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From the stage of the New Yorker Festival, three comedians and the musical-theater genius behind “Hamilton.” (episode)
The writer, composer, and star of “Hamilton” explains what his rap-musical sensation taught him about modern politics.
Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer charmed their way into our hearts by playing versions of their younger and wilder selves on “Broad City.”
On his “WTF” podcast, Marc Maron went from arguing with Louis C.K. to interviewing President Obama.
Jane Mayer on investigating the Koch brothers; Junot Díaz on the Dominican Republic; Heather Hardy prepares for a big fight; and Dr. Mike Brown on the case for a ninth planet. (episode)
When Jane Mayer investigated Koch Industries, somebody investigated her back.
Boxer Heather Hardy fought and won a match for no prize when she couldn't make weight. That's what it means to be a champion.
Two mothers meet on the playground, and things get weird.
Fiction writer Junot Díaz was a favorite son of the Dominican Republic—until they stripped him of the Order of Merit.
The ninth planet is out there, says the astronomer who killed Pluto.
In this episode, Patrick Radden Keefe on the drug dealers who may help bring El Chapo to justice, and David Remnick talks to Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza. (episode)
Before Sean Penn caught up with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Flores twins helped lead authorities to the drug kingpin. Here's how that bust went down.
David Remnick talks to Alicia Garza, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, about the aspirations of the organization and why she won't support Hillary Clinton.
Acclaimed fiction writer Nathan Englander has always worked around the clock, but now he is trying the notoriously grueling CrossFit.
Larry Wood has won The New Yorker Cartoon Caption contest seven times. He shares his tricks with The New Yorker's Susan Morrison.
Santa Fe’s cowboy past and its New Age present collide in these short sketches from Jack Handey.
In this episode, Sarah Koenig talks to David Remnick about the latest season of Serial, Jelani Cobb revisits his old high school, and poet Robin Coste Lewis talks to Hilton Als. (episode)
In this interview, Koenig tells Remnick why she never fit in as a newspaper writer, and how that led her to the style she cultivated as a producer of This American Life and Serial.
After Robin Coste Lewis incurred brain damage from falling through a hole in the floor of a San Francisco restaurant, it took her a year just to re-learn the alphabet.
If you thought “50 Shades of Grey” was a highly watchable movie, you and film critic Richard Brody have something in common.
Jelani Cobb, a staff writer who graduated from Jamaica High in 1987, visits his alma mater and speaks with a recent alum to see how things went so wrong at the once prestigious school.
Staff writer John Seabrook and his teen-age son Harry sit down to discuss their discovery of, and secret fondness for, Ke$ha and today's other Top 40 superstars.
In this episode, David Remnick speaks with Rukmini Callimachi about reporting on ISIS for The New York Times, Aziz Ansari talks "Master of None," and Charlie Kaufman tours the Whitney. (episode)
What’s the funniest way to spook a horse? In this installment of Life’s a Batch, cartoonists Matt Diffee and Emily Flake hash out some joke ideas over the course of a work week.
“If a white guy wrote 'Indians on T.V.,' it would be horrible,” says Aziz Ansari, who created and stars (alongside his own parents) in the Netflix series, “Master of None.”
Reporter Rukmini Callimachi talks to David Remnick about what she's learned, and what it's like being a woman covering ISIS.
Dr. Omer Salih Mahdi, who worked as a translator for writer George Packer in Iraq, is now a doctor at a hospital in Indiana, where Syrian refugees are being turned away.
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, co-directors of the new film "Anomalisa," talk to staff writer Tad Friend about making a puppet movie for adults.