Ava DuVernay Wants Her Film “Origin” to Influence the 2024 Election
08 Jan 2024
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The filmmaker Ava DuVernay has a reputation for tackling challenging material about America’s trou...
How the Journalist John Nichols Became Another January 6th Conspiracy-Theory Target
05 Jan 2024
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The veteran political reporter John Nichols was taking his daughter to the orthodontist on January 6...
The Poet John Lee Clark’s “How to Communicate” Brings DeafBlind Experience to the Page
02 Jan 2024
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Although many hearing and sighted people imagine DeafBlind life in tragic terms, as an experience of...
Dexter Filkins Reports on the Border Crisis
29 Dec 2023
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Dexter Filkins has reported on conflict situations around the world, and recently spent months repor...
From Critics at Large: The Year of the Doll
26 Dec 2023
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This bonus episode comes from The New Yorker’s Critics at Large podcast.In the highest-grossing mo...
Bruce Springsteen Has a Gift He Keeps on Giving
22 Dec 2023
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At seventy-four, Bruce Springsteen has been cementing his status as a rock-and-roll legend for almos...
Christmas in Tehran: Bringing the Holidays to Hostages
19 Dec 2023
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In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American ...
A Harrowing Detention in Gaza
15 Dec 2023
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Growing up in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha wasn’t used to seeing Israeli soldiers in person. “You are bo...
Brandy Clark: Grammy-Nominated Album Is “Authentically Me”
12 Dec 2023
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As an aspiring artist, Brandy Clark found herself in love with the craft of songwriting, as some of ...
Liz Cheney: Donald Trump Should Go to Jail if Convicted
08 Dec 2023
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Liz Cheney has been Republican royalty, and a conservative stalwart in Washington—a daughter of fo...
How Did Our Democracy Get so Fragile?
05 Dec 2023
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We’re in the midst of another election season, and yet again American democracy hangs in the balan...
Dolly Parton “Busted a Gut” Reaching for the High Notes on “Rockstar”
01 Dec 2023
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After six decades as an icon in country music, it’s hard to imagine Dolly Parton had anything to p...
“Maestro” is the “Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done”
24 Nov 2023
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As a child, Bradley Cooper would mime conducting an orchestra, and he asked for a baton from Santa. ...
Geoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence
21 Nov 2023
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The American public’s increasing fascination with artificial intelligence—its rapid advancement ...
A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad
17 Nov 2023
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Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is a noted historian of antisemitism, and serves the State Department as...
Emerald Fennell’s Anatomy of Desire
14 Nov 2023
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For the follow-up to her acclaimed and controversial début feature film, “Promising Young Woman,”...
Will the Government Put the Reins on Amazon?
10 Nov 2023
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In a relatively short period of time, Amazon has exerted an enormous amount of influence over a broa...
From “On the Media”: David Remnick Talks with Brooke Gladstone About Reporting in Israel
08 Nov 2023
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As Israel marks one month since the deadliest terrorist attack in its history, David Remnick sits do...
Is a “Win-Win” Still Possible in Policing?
07 Nov 2023
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As the Black Lives Matter movement brought sustained national attention to police shootings of unarm...
Sybrina Fulton: “Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Anybody’s Son”
03 Nov 2023
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Sybrina Fulton was thrust into the national spotlight just over a decade ago for the worst possible ...
From On the Media: We Don’t Talk About Leonard Leo
31 Oct 2023
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In a new miniseries from “On the Media,” “We Don’t Talk About Leonard,” the ProPublica rep...
Is there a Path Forward for Gaza and Israel?
27 Oct 2023
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After returning from a week of reporting in Israel, David Remnick has two important conversations ab...
”Fellow Travelers”: A Showtime Series Explores a Forgotten Witch Hunt
24 Oct 2023
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Much of the peril and persecution of the McCarthy era is well-trodden territory in historical dramas...
Spike Lee on His “Dream Project,” a Joe Louis Bio-Pic
20 Oct 2023
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The director Spike Lee looked back at the length and breadth of his career so far during a sit-down ...
Rodrigo Duterte’s Deadly Promise
17 Oct 2023
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When Rodrigo Duterte ran for the presidency of the Philippines and won, in 2016, the Western press n...
Werner Herzog Defends His “Ecstatic” Approach to the Truth
13 Oct 2023
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The renowned German filmmaker Werner Herzog has become known for many things: his notoriously ambiti...
Rubén Blades Wasn’t Supposed to Be a Salsa Star
10 Oct 2023
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For roughly half a century, the singer Rubén Blades has been spreading the gospel of salsa music to...
Al Gore on the Climate Crisis: “We Have a Switch We Can Flip”
06 Oct 2023
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Despite months of discouraging news about extreme weather conditions, the former vice-president Al G...
Introducing Critics at Large: The Myth-Making of Elon Musk
04 Oct 2023
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In this bonus episode, the hosts of Critics at Large dissect Walter Isaacson’s new biography of El...
Should Biden Push for Regime Change in Russia?
03 Oct 2023
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Throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine, David Remnick has talked with Stephen Kotkin, a senior f...
Olivia Rodrigo Talks with David Remnick
29 Sep 2023
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Being called the voice of a generation might seem a little off to someone born after the millennium....
Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” a Novel of High Finance
26 Sep 2023
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The daughter of eccentric aristocrats marries a Wall Street tycoon of dubious ethics during the Roar...
Kelly Clarkson on Writing About Divorce
22 Sep 2023
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Twenty years after her breakout on “American Idol,” Kelly Clarkson released an album called “C...
Naomi Klein Speaks with Jia Tolentino about “Doppelganger”
19 Sep 2023
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For twenty-some years, Naomi Klein has been a leading thinker on the left. She’s especially known ...
A Solution For the Chronically Homeless, and Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison
15 Sep 2023
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About 1.2 million people in the United States experience homelessness in a given year—you could ne...
Richard Brody Makes the Case for Keeping Your DVDs
12 Sep 2023
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At the end of this month, after more than two decades, Netflix is phasing out its DVD-rental busines...
A Master Class with David Grann
08 Sep 2023
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David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of two nonfiction books that topped ...
Alone and on Foot in Antarctica
05 Sep 2023
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Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapes...
No More Souters
01 Sep 2023
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David Souter is one of the most private, low-profile Justices ever to have served on the Supreme Cou...
How Does Extreme Heat Affect the Body?
29 Aug 2023
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The Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut was named after an N.F.L. player who d...
The Origins of “Braiding Sweetgrass”
25 Aug 2023
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Robin Wall Kimmerer is an unlikely literary star. A botanist by training—a specialist in moss—sh...
Tessa Hadley on What Decades of Failure Taught Her About Writing
22 Aug 2023
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The New Yorker first published a short story by Tessa Hadley in 2002. Titled “Lost and Found,” i...
Talking to Conservatives about Climate Change
18 Aug 2023
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Even in a summer of record-breaking heat and disasters, Republican Presidential candidates have igno...
The Novelist Esmeralda Santiago on Learning to Write After a Stroke
15 Aug 2023
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The author Esmeralda Santiago has been writing about Puerto Rico and questions of immigration and id...
Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions?
11 Aug 2023
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The practice of legacy admissions—preferential consideration of the children of alumni—has emerg...
James McBride on His New Novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”
08 Aug 2023
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James McBride’s new novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” centers on the discovery of a s...
Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music
04 Aug 2023
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Last month, the country singer Jason Aldean released a music video for “Try That in a Small Town,”...
A Trip to the Boundary Waters
01 Aug 2023
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Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty and violenc...
Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After”
28 Jul 2023
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Twenty years ago, Regina Spektor was yet another aspiring musician in New York, lugging around a bac...
Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”
25 Jul 2023
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Colson Whitehead is one of the most lauded writers working today. His 2016 novel “The Underground ...
Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director
21 Jul 2023
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In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan re...
Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King”
18 Jul 2023
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“When people think of the crack epidemic, they think of crime,” the journalist Donovan X. Ramsey...
A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race
14 Jul 2023
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No Labels, which pitches itself as a centrist movement to appeal to disaffected voters, has secured ...
How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt
11 Jul 2023
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Nearly one in ten Americans owe significant medical debt, a burden that can become crippling as livi...
The Conspiracies of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
07 Jul 2023
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of a former Attorney General and the nephew of President John F. Ken...
Beyoncé Takes the Stage
04 Jul 2023
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This summer, the most anticipated tour (in close contest with Taylor Swift) is Beyoncé’s tour for...
Russia’s No-Good, Very Failed Coup, and Jill Lepore on Amending the Constitution
30 Jun 2023
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Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow last weekend, which killed more than a dozen Russian soldiers,...
Jonathan Mitchell, a Prominent Anti-Abortion Lawyer, on Restraining the Power of the Supreme Court
27 Jun 2023
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In recent years, the attorney Jonathan Mitchell has become a crucial figure in the anti-abortion mov...
A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic, and the Composer John Williams
23 Jun 2023
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A year ago, the staff writer Emily Witt visited Fargo, North Dakota, to report on the Red River Wome...
Singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun, Plus Bryan Washington
20 Jun 2023
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The singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun recently released her fourth album, called “Proof of Life.” R...
Dexter Filkins on the Dilemma at the Border
16 Jun 2023
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Dexter Filkins has reported on conflict situations around the world, and recently spent months repor...
From “On the Media”: Seditious Conspiracy
13 Jun 2023
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On January 6th, 2021, “On the Media” reporter Micah Loewinger recorded the secret communications...
The New York Times’ Publisher on the Future of Journalism, and the Poet Paul Tran
09 Jun 2023
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Over the past several years, as more democratic institutions and norms have come under attack, many ...
A Gay Russian, Exiled in Ireland
06 Jun 2023
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Evgeny Shtorn and Alexander Kondakov were living together in St. Petersburg when Vladimir Putin bega...
Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?
02 Jun 2023
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, says that AI is a powerful tool that will streamli...
The Director Rob Marshall on Halle Bailey as “The Little Mermaid”
30 May 2023
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The live-action remake of Disney’s classic “The Little Mermaid” is out this weekend. The perfo...
E. Jean Carroll and Roberta Kaplan on Defamatory Trump, and Dexter Filkins on Ron DeSantis
26 May 2023
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Earlier this month, E Jean Carroll won an unprecedented legal victory: in a civil suit, Donald Trump...
Jill Lepore on the Joy of Gardening
23 May 2023
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It’s the time of year when many people feel an overpowering urge to dig—to plant their back yard...
Behind the Scenes with Tom Hanks
19 May 2023
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Tom Hanks has been a constant presence on the American movie screen for forty years. He has played a...
How Climate Change Is Impacting Our Mental Health
16 May 2023
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In June, a first-of-its-kind lawsuit will go to trial in Montana. The case, Held v. Montana, centers...
Michael Schulman on the Writers’ Strike, and Samantha Irby with Doreen St. Félix
12 May 2023
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The last time the Writers Guild of America hit the picket line was fifteen years ago, with a strike ...
Germany’s Traumatized Kriegskinder Speak Out
09 May 2023
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A troubling question looms over the Kriegskinder, Germans who were children during the Second World ...
Have State Legislatures Gone Rogue? And Joshua Yaffa on Evan Gershkovich
05 May 2023
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Just a month ago, the story of two lawmakers expelled from the Tennessee legislature captured headli...
King Charles III Takes the Throne
02 May 2023
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On May 6th, King Charles will become the oldest person to ascend the throne of the United Kingdom. H...
Harry Belafonte, the Pioneering Artist-Activist
30 Apr 2023
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We take it for granted that entertainers can—and probably should—advocate for the causes they be...
The Fall of Tucker Carlson, and the Making of Candace Owens
28 Apr 2023
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Once a Beltway neoconservative, Tucker Carlson came to embody the angry, forgotten white man—raili...
The Bipartisan Effort to Rein in Presidential Military Power
25 Apr 2023
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Just three days after 9/11, Congress authorized a major expansion of executive power: the President ...
Jane Mayer on Justice Clarence Thomas, and the Music Critic Hanif Abdurraqib on Concert Merch
21 Apr 2023
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The cascade of revelations published by ProPublica concerning Justice Clarence Thomas—the island-h...
The Playwright Larissa FastHorse on “The Thanksgiving Play,” Broadway’s New Comedy of White Wokeness
18 Apr 2023
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“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise...
What’s Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?
14 Apr 2023
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A ban of the Chinese social-media app TikTok, first floated by the Trump Administration, is now gain...
The Country Singer Margo Price Talks with Emily Nussbaum
11 Apr 2023
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Margo Price moved to Nashville from rural Illinois at the age of nineteen. After struggling for year...
Israel on the Brink: Understanding the Judicial Overhaul, and the Protests Against It
07 Apr 2023
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed law changing the judiciary is described as a reform. ...
Brooke Shields on the Sexualization of Girls in Hollywood
04 Apr 2023
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In the late nineteen-seventies and into the eighties, Brooke Shields was one of the most famous and ...
Jon Meacham on How the Trump Fever Breaks
31 Mar 2023
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In 2018, at the midpoint of the Trump Presidency, the journalist and historian Jon Meacham wrote a b...
Who Was H. G. Carrillo? D. T. Max on a Novelist Whose Fictions Went Too Far
28 Mar 2023
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H. G. Carrillo was a writer’s writer—not a household name, but esteemed in literary circles. He ...
Jia Tolentino on the Ozempic Weight-Loss Craze
24 Mar 2023
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The prescription drug Ozempic was designed to help people with Type 2 diabetes manage their disease,...
How the Culture Wars Came to the Catholic Church
21 Mar 2023
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The pontificate of Pope Francis, which just reached its tenth year, has brought a greater willingnes...
What if the Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action?
17 Mar 2023
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In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears like...
Trans Activist Janet Mock Finds Her Voice
14 Mar 2023
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Janet Mock first heard the word “māhū,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside th...
Masha Gessen on the Battle Over Trans Rights
10 Mar 2023
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Many culture-war politicians are attacking the rights of trans people, and making a regressive view ...
Introducing: “In The Dark”
09 Mar 2023
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“In The Dark,” the acclaimed investigative podcast from American Public Media, is joining The N...
Chloe Bailey on Working Solo; and the Lost New Jersey Photos of Cartier-Bresson
07 Mar 2023
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When they were just thirteen and eleven years old, sisters Chloe and Halle Bailey started posting vi...
The Russian Activist Maria Pevchikh on the Fate of Alexey Navalny, and the Future of Russia
03 Mar 2023
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Well before launching the horrifying campaign against Ukraine a year ago, Vladimir Putin had been un...
Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”; and the 2023 Brody Awards
28 Feb 2023
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“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is in a genre all its own, and is an extremely unlikely favo...
The Pandemic at Three: Who Got it Right?
24 Feb 2023
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As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its fourth year, we can begin to gain some clarity on which coun...
Angela Bassett on Playing Tina Turner and Queen Ramonda of Wakanda
21 Feb 2023
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It’s been almost three decades since Angela Bassett emerged in Hollywood as a “totem of empowere...
A Year of the War in Ukraine
17 Feb 2023
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In the year since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians have shown incredible fortitude on the battlefield...
Martin McDonagh Talks with Patrick Radden Keefe
14 Feb 2023
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Martin McDonagh burst onto the London theatre scene as a young playwright in the nineteen-nineties. ...
Chuck D on How Hip-Hop Changed the World
10 Feb 2023
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Forty years ago, Chuck D showed listeners how exciting, radical, and unpredictable hip-hop could be....
Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa
06 Feb 2023
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Thirty-four years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa calling fo...