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Patrick Radden Keefe reveals that he may have solved a notorious murder, and the costume designer finally gets her due. (article)
Patrick Radden Keefe reveals that he may have solved a notorious murder, and the costume designer finally gets her due. (episode)
A New Yorker writer solves the most notorious murder of the Troubles.
The New Yorker’s film critic introduces the best movies of 2018.
Ruth E. Carter has been designing costumes for more than thirty years. With an Oscar nomination for her work on “Black Panther,” she may finally get her due.
Staff writer Ben McGrath tells the story of Dick Conant, a troubled man who spent years of his life crisscrossing America by canoe, like a Mark Twain character.
The historian Jill Lepore says that the meaning of socialism in America has always been ambiguous. And the Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant shares his deep love of Barbra Streisand. (article)
A photograph, Cole reminds us, captures the thinnest sliver of time. Any photograph of a man in blackface—or any racist image—implies that “there’s a lot more where that came from.” (article)
The historian walks us through the shift in America’s leftist politics, and the photographer contemplates the persistence of blackface in American culture. (episode)
The historian Jill Lepore says we should not be surprised that socialism is once again popular—because we’re not even sure what it means.
A photograph, Cole reminds us, captures the thinnest sliver of time. Any photograph of a man in blackface—or any racist image—implies that “there’s a lot more where that came from.”
The writer Valeria Luiselli volunteered as a court translator for child migrants. Her latest novel, “Lost Children Archive,” borrows from the stories she helped tell.
When the actor Richard E. Grant was fourteen, he wrote a letter to Barbra Streisand. Forty-seven years later, she answered.
For a conflict mediator in a dangerous Chicago neighborhood, violence prevention is a job that never ends. And when it fails, somebody gets shot. (article)
Representative Lucy McBath and others on whether gun reform is possible—and if so, how. (article)
Representative Lucy McBath and others on whether gun reform is possible—and if so, how. (episode)
McBath won the Georgia congressional seat once held by Newt Gingrich by running on a platform of gun reform. She’s treading lightly.
A Navy veteran who was deployed in Afghanistan talks about the appeal of the firearm, and how the cavalier attitude of some civilian gun enthusiasts angers him.
Lawmakers have tried to get firearms away from intimate-partner abusers. A researcher analyzed what was achieved, and what went wrong.
For a conflict mediator in a dangerous Chicago neighborhood, violence prevention is a job that never ends. And when it fails, somebody gets shot.
The writer talks about the new trilogy he describes as “an African ‘Game of Thrones.’ ” And a C.E.O. describes how activist investors are killing American business. (article)
The Mueller report is said to be coming soon. Can Trump survive it? (article)