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In this episode, the author Annie Dillard looks back, a Florida prison worker’s terrifying dilemma, and the former lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons has a new pop sound. (episode)
Annie Dillard, best known for her 1974 naturalist classic “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” discusses a new collection of essays entitled “Abundance.”
Anohni, the former lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, is seeking a new sound, and a new audience.
Harriet Krzykowski worked at a Florida prison where mentally ill inmates were tortured and, on at least one occasion, killed.
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner William Finnegan teaches David Remnick to surf.
David Remnick talks with a rumored Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, and the activist Ai-jen Poo envisions a happier alternative to nursing homes. (episode)
Debra Monk performs Susanna Wolff's Shouts & Murmurs piece "Dearly Beloved."
Julián Castro, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, talks gentrification and housing inequality with David Remnick.
Townsend Harris High School, a magnet school in Queens, mounts a mock Presidential election.
A woman with multiple sclerosis and her home health aide form an unlikely bond.
The activist and MacArthur Fellow Ai-jen Poo talks about changing the way we approach the part of life nobody wants to talk about: the end.
On this week’s show, David Remnick talks with a war-crimes expert about how to run a fair tribunal, and Patricia Marx goes foraging in Central Park. (episode)
Todd Niesle is away skiing with his brother, so turn on your audio guide and take this tour of his apartment. Stephanie Janssen performs Patricia Marx’s piece “Audio Tour.”
Removing plants from Central Park is illegal. But when Manhattan salad bars are charging up to $8.99 a pound, what’s a thrifty New Yorker to do?
At an undisclosed location in Western Europe, a group called the CIJA is gathering evidence of war crimes perpetrated by the Syrian government.
A professor of criminal law joins David Remnick to explain why it's unlikely that Bashar al-Assad will be brought to the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
Kathryn Schulz, a New Yorker staff writer, recommends a country music album, a poet, and a movie about magicians.
Two giants of soul music, and the ballad of a Trump supporter. (episode)
What happens when your partner has verbal amnesia and a major hoarding problem.
One South Carolina voter is “thrilled” by the candidate who “upset the apple cart.” This is his song.
The Queen of Soul grew up with music all around her.
The author of a new biography discusses Brown’s unparalleled originality, chaotic personal life, and relationship with Al Sharpton.
David Haglund talks to Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, who serve as co-producers on Jill Soloway’s hit series.
A New Yorker writer discusses, an interactive Hieronymus Bosch Web site, Paris’s underbelly, and a movie about identical twins.
Larry David and Amy Poehler on comedy as a way of life, and Randy Newman on the dying art of writing lyrics. (episode)
The comedian says that his alter ego on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” was a sociopath, and that he wishes he could be more like him.
What does Amy Poehler miss from the days before she was famous? Nada.
Songwriters should have as much latitude as short-story writers, the singer says.