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Larry David vents, and a Chicago priest delivers a sermon to gang members. (episode)
The white priest who has dedicated his life to serving Chicago’s largest African-American parish.
These are missed connections you’ll be glad you missed.
A kingpin of modern comedy talks about his return to the stage and why his films aren’t “conservative.”
At the age of seventy-six, a defining figure in gay fiction talks about the changes in gay life he’s witnessed in the course of his lifetime.
David Remnick talks to the authors of a new book on the history of autism.
Black Lives Matter’s DeRay Mckesson on running for mayor, and trying to bring hope to Baltimore. (episode)
The comedian will make you laugh, uncomfortably, at topics like suicide, hospitalization, and psychotropic drugs.
The creator of “The Wire” takes stock of Freddie Gray’s Baltimore neighborhood and talks about American policing since the war on drugs.
The Black Lives Matter activist is moving from organizing protests to running for mayor of Baltimore.
Limor Fried, the founder of Adafruit, talks about the importance of D.I.Y. electronics.
Three things to read, watch, and listen to.
Cuba Gooding, Jr., tells Jeffrey Toobin how filming “American Crime Story” changed how he felt about the O. J. Simpson trial. (episode)
Jeffrey Toobin talks to Cuba Gooding, Jr., who plays O. J. in the TV series based on Toobin’s best-selling book about the case.
The poet reads from his latest collection and talks with David Remnick.
A songwriter and composer hits the campaign trail in search of musical theatre.
The wonders of modern technology can’t get Patricia Marx a solid night’s sleep.
The New Yorker cartoonists Matt Diffee and Jack Ziegler race against the clock to come up with a batch of ideas.
Laura Poitras has an exhibit at the Whitney, 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 new 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.