The New Yorker Radio Hour

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 of investigative journalism: digging for informat...

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 against Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere...

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. Florence Welch, the group’s singer and main songw...

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 Power Broker.” When the book appeared, i...

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 of 2024 feels like a strange dream that we can’t...

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 his shaved head, his hoodie, and the zip code of Br...

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, in 2016, for her work as The New Yorker’s TV cri...

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 genres of movies, but a constant in his filmography is...

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 of Trauma.” Off the screen, his true obsession i...

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 go to the polls and, according to all predictions, ...

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 Warren. When they were teen-agers in Brooklyn, in 198...

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 couple of times over. He became the first Black De...

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 Michael Waters tells the story of Zdeněk Koubek, on...

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 described her as the kind of talent who comes along only ...

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 raunchy best friends who were the glue in each ot...

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 history, contestants are alone in windowless, octagon...

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 feeling about the future, which was weird, because I...

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 emerging as a potential threat to Democrats and R...

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, an executive with the data giant Palantir who se...

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 TikTok ban that just passed with bipartisan suppor...

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 President, and he was considered a fringe candidate. He h...

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 against American financial and military support for ...

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, became famous after he recorded a phone call with Donal...

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 Spike Feresten—who wrote the famous “Soup Nazi”...

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 James Bond—than anything she’s done in Shakesp...

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 self-harm—have risen sharply over the last decad...

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 acting and music. In “Stranger Things,” Hawke plays...

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 language that may allow for exceptions to save th...

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 released in 2024: “Janet Planet,” the début f...

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 alike to exert control over what can be taught. In...

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 trained as an operatic soprano at the prestigious Ob...

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 Hell’s Kitchen. She describes the New York City ...

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 “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”  Everett tel...

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 Presidency, the New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik wr...

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’s college basketball. The advent of the transfer...

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 journalist Erin Reed reports, with nearly five hund...

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 breakout speech at the Democratic National Conventio...

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 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, as well as...

What Biden Is Thinking About the 2024 Election

02 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Despite hand-wringing among Democrats about Joe Biden’s age and his discouraging poll numbers, the President’s campaign for reëlection displays a...

Kara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People”

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kara Swisher landed on the tech beat as a young reporter at the Washington Post decades ago. She would stare at the teletype machine at the entrance a...

Lily Gladstone on Holding the Door Open for More Native Actors in Hollywood. Plus, the Brody Awards

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lily Gladstone had been in several films, but unknown to most moviegoers, when she got a call for Martin Scorsese’s period drama “Killers of a Flo...

Ty Cobb on Trump, Putin, and the Death of Alexey Navalny

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ty Cobb represented the Trump White House during the height of the Mueller-Russia probe, so he has a unique insight into the former President’s admi...

For Brontez Purnell, “Memoir Is Fiction—I Don’t Care What Anyone Says”

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brontez Purnell is a Renaissance man. He’s a musician, a dancer, a filmmaker, and the author of a number of books. His latest is “Ten Bridges I’...

“Pod Save America” ’s Jon Lovett on Trump: “The Threat of Jail Time Sharpens the Mind”

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Lovett had been deep inside politics, as a speechwriter in the Obama Administration, before he joined his colleagues Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau ...

Jacqueline Novak Is Giving Audiences “Everything She’s Got”

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The comedian Jacqueline Novak wasn’t well known before her Netflix début “Get on Your Knees.” The show was a big swing in her career, an ambiti...

Can Memes Swing the 2024 Election? Plus, Michelle Zauner on “Crying in H Mart”

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a Presidential race with two leading candidates who are broadly unpopular, any small perceived edge can make a tremendous difference. According to ...

Sheila Heti Talks with Parul Sehgal About “Alphabetical Diaries”

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The writer Sheila Heti is known for unusual approaches, but her latest work is decidedly experimental. Heti “is one of the most interesting novelist...

Jonathan Blitzer on the Battle over Immigration; and Olivia Rodrigo Talks with David Remnick

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the shadow of another election year, Democrats and Republicans are at a bitter crossroads over immigration, as the system becomes increasingly unma...

From In the Dark: The Runaway Princesses

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The wives and daughters of Dubai’s ruler live in unbelievable luxury. So why do the women in Sheikh Mohammed’s family keep trying to run away? The...

For Journalists, “Gaza Is Unprecedented,” and Deadly

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Journalism has often been a dangerous business, and many reporters have lost their lives reporting the news from conflict zones.  But the rules that ...

The Oscar Nominee Cord Jefferson on Why Race Is so “Fertile” for Comedy

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The writer and director Cord Jefferson has struck gold with his first feature film, “American Fiction.” Nominated for five Academy Awards, includi...

Pramila Jayapal: Biden’s “Coalition Has Fractured”

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic representative and leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has been sounding the alarm about President Joe Biden...

E. Jean Carroll on Trump Defamation Cases: “Money Is Precious to Him”

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After winning the Iowa caucuses by a historic margin, Donald Trump made his way to a courtroom in New York, where a jury was selected in a second defa...

Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle in “The Color Purple”

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“I think of ‘The Color Purple’ as the epic of our time,” Doreen St. Félix said in a conversation with the actress Danielle Brooks.  While St...

How Donald Trump Broke the Iowa Caucuses and Owns the G.O.P.

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This time last year, Republicans were reeling from a poorer-than-expected performance in the 2022 midterm elections; many questioned, again, whether i...

From “Talk Easy”: Sam Fragoso Interviews David Remnick

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, David Remnick asks a lot of questions, and recently he had to answer quite a few himself, sitting for a long int...

Ava DuVernay Wants Her Film “Origin” to Influence the 2024 Election

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The filmmaker Ava DuVernay has a reputation for tackling challenging material about America’s troubled past. She depicted the bloody fight to achiev...

How the Journalist John Nichols Became Another January 6th Conspiracy-Theory Target

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The veteran political reporter John Nichols was taking his daughter to the orthodontist on January 6, 2021, the fateful day when the transfer of Presi...

The Poet John Lee Clark’s “How to Communicate” Brings DeafBlind Experience to the Page

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Although many hearing and sighted people imagine DeafBlind life in tragic terms, as an experience of isolation and darkness, the poet John Lee Clark’...

Dexter Filkins Reports on the Border Crisis

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dexter Filkins has reported on conflict situations around the world, and recently spent months reporting on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border. I...

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 movie of 2023, Barbie, a literal doll, leaves the co...

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 almost fifty years: he released his widely heralded, bu...

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 hostages, who had been seized when revolutionaries...

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 bombed from the sky. You are bombed by tanks. You do...

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 her peers were working on their image and presenta...

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 former Vice-President Dick Cheney and culture warrio...

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 balance, with a leading Presidential candidate who has ...

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 prove.  But when she was inducted into the Rock & ...

“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. Decades later, as a filmmaker, he fulfilled his ch...

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 and ability to reshape the future—has put the co...

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 Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism....

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,” the writer and director Emerald Fennell (also w...

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 broad spectrum of American life. From the groceries we...

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 down with Brooke Gladstone, the host of the podcast ...

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 unarmed Black people, there have been many efforts made...

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 reason: her son, Trayvon Martin – an unarmed tee...

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 reporters Andrea Bernstein, Andy Kroll, and Ilya Marr...

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 about the conflict between Israelis and Arabs both i...

”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, but the burden that the Red Scare placed on the ...

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 with David Remnick at the New Yorker Festival. Alt...

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 noted the similarities between this unconventional ...

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 ambitious film productions like “Fitzcarraldo” and “...

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 every corner of the globe, but his status as an m...

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 Gore still believes that there is a solution to the...

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 Elon Musk, asking how it reflects ideas about power,...

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 fellow at the Hoover Institution who is deeply info...

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. But Olivia Rodrigo’s songs clearly hit home for...

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 Roaring Twenties. That sounds like a plot that F. Scot...

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 “Chemistry” that deals with the long arc of a rela...

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 for the idea of disaster capitalism: an analysis t...

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 nearly fill the city of Dallas with the unhoused. Bu...

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 business. While that may not come as a surprise given the...

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 the best-seller list this summer: “The Wager” ...

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 tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and colle...

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 Court. He rarely gave interviews or speeches. Yet his...

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 died of exertional heatstroke. The lab’s main res...

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—she spent much of her career at the State University...

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,” it described a friendship between two women who had...

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 ignored or mocked climate change. But some conservativ...

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 identity since the early nineties. But, in 2008, she...