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports,” the journalist Mi...