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“Maestro” is the “Scariest ...

11.24.2023

Bradley Cooper tells David Remnick that he has spent his life preparing for a role like the iconic conductor Leonard Bernstein—and it shows.

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11.24.2023 “Maestro” is the “Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done” Bradley Cooper tells David Remnick that he has spent his life preparing for a role like the iconic conductor Leonard Bernstein—and it shows.
11.21.2023 Geoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence The so-called godfather of A.I. believes we need to put constraints on the technology so it won’t free itself from human control. But he’s not sure whether that’s possible.
11.17.2023 A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt talks about antisemitism “from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between.” It threatens not only Jews, she says, but the stability of democracies.
11.14.2023 Emerald Fennell’s Anatomy of Desire The new film from the director of “Promising Young Woman” isn’t just a class satire—we are all affected by our love of wealth, beauty, and power.
11.10.2023 Will the Government Put the Reins on Amazon? The Federal Trade Commission is suing the company. Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., tells David Remnick that Amazon exploits its position as a monopoly to invisibly drive up costs.
11.08.2023 From “On the Media”: David Remnick Talks with Brooke Gladstone About Reporting in Israel The New Yorker Radio Hour host joins Gladstone for a conversation about the war between Israel and Hamas, and its substantial human costs.
11.07.2023 Is a “Win-Win” Still Possible in Policing? Kai Wright leads a roundtable discussion about the attempts to reform policing in the wake of Black Lives Matter and whether those efforts have had a positive impact.
11.03.2023 Sybrina Fulton: “Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Anybody’s Son” The killing of an unarmed teenager turned a mother into an activist. Plus, poet Nicole Sealey on erasing the Ferguson Report to find a lyric within a tragedy.
10.31.2023 From On the Media: We Don’t Talk About Leonard Leo A close look at one of the most influential architects of the conservative judicial movement.
10.27.2023 Is there a Path Forward for Gaza and Israel? David Remnick hears from two sources about how Israelis and Palestinians feel about the October 7th attacks, and what the future may hold for the region.
10.24.2023 ”Fellow Travelers”: A Showtime Series Explores a Forgotten Witch Hunt The Red Scare, though focussed on Communists, also targeted gay government employees, who were fired by the thousands. A TV series based on the Thomas Mallon novel tells their story.
10.20.2023 Spike Lee on His “Dream Project,” a Joe Louis Bio-Pic The iconic filmmaker tells David Remnick how he got his start, how to direct Denzel Washington, and when he wants to retire. Plus, Louisa Thomas on the new N.B.A. season.
10.17.2023 Rodrigo Duterte’s Deadly Promise When an outrageous yet charismatic candidate for president promises to kill suspected criminals, reporter Patricia Evangelista says, we should listen: it may not be just a talking point.
10.13.2023 Werner Herzog Defends His “Ecstatic” Approach to the Truth The German filmmaking legend says the New York Times is simply “dazed and confused” when it comes to the veracity of his new memoir.
10.10.2023 Rubén Blades Wasn’t Supposed to Be a Salsa Star Rubén Blades recounts his unpredictable journey from a record-company mailroom to the top of the salsa charts.
10.06.2023 Al Gore on the Climate Crisis: “We Have a Switch We Can Flip” The self-described “recovering politician” Al Gore explains the stakes and the clear and present solution to our ongoing climate crisis.
10.04.2023 Introducing Critics at Large: The Myth-Making of Elon Musk In a preview of The New Yorker’s new culture podcast, three critics—Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz—dissect the biography of the tech founder.
10.03.2023 Should Biden Push for Regime Change in Russia? Throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine, David Remnick has talked with Stephen Kotkin, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who is deeply informed on U.S.-Russia relations, and a biographer of Stalin. With the Ukrainian counter-offensive proceeding very slowly, Kotkin ...
09.29.2023 Olivia Rodrigo Talks with David Remnick 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 Gen Z. She turned twenty this year, and has already been one of the ...
09.26.2023 Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” a Novel of High Finance The daughter of eccentric aristocrats marries a Wall Street tycoon of dubious ethics during the Roaring Twenties. That sounds like a plot that F. Scott Fitzgerald might have written, or Edith Wharton. But “Trust,” by the writer Hernan Diaz, is ...
09.22.2023 Kelly Clarkson on Writing About Divorce Twenty years after her breakout on “American Idol,” Kelly Clarkson released an album called “Chemistry” that deals with the long arc of a relationship and her recent divorce. She sat down to talk with Hanif Abdurraqib, a music writer passionate ...
09.19.2023 Naomi Klein Speaks with Jia Tolentino about “Doppelganger” 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 that the forces of big business will exploit any severe disruption to take over more space ...
09.15.2023 A Solution For the Chronically Homeless, and Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison 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. But there are proven solutions. For the chronically homeless, a key strategy is supportive housing—providing not ...
09.12.2023 Richard Brody Makes the Case for Keeping Your DVDs 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 predominance of streaming platforms, it’s a great loss to cinephiles, according to ...
09.08.2023 A Master Class with David Grann 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” and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” from 2017, which Martin Scorsese has adapted into ...
09.05.2023 Alone and on Foot in Antarctica Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and collector of rare books, maps, and fossils. But his true obsession was exploration. Worsley revered the Antarctic ...
09.01.2023 No More Souters 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 tenure was anything but low profile. Deemed a “home run” nominee by the George ...
08.29.2023 How Does Extreme Heat Affect the Body? 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 research subjects have been athletes, members of the military, and laborers. But, with climate change, even mild ...
08.25.2023 The Origins of “Braiding Sweetgrass” 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 of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry. But, when she was well established in ...
08.22.2023 Tessa Hadley on What Decades of Failure Taught Her About Writing 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 been close since childhood. Hadley’s fiction is often consumed with relationships at this scale: ...
08.18.2023 Talking to Conservatives about Climate Change Even in a summer of record-breaking heat and disasters, Republican Presidential candidates have ignored or mocked climate change. But some conservative legislators in Congress recognize that action is necessary. David Remnick talks with a leader of the Conservative Climate Caucus ...
08.15.2023 The Novelist Esmeralda Santiago on Learning to Write After a Stroke The author Esmeralda Santiago has been writing about Puerto Rico and questions of immigration and identity since the early nineties. But, in 2008, she suffered a stroke that left her unable to decipher words on a page. In the months ...
08.11.2023 Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions? The practice of legacy admissions—preferential consideration of the children of alumni—has emerged as a national flash point since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in June. Even some prominent Republicans are joining the Biden Administration in calling for its end. ...
08.08.2023 James McBride on His New Novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” James McBride’s new novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” centers on the discovery of a skeleton at the bottom of a well in a small town in Pennsylvania. What unfolds is the story of a young Black boy raised ...
08.04.2023 Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music Last month, the country singer Jason Aldean released a music video for “Try That in a Small Town,” a song that initially received little attention. But the video cast the song’s lyrics in a new light. While Aldean sings, “Try ...
08.01.2023 A Trip to the Boundary Waters Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty and violence. His books set in the city include “An American Summer,” “There Are No Children Here,” and “Never a City So Real.” Nevertheless, ...
07.28.2023 Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After” 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 little clubs in the East Village—anywhere that had a piano, basically. But anonymity didn’t last long. ...
07.25.2023 Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto” Colson Whitehead is one of the most lauded writers working today. His 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad” won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; he won the Pulitzer again for his next novel, “The Nickel Boys,” ...
07.21.2023 Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan relied on a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 biography of the father of the atomic bomb, “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” by Kai Bird ...
07.18.2023 Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King” “When people think of the crack epidemic, they think of crime,” the journalist Donovan X. Ramsey tells David Remnick. “But they don’t necessarily know the ways that it impacted the most vulnerable—the ways that it changed the lives of people ...
07.14.2023 A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race No Labels, which pitches itself as a centrist movement to appeal to disaffected voters, has secured a considerable amount of funding and is working behind the scenes to get on Presidential ballots across the country. The group has yet to ...
07.11.2023 How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt Nearly one in ten Americans owe significant medical debt, a burden that can become crippling as living costs and interest rates rise. Over the past decade, a nonprofit called RIP Medical Debt has designed a novel approach to chip away ...
07.07.2023 The Conspiracies of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of a former Attorney General and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, has announced that he’s running for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He is nearly seventy years old, and has never held public ...
07.04.2023 Beyoncé Takes the Stage This summer, the most anticipated tour (in close contest with Taylor Swift) is Beyoncé’s tour for her seventh studio album, “Renaissance,” which came out in 2022. Her previous record “was about the turbulence of [her] marriage and was in some ...
06.30.2023 Russia’s No-Good, Very Failed Coup, and Jill Lepore on Amending the Constitution Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow last weekend, which killed more than a dozen Russian soldiers, fizzled as quickly as it began, but its repercussions are just beginning. The Wagner Group commander issued a video from Belarus claiming that he did ...
06.27.2023 Jonathan Mitchell, a Prominent Anti-Abortion Lawyer, on Restraining the Power of the Supreme Court In recent years, the attorney Jonathan Mitchell has become a crucial figure in the anti-abortion movement. Advising a Texas state senator, Mitchell developed Texas’s S.B. 8 legislation, which allows for civil lawsuits against individuals who have helped facilitate an abortion—acts ...
06.23.2023 A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic, and the Composer John Williams A year ago, the staff writer Emily Witt visited Fargo, North Dakota, to report on the Red River Women’s Clinic—the only abortion provider in the state. The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision had just come down, and the clinic was scrambling ...
06.20.2023 Singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun, Plus Bryan Washington The singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun recently released her fourth album, called “Proof of Life.” Raised near Phoenix, Oladokun had aspirations of becoming a preacher before turning to music in earnest. Like many of the great songwriters, she has a way of ...
06.16.2023 Dexter Filkins on the Dilemma at the Border Dexter Filkins has reported on conflict situations around the world, and recently spent months reporting on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border. In a recent piece, Filkins tries to untangle how conditions around the globe, an abrupt change in executive ...
06.13.2023 From “On the Media”: Seditious Conspiracy On January 6th, 2021, “On the Media” reporter Micah Loewinger recorded the secret communications of the Oath Keepers on a walkie-talkie app called Zello. After reporting on the findings, Loewinger received a subpoena calling on him to testify in the ...

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The New Yorker Radio Hour episodes:

“Maestro” is the “Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done”

Geoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence

A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad

Emerald Fennell’s Anatomy of Desire

Will the Government Put the Reins on Amazon?

From “On the Media”: David Remnick Talks with Brooke Gladstone About Reporting in Israel

Is a “Win-Win” Still Possible in Policing?

Sybrina Fulton: “Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Anybody’s Son”

From On the Media: We Don’t Talk About Leonard Leo

Is there a Path Forward for Gaza and Israel?

”Fellow Travelers”: A Showtime Series Explores a Forgotten Witch Hunt

Spike Lee on His “Dream Project,” a Joe Louis Bio-Pic

Rodrigo Duterte’s Deadly Promise

Werner Herzog Defends His “Ecstatic” Approach to the Truth

Rubén Blades Wasn’t Supposed to Be a Salsa Star

Al Gore on the Climate Crisis: “We Have a Switch We Can Flip”

Introducing Critics at Large: The Myth-Making of Elon Musk

Should Biden Push for Regime Change in Russia?

Olivia Rodrigo Talks with David Remnick

Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” a Novel of High Finance

Kelly Clarkson on Writing About Divorce

Naomi Klein Speaks with Jia Tolentino about “Doppelganger”

A Solution For the Chronically Homeless, and Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison

Richard Brody Makes the Case for Keeping Your DVDs

A Master Class with David Grann

Alone and on Foot in Antarctica

No More Souters

How Does Extreme Heat Affect the Body?

The Origins of “Braiding Sweetgrass”

Tessa Hadley on What Decades of Failure Taught Her About Writing

Talking to Conservatives about Climate Change

The Novelist Esmeralda Santiago on Learning to Write After a Stroke

Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions?

James McBride on His New Novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”

Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music

A Trip to the Boundary Waters

Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After”

Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”

Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director

Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King”

A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race

How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt

The Conspiracies of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Beyoncé Takes the Stage

Russia’s No-Good, Very Failed Coup, and Jill Lepore on Amending the Constitution

Jonathan Mitchell, a Prominent Anti-Abortion Lawyer, on Restraining the Power of the Supreme Court

A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic, and the Composer John Williams

Singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun, Plus Bryan Washington

Dexter Filkins on the Dilemma at the Border

From “On the Media”: Seditious Conspiracy

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