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In this episode, hear David Remnick interview Patti Smith, and Jonathan Safran Foer speaks with George Saunders. Both conversations were recorded at the 2015 New Yorker Festival. (episode)
Smith spoke with Remnick at the 2015 New Yorker Festival about writing and music, and she sings her hit song, “Because the Night,” with Remnick accompanying on guitar.
Saunders sat down with Foer at the 2015 New Yorker Festival for a wide-ranging conversation about ethics in writing, and how to talk about vegetarianism without angering people.
In this episode, we meet a father who's turning around a gang feud in Harlem, the owners of Sylvia's give us a tour of the famed restaurant, and two cartoonists chat about talking dogs. (episode)
David Remnick talks with staff writer George Packer, who has covered the Iraq War and American politics, about the banlieues of Paris, which have been called “incubators” of terrorism.
There was no Planet Fitness on Malcolm X Blvd. when Sylvia’s, the soul food restaurant, moved to its current location in 1967. Sylvia's family tells us how they've stayed in the game.
Staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman spent time with Taylonn Murphy to understand how and why he has dedicated his life to ending the feud that killed his daughter.
George Booth started cartooning at three-and-a-half years old, when he drew a picture of a race car stuck in the mud. Nearly 90 years old, he still contributes to The New Yorker.
Staff writer Judith Thurman introduces us to linguist Daniel Kaufman, whose mission it is to preserve some of New York City's endangered languages.
In this week's episode, we meet a couple who adopted twenty children, Elizabeth Kolbert primes us for the upcoming U.N. conference on climate change, and David Remnick goes surfing. (episode)
Roger Pasquier, a 67-year-old ornithologist, spends a good deal of time walking around with his eyes glued to the gutter, because he thinks it’s the best spot to find loose change.
When William Finnegan, a staff writer, isn’t covering conflicts in Mexico, Sudan, and Somalia, he's chasing waves. He recently gave David Remnick his first and only surfing lesson.
When the U.N. Conference on Climate Change convenes later this month, countries with different priorities and forms of government will attempt to agree on how to address global warming.
Larissa MacFarquhar, a New Yorker staff writer, spent time with the Badeaus, a family that adopted twenty children.
In this week's episode, David Remnick speaks with feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Rebecca Mead shares her love of “Hamilton,” and we learn about hacking software made for the layperson. (episode)
Vauhini Vara, who writes about technology for The New Yorker, spoke with Vinnie Omari, a hacker associated with Lizard Squad, a group trying to make hacking software for the layperson.
Staff writer Jill Lepore concludes her three-part story about her friend Adriana Alty’s search for her biological father, a Greenwich Village street poet named William “Big” Brown.
Remnick spoke with Steinem about Black Lives Matter, Hillary Clinton, and a fundamental question for activist politics: which comes first, changing hearts or changing laws?
Staff writer Rebecca Mead talks about why she loves the Hamilton soundtrack, and also talks a classic a novel by a man without children that has surprising insights on motherhood.
This excerpt from a 1961 recording, from the WNYC Archives, features a man believed to be Big Brown reciting “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” by Oscar Wilde.