Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis describ...
Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In their breakout comedy series, “Broad City,” Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson played raucous and...
Love Is Blind, and Allegedly Toxic
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the reality-TV dating show “Love Is Blind,” the most watched original series in Netflix his...
Miranda July’s New Novel Takes on Marriage, Desire, and Perimenopause
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some time in her forties, something shifted in Miranda July. She started having “this new, grim fe...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Isn’t Going Away
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has never held elected office but is related to many people who have, is...
How a Tech Executive Lobbied Lawmakers for the TikTok Ban
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Remnick talks with a proponent of the TikTok ban that just passed in Washington. Jacob Helberg...
Wired’s Katie Drummond: The TikTok Ban Is “Rooted in Hypocrisy”; Plus, Hannah Goldfield on Culinary TikTok
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Remnick talks with Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired magazine, about the ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Could Swing the Election. Who Should Be More Worried—Biden or Trump?
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., appeared on this show back in July, it was early in his run for Preside...
Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Cambridge to Los Angeles and at dozens of schools in between, campuses are roiled by protest ag...
Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger, Who Refused to “Find” Votes for Donald Trump, Prepares for Another Election
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Raffensperger, who holds the usually low-profile office of secretary of state in Georgia, becam...
Jerry Seinfeld on Making a Life in Comedy (and Also, Pop-Tarts)
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Seinfeld used to have a comedy bit about the invention of the Pop-Tart, but when his friend Sp...
Judi Dench on Bond and Shakespeare
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Probably far more people have now seen Judi Dench as M—the intelligence chief who’s the boss of ...
Jonathan Haidt on the Plague of Anxiety Affecting Young People
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Both anecdotally and in research, anxiety and depression among young people—often associated with ...
Maya Hawke on the Fear of “Missing Out,” and Jen Silverman on “There’s Going to Be Trouble”
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At a band rehearsal in Brooklyn, Rachel Syme talks to Maya Hawke about switching gears between actin...
How a Republican and a Democrat Carved out Exemptions to Texas’s Abortion Ban
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Texas has multiple abortion laws, with both criminal and civil penalties for providers. They contain...
The Film Critic Justin Chang on What to See in 2024
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker’s newest staff member, Justin Chang, shares three films that he’s excited to see ...
The Attack on Black History, with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jelani Cobb
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across much of the country, Republican officials are reaching into K-12 classrooms and universities ...
Rhiannon Giddens, Americana’s Queen, on Cultivating the Black Roots of Country Music
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By the standards of any musician, Rhiannon Giddens has taken a twisting and complex path. She was tr...
Alicia Keys Returns to Her Roots with Her New Musical, “Hell’s Kitchen”
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alicia Keys’ new musical is opening on Broadway about a ten-minute walk from where she grew up in ...
Percival Everett and the Reinvention of Mark Twain’s Jim
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a new novel, Percival Everett offers a radically different perspective on the classic story “Th...
Trump’s Authoritarian Pronouncements Recall a Dark History
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, before most people imagined that Donald Trump would become a serious contender for the Pres...
March Madness 2024: College Basketball at a Crossroads
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As this year’s annual March Madness tournament kicks off, there’s a sense of malaise around men’...
Judith Butler Can’t “Take Credit or Blame” for Gender Furor
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A legal assault on trans rights by conservative groups and the Republican Party is escalating, the j...
In “Great Expectations,” Vinson Cunningham Watches Barack Obama’s Rise Up Close
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Like most Americans, Vinson Cunningham first became aware of Barack Obama in 2004, when he gave a br...
Bradley Cooper Contends for Best Actor in “Maestro”
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Maestro,” about the legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, is nominated for seven ...
What Biden Is Thinking About the 2024 Election
Sat, 2 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Despite hand-wringing among Democrats about Joe Biden’s age and his discouraging poll numbers, the...
Kara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People”
Fri, 1 Mar
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kara Swisher landed on the tech beat as a young reporter at the Washington Post decades ago. She wou...
Lily Gladstone on Holding the Door Open for More Native Actors in Hollywood. Plus, the Brody Awards
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Lily Gladstone had been in several films, but unknown to most moviegoers, when she got a call for Ma...
Ty Cobb on Trump, Putin, and the Death of Alexey Navalny
Fri, 23 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ty Cobb represented the Trump White House during the height of the Mueller-Russia probe, so he has a...
For Brontez Purnell, “Memoir Is Fiction—I Don’t Care What Anyone Says”
Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Brontez Purnell is a Renaissance man. He’s a musician, a dancer, a filmmaker, and the author of a ...
“Pod Save America” ’s Jon Lovett on Trump: “The Threat of Jail Time Sharpens the Mind”
Fri, 16 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jon Lovett had been deep inside politics, as a speechwriter in the Obama Administration, before he j...
Jacqueline Novak Is Giving Audiences “Everything She’s Got”
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The comedian Jacqueline Novak wasn’t well known before her Netflix début “Get on Your Knees.”...
Can Memes Swing the 2024 Election? Plus, Michelle Zauner on “Crying in H Mart”
Fri, 9 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In a Presidential race with two leading candidates who are broadly unpopular, any small perceived ed...
Sheila Heti Talks with Parul Sehgal About “Alphabetical Diaries”
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The writer Sheila Heti is known for unusual approaches, but her latest work is decidedly experimenta...
Jonathan Blitzer on the Battle over Immigration; and Olivia Rodrigo Talks with David Remnick
Fri, 2 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the shadow of another election year, Democrats and Republicans are at a bitter crossroads over im...
From In the Dark: The Runaway Princesses
Wed, 31 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The wives and daughters of Dubai’s ruler live in unbelievable luxury. So why do the women in Sheik...
For Journalists, “Gaza Is Unprecedented,” and Deadly
Mon, 29 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Journalism has often been a dangerous business, and many reporters have lost their lives reporting t...
The Oscar Nominee Cord Jefferson on Why Race Is so “Fertile” for Comedy
Fri, 26 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The writer and director Cord Jefferson has struck gold with his first feature film, “American Fict...
Pramila Jayapal: Biden’s “Coalition Has Fractured”
Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic representative and leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has...
E. Jean Carroll on Trump Defamation Cases: “Money Is Precious to Him”
Fri, 19 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After winning the Iowa caucuses by a historic margin, Donald Trump made his way to a courtroom in Ne...
Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle in “The Color Purple”
Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:01:25 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
“I think of ‘The Color Purple’ as the epic of our time,” Doreen St. Félix said in a convers...
How Donald Trump Broke the Iowa Caucuses and Owns the G.O.P.
Fri, 12 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This time last year, Republicans were reeling from a poorer-than-expected performance in the 2022 mi...
From “Talk Easy”: Sam Fragoso Interviews David Remnick
Wed, 10 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, David Remnick asks a lot of questions, and recently he had to ...
Ava DuVernay Wants Her Film “Origin” to Influence the 2024 Election
Mon, 8 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
Fri, 5 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
Tue, 2 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Although many hearing and sighted people imagine DeafBlind life in tragic terms, as an experience of...
Dexter Filkins Reports on the Border Crisis
Fri, 29 Dec
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American ...
A Harrowing Detention in Gaza
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
The American public’s increasing fascination with artificial intelligence—its rapid advancement ...
A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is a noted historian of antisemitism, and serves the State Department as...
Emerald Fennell’s Anatomy of Desire
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapes...
No More Souters
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan re...
Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King”
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow last weekend, which killed more than a dozen Russian soldiers,...