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Roger Federer on Retirement...

09.23.2022

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 demonstrated an unmatchable court intelligence and temperament, winning twenty Grand Slam titles and spending ...

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09.23.2022 Roger Federer on Retirement and His Evolution in Tennis 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 demonstrated an unmatchable court intelligence and temperament, winning twenty Grand Slam titles and spending ...
09.20.2022 Will Voter Suppression Become the Law? 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 ballot. One of those people is the attorney Mark Elias, who has made ...
09.16.2022 Andy Borowitz, and the Hunt for Invasive Lionfish 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 educated politicians are now playing down their intelligence as a strategy to get ...
09.13.2022 How Sheryl Lee Ralph Is Reshaping Hollywood Sheryl Lee Ralph has been a staple of Black entertainment for decades. She played Deena Jones in the original Broadway production of “Dreamgirls,” and was in “Sister Act 2” alongside Lauryn Hill and Whoopi Goldberg. She’s currently starring in the ...
09.09.2022 Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School Nearly seventy years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, our public schools effectively remain segregated. And, by some measures, New York City has the most segregated system in the country. For a group of high schools in Brooklyn, ...
09.06.2022 Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande Aimee Mann, the celebrated Los Angeles singer and songwriter, recently released an album called “Queens of the Summer Hotel.” It was inspired in part by Susanna Kaysen’s best-selling memoir “Girl, Interrupted,” about Kaysen’s time in a psychiatric hospital. Mann sat ...
09.02.2022 Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music At The New Yorker Festival, Dave Grohl talked with Kelefa Sanneh about Grohl’s recent book, “The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.” Grohl, who was the drummer for Nirvana before becoming the front man of the Foo Fighters, recalled one ...
08.30.2022 A New Civil War in America? 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-wing social media. The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security are taking the threats seriously, and issued ...
08.26.2022 The Actor Jenifer Lewis: Mother, Activist, Hurricane Jenifer Lewis is known as the “Mother of Black Hollywood” for good reason; her screen progeny have included Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, and Tupac Shakur. In her latest turn, she’s playing the alpha boss of a home-shopping network on the ...
08.23.2022 What’s Driving Black Candidates to the Republican Party? The Republican Party has recently attracted an almost unprecedented number of Black candidates to its fold—more than at any time since the Reconstruction era. “In a moment where the Party . . . has really wholeheartedly embraced white-grievance politics,” Leah ...
08.19.2022 Neil Gaiman on the Power of Fantasy in our Lives Neil Gaiman, one of the great fantasy writers of our time, first started writing his comic series “The Sandman” in the nineteen-eightiess. Decades later, a TV adaptation is a huge hit on Netflix, topping the platform’s charts in countries across ...
08.16.2022 Designing a Soundscape for the Cars of the Future Electric cars, compared to cars with internal-combustion engines, are nearly silent, which can present a danger to cyclists and pedestrians. So car companies are turning to sound engineers to craft artificial soundtracks for things like backing up, or starting the ...
08.12.2022 Elizabeth Kolbert on a Historic Climate Bill, Plus a Lesson from Kansas The Inflation Reduction Act now before Congress is being celebrated as the most important piece of climate legislation in the history of this country—which is “a pretty low bar,” the staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Kolbert tells David Remnick, ...
08.09.2022 A Trip to the Boundary Waters 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 “An American Summer,” “There Are No Children Here,” and “Never a City So ...
08.06.2022 Jane Mayer on Ohio’s Lurch to the Right 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 draconian abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, which would have been nearly ...
08.02.2022 Notes from a Warming World Much of the globe has seen record-breaking temperatures in recent heat waves that seem increasingly routine. Dhruv Khullar, a contributor and a practicing physician, looks at the effects of extreme heat in India, where the capital, New Delhi, recorded a ...
07.29.2022 Jamie Raskin on the Facts of January 6th, and the Danger Ahead Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, serves on Congress’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol. He spoke with David Remnick about the effort to demonstrate Donald Trump’s culpability in the insurrection in a way that ...
07.26.2022 Jason Isbell on Songwriting While Sober 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 around ten years ago, as he was getting sober from years of alcohol ...
07.22.2022 New Mexico Is a “Safe Haven” for Abortion Between Texas and Arizona In New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared the state a “reproductive safe haven” between Arizona to the west, and Texas to the east. Already, she says, New Mexico’s few abortion clinics are seeing an influx of patients from ...
07.19.2022 The Nerdwriter Conquers the Internet, Plus Kelefa Sanneh on Country Radio Evan Puschak, known on YouTube as the Nerdwriter, posts videos dissecting topics from Shakespeare and Tarkovsky to Superman; from Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump. The videos are complex; he may spend weeks editing image, sound, ...
07.15.2022 The Writer Dmitry Bykov on Putin’s Russia, the Land of the “Most Free Slaves” 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 frequent presence on Echo of Moscow, the liberal radio station that was ...
07.15.2022 The Writer Dmitry Bykov on Putin’s Russia, the Land of the “Most Free Slaves” 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 frequent presence on Echo of Moscow, the liberal radio station that was ...
07.12.2022 The Comedian Hannah Gadsby Renounces Comedy, and Patricia Marx Tries to Relax 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 special “Nanette.” It was a full-length comedy show, and, at the same time, a ...
07.08.2022 What Precedents Would Clarence Thomas Overturn Next? 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 opinion in the recent abortion ruling calls out some other precedents the Court might overturn. ...
07.05.2022 Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family 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, Cornelius van Hout, were revealed to be the masterminds behind the audacious kidnapping ...
07.01.2022 Jia Tolentino and Stephania Taladrid on the End of Roe v. Wade 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. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey was nearly a certainty. But the effects ...
06.27.2022 Why Do Conservatives Love Hungary’s Viktor Orbán? When the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz first heard that the Conservative Political Action Conference, the flagship event of the American conservative movement, was holding a meeting in Hungary, he thought it might be a joke. “A lot of ...
06.24.2022 Alan Alda, Podcaster 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 more ways than one: “I was very aware of the naked women,” he told ...
06.21.2022 Forget Dating Apps—the “Marriage Pact” Goes for the Long Haul A survey that started as a student project at Stanford University has become a popular dating and relationship tool on campuses across the country. Its goal is to delve deeper than the superficial information found on a typical dating-app profile, ...
06.17.2022 Dexter Filkins on the Rise of Ron DeSantis Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has shown himself uniquely skilled at attracting attention beyond the borders of his home state. Just this month, DeSantis blocked state funds for the Tampa Bay Rays stadium after players voiced support for gun control in ...
06.15.2022 Michael R. Jackson on “A Strange Loop,” His Black, Queer Coming-of-Age Musical 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, struggling to write a musical about a Black queer writer. Jackson’s work tackles the terror of the ...
06.14.2022 The Adrenaline Rush of Racing Drones 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 three roommates build, fly, and race drones. Jordan Temkin, Zachry Thayer, and Travis McIntyre were ...
06.10.2022 Regina Spektor on Her New Album, “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. But anonymity in Spektor’s case didn’t ...
06.07.2022 Masha Gessen on the Quiet in Kyiv 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, which seems almost normal, with “hipsters in cafés” and people riding electric ...
06.03.2022 “The Book of Queer,” and “Bob’s Burgers” Hits the Big Screen 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 of popular histories on L.G.B.T.Q. issues. Researchers were publishing plenty of papers, but they were mostly ...
05.31.2022 Remembering Roger Angell, and Fishing with Karen Chee 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 accomplishment as a baseball writer. But in a career at The New Yorker that ...
05.27.2022 What Makes a Mass Shooter? In America, unthinkable violence has become routine. In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, David Remnick speaks with the researchers Jillian Peterson and James Densley, whose book “The Violence Project” is the most in-depth study of mass ...
05.24.2022 Florence and the Machine, Live at The New Yorker Festival 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,” just came out. Florence Welch, the group’s singer and main songwriter, is by turns introspective and ...
05.20.2022 The Attack on Gender-Affirming Medical Care Across the United States, conservative politicians are leading a backlash against L.G.B.T.Q. identity, framing legal restrictions as protection of children. Several states have introduced laws to ban medical treatments known as gender-affirming care—including hormones and puberty blockers—prescribed to adolescents. Major ...
05.17.2022 The Comedian Megan Stalter on Finding Inspiration in American Absurdity 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, social media became her only outlet, and she quickly found an audience with ...
05.13.2022 The Battle After Roe v. Wade Assuming that Justice Samuel Alito’s final opinion in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization gets majority support, there will be profound social, political, and health-care implications across the United States. Margaret Talbot, Peter Slevin and Jia ...
05.10.2022 Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once” “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, an angsty teen-ager struggling with her immigrant mother, and Jobu, an omnipotent, interdimensional supervillain. “The relationship between Evelyn and ...
05.06.2022 The Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi; and a Look at White Empathy 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 Planned Parenthood v. Casey—the decisions that have guaranteed a right to abortion at ...
05.06.2022 Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Stephanie Hsu is a veteran of stage and television, but “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is her first feature film, and she débuts with a bang: the actress plays both an angsty teen struggling with her immigrant mother, and an ...
05.03.2022 Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road 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. One of the songs on that record was “The Last Chance Texaco,” and ...
04.29.2022 A Ukrainian Diplomat on the Future of Russian Aggression 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 the destruction that Vladimir Putin is willing to inflict. Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ...
04.25.2022 Viola Davis on Playing Michelle Obama, and Finding Her Voice as an Actor The Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis traces her career in Hollywood back to a single moment of inspiration from her childhood: watching Cicely Tyson star in the 1974 movie “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.” “I saw excellence and craft, and ...
04.22.2022 Ronan Farrow on the Threat of Modern Spyware Ronan Farrow has published an investigation into a software called Pegasus and its maker, NSO Group. Pegasus is one of the most invasive spywares known; it allows users—including law-enforcement officials or government authorities—to hack into a target’s smartphone, gaining access ...
04.19.2022 “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and a Short History of Movies about the Internet 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 premièred at the Sundance Film Festival last year and is being released in theatres ...
04.12.2022 Jennifer Egan on the Literary Pleasures of the Concept Album Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “The Candy House,” one of the most anticipated books of the year, has just been published. It is related—not a sequel exactly, but something like a sibling—to her Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” ...

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The New Yorker Radio Hour episodes:

Roger Federer on Retirement and His Evolution in Tennis

Will Voter Suppression Become the Law?

Andy Borowitz, and the Hunt for Invasive Lionfish

How Sheryl Lee Ralph Is Reshaping Hollywood

Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School

Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande

Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music

A New Civil War in America?

The Actor Jenifer Lewis: Mother, Activist, Hurricane

What’s Driving Black Candidates to the Republican Party?

Neil Gaiman on the Power of Fantasy in our Lives

Designing a Soundscape for the Cars of the Future

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

A Trip to the Boundary Waters

Jane Mayer on Ohio’s Lurch to the Right

Notes from a Warming World

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

Jason Isbell on Songwriting While Sober

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

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

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

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

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

What Precedents Would Clarence Thomas Overturn Next?

Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family

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

Why Do Conservatives Love Hungary’s Viktor Orbán?

Alan Alda, Podcaster

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

Dexter Filkins on the Rise of Ron DeSantis

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

The Adrenaline Rush of Racing Drones

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

Masha Gessen on the Quiet in Kyiv

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

Remembering Roger Angell, and Fishing with Karen Chee

What Makes a Mass Shooter?

Florence and the Machine, Live at The New Yorker Festival

The Attack on Gender-Affirming Medical Care

The Comedian Megan Stalter on Finding Inspiration in American Absurdity

The Battle After Roe v. Wade

Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

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

Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road

A Ukrainian Diplomat on the Future of Russian Aggression

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

Ronan Farrow on the Threat of Modern Spyware

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

Jennifer Egan on the Literary Pleasures of the Concept Album

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