The New Yorker Radio Hour

How the Culture Wars Came to the Catholic Church

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The pontificate of Pope Francis, which just reached its tenth year, has brought a greater willingness to engage with modern issues. Francis has addres...

What if the Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action?

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears likely to strike down affirmative action, in a decisio...

Trans Activist Janet Mock Finds Her Voice

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Janet Mock first heard the word “māhū,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside the male-female binary, when she was twelve. She had...

Masha Gessen on the Battle Over Trans Rights

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many culture-war politicians are attacking the rights of trans people, and making a regressive view of gender as biology the key to their platforms. I...

Introducing: “In The Dark”

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“In The Dark,” the acclaimed investigative podcast from American Public Media, is joining The New Yorker and Condé Nast Entertainment. In its f...

Chloe Bailey on Working Solo; and the Lost New Jersey Photos of Cartier-Bresson

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When they were just thirteen and eleven years old, sisters Chloe and Halle Bailey started posting videos of themselves singing on YouTube and quickly ...

The Russian Activist Maria Pevchikh on the Fate of Alexey Navalny, and the Future of Russia

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Well before launching the horrifying campaign against Ukraine a year ago, Vladimir Putin had been undermining Russia as well: normalizing corruption o...

Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”; and the 2023 Brody Awards

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is in a genre all its own, and is an extremely unlikely favorite for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It’...

The Pandemic at Three: Who Got it Right?

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its fourth year, we can begin to gain some clarity on which countries, and which U.S. states, had the best outcome...

Angela Bassett on Playing Tina Turner and Queen Ramonda of Wakanda

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been almost three decades since Angela Bassett emerged in Hollywood as a “totem of empowered Black womanhood,” as Michael Schulman puts it—...

A Year of the War in Ukraine

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the year since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians have shown incredible fortitude on the battlefield. Yet an end to the conflict seems nowhere in sigh...

Martin McDonagh Talks with Patrick Radden Keefe

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Martin McDonagh burst onto the London theatre scene as a young playwright in the nineteen-nineties. At one point, he had four plays running simultaneo...

Chuck D on How Hip-Hop Changed the World

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Forty years ago, Chuck D showed listeners how exciting, radical, and unpredictable hip-hop could be. His song “Fight the Power” became a protest a...

Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thirty-four years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa calling for the assassination of the novelist Salman Rushdie...

Bonnie Raitt Talks with David Remnick

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You couldn’t write a history of American music without a solid chapter on Bonnie Raitt. From her roots as a blues guitarist, she’s created a gorge...

The Custody Battles Awaiting Mothers of Children Conceived in Rape

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Exceptions in the case of rape used to be considered a necessity in abortion legislation, even within the pro-life movement. But today ten states have...

What Exactly Does “Woke” Mean, and How Did It Become so Powerful?

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many on the right blame “wokeness” for all of America’s ills—everything from deadly mass shootings to lower military recruitment. Florida’s ...

Michael Schulman on Oscars History, and a Visit with “Annie” Composer Charles Strouse

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Despite years of controversy, the Academy Awards and the other awards shows remain must-watch television for many Americans. The awards may be “unre...

A Local Paper First Sounded the Alarm on George Santos. Nobody Listened.

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

George Santos is hardly the first scammer elected to office—but his lies, David Remnick says, are “extra.” Most Americans learned of Santos’s ...

Deepti Kapoor Discusses “Age of Vice” with Parul Sehgal

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Deepti Kapoor describes New Delhi, the setting of her novel “Age of Vice” as “extremely beautiful, but also violent. . . . It’s a place where ...

In Politics, How Old Is Too Old?

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It wasn’t so long ago that Ronald Reagan was considered over the hill, too old to govern. Now a sitting President has turned eighty in office, and a...

The Photographer Who Documented a Long-Forgotten Pan-African Festival

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Forty-six years ago, a young photographer named Marilyn Nance got the opportunity of a lifetime. A student at the Pratt Institute, an art school in Br...

Bob Woodward on His Trump Tapes

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bob Woodward is not one to editorialize. But, during his interviews with Donald Trump at the time of the COVID-19 crisis, Woodward found himself shout...

“Giselle,” and What to Do with the Problematic Past – Part II

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the renowned choreographer Akram Khan was commissioned to update the classic “Giselle” for the English National Ballet, he couldn’t simply ...

What to Do with the Problematic Past, Part I

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We draw meaning and comfort from traditions, but when the world changes, traditions can stop reflecting our values and cause us pain. This episode fea...

As Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith Hit the Road

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tracy K. Smith was named Poet Laureate in 2017, at the beginning of the fierce partisan divide of the Trump era. She quickly turned to her craft to ad...

Kirk Douglas, the Guitarist for the Roots, Revamps the Holiday Classics

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the guitarist for the Roots, the band for “The Tonight Show,” Kirk Douglas plays anything and everything. So David Remnick put him to the test ...

An Audiobook Master on the Secrets of Her Craft

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You’ve probably never heard of Robin Miles, but you may well have heard her—possibly at some length. Miles is an actor who’s cultivated a partic...

Ina Garten: Cooking Is Hard; Plus an Essay from Susan Orlean

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. Although she is a gregarious teacher and presence o...

The poet John Lee Clark Translates the DeafBlind Experience to the Page

13 Dec 2022

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’...

Politico’s Mathias Döpfner, and Sam Knight Reports from Qatar

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The staff writer Sam Knight was in Qatar recently, reporting on the World Cup, where, despite years of controversy, a familiar rhythm of upsets, trium...

Is Our Democracy Safe?

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This year’s midterm elections were widely seen as a victory for democracy in the United States. Election deniers were defeated in many closely watch...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Elections

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

J. Michael Luttig is a retired judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and a prominent legal mind in conservative circles, close with figures including Cla...

Why Christine Baranski Fought the Good Fight

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The veteran stage and screen actress Christine Baranski first became a household name thanks to her Emmy-winning turn on the nineties sitcom “Cybill...

Quinta Brunson, a “Child of the Internet,” Revives the Sitcom

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Quinta Brunson made a name for herself as a master of meme comedy and is a self-described “child of the Internet,” yet her ABC mockumentary series...

Unpacking the Latino Vote, and Susan Orlean on the Queen of Tigers

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the lead-up to this year’s midterm elections, many pundits expected Republicans to make significant gains among Latino voters, further eroding a ...

The Stories of #MeToo

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Five years ago, reporting on the film producer Harvey Weinstein’s history of assault and misconduct opened the floodgates of the national reckoning ...

How Qatar Took the World Cup

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

No self-respecting sports fan is naïve about the role that money plays in pro sports. But, by any standard, the greed and cynicism behind the World C...

Safia Elhillo on Vulnerability and Anger in “Girls That Never Die”

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The poet Safia Elhillo first found her voice onstage, performing in youth poetry slams in Washington, D.C., where she grew up, the child of Sudanese i...

The Man Who Escaped from Auschwitz to Warn the World

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rudolf Vrba was sent to Auschwitz at the age of seventeen, and, because he was young and in good health, he was not killed immediately but put to labo...

Mike White on the New Season of “The White Lotus” in Sicily

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The first season of “The White Lotus” won ten Emmy Awards and was a critics’ favorite. A dark satire of the privileged, the show chronicled the ...

Russell Moore on Christian Nationalism

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Russell Moore, a prominent figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, resigned over the church’s response to racism—which Moore considers a sin—...

Mayor Francis Suarez’s View from Miami

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Francis Suarez, the Republican mayor of Miami, is popular in the city he governs, and increasingly prominent beyond it. Conservative voices as dispara...

U2’s Bono Talks with David Remnick—Live

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last month, The New Yorker published a Personal History about growing up in Ireland during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. It covers the interfait...

The Playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks and Martin McDonagh, Live at The New Yorker Festival

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This year’s New Yorker Festival featured two conversations with renowned playwrights: Suzan-Lori Parks and Martin McDonagh. Parks, the first African...

The Vulnerabilities of our Voting Machines, and How to Secure Them

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The security of voting has become a huge topic of concern. That’s especially true after 2020, when it became an article of faith for Trump supporter...

In Defense of the Comic Novel: Andrew Sean Greer Talks “Less is Lost”

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur Less is a novelist—a “minor American novelist,” to be precise. He’s a man whose biggest talent seems to be taking a problem and making ...

Tom Stoppard on “Leopoldstadt,” and Geena Davis talks with Michael Schulman

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Stoppard has been a fixture on Broadway since his famous early play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” travelled there in 1967. Stoppar...

The New Abortion Underground

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the contributor Stephania Taladrid has been following a network of women who are secretly distributing abortion pil...

Major Decisions Ahead for the Supreme Court

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In its last term, the Supreme Court dropped bombshell after bombshell—marking major conservative advances on gun rights, separation of church and st...

Joshua Yaffa on What’s Next for Ukraine

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The contributor Joshua Yaffa, who was based in Moscow for years and has been reporting from Ukraine since the start of the war, speaks to David Remnic...

Billy Eichner on “Bros” and Joyce Carol Oates on “Blonde”

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the first queer rom-coms released in cinemas by a major studio, “Bros” is making movie history. But the film’s co-writer and star, the co...

Why Play Music: A Conversation with Questlove and Maggie Rogers

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this month, two acclaimed musicians—Questlove and Maggie Rogers—joined The New Yorker’s Kelefa Sanneh live onstage for a conversation th...

Roger Federer on Retirement and His Evolution in Tennis

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Roger Federer is playing the last professional tennis match of his career this week. It’s the end of an incredible run. Over two decades, he has dem...

Will Voter Suppression Become the Law?

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Now seven weeks away, the midterms are often cast as a referendum on the President and his party. But, this year, some see democracy itself on the bal...

Andy Borowitz, and the Hunt for Invasive Lionfish

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Not only are we living in a time where people are proud of their ignorance, argues the writer and comedian Andy Borowitz, but some of our most educate...

How Sheryl Lee Ralph Is Reshaping Hollywood

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sheryl Lee Ralph has been a staple of Black entertainment for decades. She played Deena Jones in the original Broadway production of “Dreamgirls,”...

Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nearly seventy years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, our public schools effectively remain segregated. And, by some measures, New York...

Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aimee Mann, the celebrated Los Angeles singer and songwriter, recently released an album called “Queens of the Summer Hotel.” It was inspired in p...

Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At The New Yorker Festival, Dave Grohl talked with Kelefa Sanneh about Grohl’s recent book, “The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.” Grohl, w...

A New Civil War in America?

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Since the F.B.I. raid on former President Donald Trump’s home, Mar-A-Lago, the phrases “civil war” and “lock and load” have trended on right...

The Actor Jenifer Lewis: Mother, Activist, Hurricane

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jenifer Lewis is known as the “Mother of Black Hollywood” for good reason; her screen progeny have included Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, and T...

What’s Driving Black Candidates to the Republican Party?

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Republican Party has recently attracted an almost unprecedented number of Black candidates to its fold—more than at any time since the Reconstru...

Neil Gaiman on the Power of Fantasy in our Lives

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Gaiman, one of the great fantasy writers of our time, first started writing his comic series “The Sandman” in the nineteen-eightiess. Decades...

Designing a Soundscape for the Cars of the Future

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Electric cars, compared to cars with internal-combustion engines, are nearly silent, which can present a danger to cyclists and pedestrians. So car co...

Elizabeth Kolbert on a Historic Climate Bill, Plus a Lesson from Kansas

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Inflation Reduction Act now before Congress is being celebrated as the most important piece of climate legislation in the history of this country—...

A Trip to the Boundary Waters

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of the city of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty and violence. His books set in Chicago include “...

Jane Mayer on Ohio’s Lurch to the Right

06 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last month, the story of a 10-year-old rape victim captured national headlines. The young girl was forced to travel out of state because of Ohio’s d...

Notes from a Warming World

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Much of the globe has seen record-breaking temperatures in recent heat waves that seem increasingly routine. Dhruv Khullar, a contributor and a practi...

Jamie Raskin on the Facts of January 6th, and the Danger Ahead

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, serves on Congress’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol.  He spoke with ...

Jason Isbell on Songwriting While Sober

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Isbell got into the music business early; he had a publishing deal when he was twenty-one. But he really came into his own as a songwriter aroun...

New Mexico Is a “Safe Haven” for Abortion Between Texas and Arizona

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared the state a “reproductive safe haven” between Arizona to the west, and Texas to the ea...

The Nerdwriter Conquers the Internet, Plus Kelefa Sanneh on Country Radio

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Puschak, known on YouTube as the Nerdwriter, posts videos dissecting topics from Shakespeare and Tarkovsky to Superman; from Martin Luther King, ...

The Writer Dmitry Bykov on Putin’s Russia, the Land of the “Most Free Slaves”

15 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Until very recently, Dmitry Bykov was a huge presence on the Russian literary scene. He is a novelist, a poet, a biographer, and a critic. He was a fr...

The Comedian Hannah Gadsby Renounces Comedy, and Patricia Marx Tries to Relax

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The comedian Hannah Gadsby has been touring this summer with a show called “Body of Work.” She came to wide attention in 2018, with the Netflix sp...

What Precedents Would Clarence Thomas Overturn Next?

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Justice Clarence Thomas once was an outlier for his legal views. But Thomas is now the heart of the Court’s conservative bloc, and his concurring op...

Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime. But she was stunned when, in 1983, Willem and his best friend...

Jia Tolentino and Stephania Taladrid on the End of Roe v. Wade

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dobbs case was not a surprise; given the draft opinion that was leaked in May, its decision to overturn Roe v. Wad...

Why Do Conservatives Love Hungary’s Viktor Orbán?

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz first heard that the Conservative Political Action Conference, the flagship event of the American cons...

Alan Alda, Podcaster

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Alda spent his early years in the burlesque theatres where his father, the actor Robert Alda, would perform. Those early years opened his eyes in...

Forget Dating Apps—the “Marriage Pact” Goes for the Long Haul

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A survey that started as a student project at Stanford University has become a popular dating and relationship tool on campuses across the country. It...

Dexter Filkins on the Rise of Ron DeSantis

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has shown himself uniquely skilled at attracting attention beyond the borders of his home state.  Just this month, DeSa...

Michael R. Jackson on “A Strange Loop,” His Black, Queer Coming-of-Age Musical

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael R. Jackson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “A Strange Loop” features a Black queer writer named Usher, who works as an usher, ...

The Adrenaline Rush of Racing Drones

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Frazier, who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where thre...

Regina Spektor on Her New Album, “Home, Before and After”

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Twenty years ago, Regina Spektor was yet another aspiring musician in New York, lugging around a backpack full of self-produced CDs, and playing at li...

Masha Gessen on the Quiet in Kyiv

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Masha Gessen is reporting for The New Yorker on the war in Ukraine, which is now in its fourth month. They checked in with David Remnick from Kyiv, wh...

“The Book of Queer,” and “Bob’s Burgers” Hits the Big Screen

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

While working on his Ph.D., the historian Eric Cervini (whose book “The Deviant’s War” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) noticed the lack o...

Remembering Roger Angell, and Fishing with Karen Chee

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Roger Angell, who died last week, at the age of 101, was inducted in 2014 into the Baseball Hall of Fame in recognition of his extraordinary accomplis...

What Makes a Mass Shooter?

27 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In America, unthinkable violence has become routine.  In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, David Remnick speaks with the researchers...

Florence and the Machine, Live at The New Yorker Festival

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul; the band’s most recent record, “Dance Fever,”...

The Attack on Gender-Affirming Medical Care

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Across the United States, conservative politicians are leading a backlash against L.G.B.T.Q. identity, framing legal restrictions as protection of chi...

The Comedian Megan Stalter on Finding Inspiration in American Absurdity

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Before the pandemic, Megan Stalter was an unknown comedian, trying to catch a lucky break at clubs in New York City. But with the arrival of COVID-19,...

The Battle After Roe v. Wade

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Assuming that Justice Samuel Alito’s final opinion in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization gets majority sup...

Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” is in a genre all its own—you could call it sci-fi-martial-arts-family-drama.  Stephanie Hsu plays both Joy...

The Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi; and a Look at White Empathy

06 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, a draft opinion was leaked which suggests that a majority of Supreme Court Justices are ready to overturn the precedents of Roe v. Wade and...

Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rickie Lee Jones emerged into the pop world fully formed; her début album was nominated for five Grammys, in 1980, and she won for Best New Artist. O...

A Ukrainian Diplomat on the Future of Russian Aggression

29 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters a third month, prospects of ending the conflict are still nowhere in sight, and there seems to be no end to ...

Viola Davis on Playing Michelle Obama, and Finding Her Voice as an Actor

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis traces her career in Hollywood back to a single moment of inspiration from her childhood: watching Cicely Tyson st...

Ronan Farrow on the Threat of Modern Spyware

22 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ronan Farrow has published an investigation into a software called Pegasus and its maker, NSO Group. Pegasus is one of the most invasive spywares know...

“We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and a Short History of Movies about the Internet

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Internet can be a scary place in real life, and far more so in Jane Schoenbrun’s film “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” which premi...