David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker.

“I think it’s important — not just for me, but for the readers — that this thing exists at the highest possible level in 2016, in 2017, and on. That there’s a continuity to it. I know, because I’m not entirely stupid, that these institutions, no matter how good they are, all institutions are innately fragile. Innately fragile.”

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Remnick on Longform

[2:00] This week's New Yorker cover

[5:45] "Cover Story: Bert and Ernie’s ‘Moment of Joy’" (Françoise Mouly, Mina Kaneko • New Yorker • Jun 2013)

[9:00] "David Remnick Looks Back on Tough Decisions as ‘The New Yorker’ Turns 90" (Fresh Air • Feb 2015)

[11:15] "Going the Distance" (New Yorker • Jan 2014)

[15:00] The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Vintage Books • 2010)

[15:15] "Soul Survivor" (New Yorker • Apr 2016)

[17:15] The New Yorker Radio Hour

[25:00] "Sending Smoke Signals to Our Former Editor in Chief" (Justin Cook • The Smoke Signal • Apr 2015)

[27:45] I Married a Communist: American Trilogy (Philip Roth • Houghton Mifflin Company • 1994)

[29:45] Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Vintage Books • 1994)

[30:00] "The Struggle for Memory" (John Lloyd • The New York Times • May 1993)

[43:15] "Beyond the Soviet Abyss" (Washington Post • Mar 1991)

[48:30] "Journey to Jihad" (Ben Taub • New Yorker • Jun 2015)

[50:00] Wesley Morris on the Longform Podcast

[51:45] King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (Vintage Books • 1998)

[53:15] The 40s: The Story of a Decade (New Yorker, Henry Finder • Random House • 2014)

[53:15] The 50s: The Story of a Decade (New Yorker, Henry Finder • Random House • 2015)

[53:15] The 60s: The Story of a Decade (New Yorker, Henry Finder • Random House • 2016)

[55:00] "The Crackin’, Shakin’, Breakin’ Sounds" (Nat Hentoff • New Yorker • Oct 1964)

[55:40] "Letter From a Region in My Mind" (James Baldwin • New Yorker • Nov 1962)

[56:00] The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright • Vintage Books • 2007)

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