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David Letterman discusses life after late night and songwriter Jason Isbell talks about songwriting while sober. (episode)
Retirement has given David Letterman the time to walk his dogs and to try to change the world.
Songwriter Jason Isbell finds joy in playing songs about sobriety for audiences that are definitely not sober.
Laura Poitras turns surveillance into art, David Bowie’s jazz band, and more. (episode)
The Weinbaums have heard all of David’s excuses already.
You know about mass surveillance; Laura Poitras’s museum exhibit aims to make you feel it.
David Bowie went to a hole-in-the-wall jazz club to find the musicians who shaped “Blackstar.”
In her upcoming collection, the poet Brenda Shaughnessy goes back to her own coming of age.
A humor pro has some recommendations to make life more fun.
The New Yorker’s political reporters assess the successes and failures of Barack Obama’s Presidency; Jeanette Winterson celebrates Christmas; and a poet visits the food court. (episode)
A provocative novelist celebrates the old-fashioned joys of Christmas.
David Remnick, Ryan Lizza, and Amy Davidson debate whether President Obama will go down as “one of the greats.”
The director of Moveon.org won’t “play footsie” with Trump.
A food court with heavenly pho and crispy duck is a home away from home for an immigrant poet.
A populist candidate hires an economic team from Goldman Sachs, and an English professor delivers a Hegelian analysis of Trump. Plus, Michael Chabon on TV’s best, most boring show. (episode)
Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross are archetypes of Wall Street fat cats. Can they deliver on Trump’s promises to workers?
He misses you. He misses a lot of things about you. But mostly he misses the iPad you took when you left.
Seeing Donald Trump through the lens of the German philosopher Hegel.
Venezuelans suffering an economic crisis no longer have access to basic necessities; emigrés such as Francisco Nava are sending everything they can afford back home to help.
The writer picks a TV show about the Queen, a novel about John Lennon, and an unbeatable recipe for fried chicken.
Jane Mayer gets pushback after she investigates the Koch brothers; Heather Hardy prepares for a big fight; and an astronomer makes his case for the existence of a new ninth planet. (episode)
When Jane Mayer investigated Koch Industries, somebody investigated her back.
The boxer Heather Hardy agreed to give up her prize money after she couldn't make weight for a fight. That's what it means to be a champion.
Two mothers meet on the playground, and things get weird.
The fiction writer Junot Díaz was a favorite son of the Dominican Republic—until they stripped him of the Order of Merit.
A new ninth planet is definitely out there somewhere, says the astronomer who got rid of the last ninth planet.