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The New Yorker’s television critic explains how a wide range of television shows—including comedies and animations—are bringing the #MeToo movement into their plotlines. (article)
The director discusses her new film about five youths convicted and exonerated of an infamous crime; and critic Emily Nussbaum, explains a “deluge” of #MeToo plots on television. (episode)
The New Yorker’s television critic explains how a wide range of television shows—including comedies and animations—are bringing the #MeToo movement into their plotlines.
In a series of works about how the American justice system deals with black citizens, the filmmaker’s latest portrays the teens wrongly convicted of a terrible and notorious assault.
The late poet was unusually direct in her appreciation of nature and her spirituality, traits that made her one of the most beloved poets of our time.
Three prominent scholars discuss how reparations would work, and address a controversy over who would be eligible. (article)
The debate on making reparations for slavery is as old as the Republic. Will the nation finally face up to its history? (episode)
The writer set out to make America stop laughing at jokes about reparations. Five years later, Presidential candidates are taking his research very seriously.
Sekou Sundiata’s poem, read for us by Carl Hancock Rux, addresses the debts that white culture and society owe to African-Americans.
After decades on the fringes, the debate around reparations has moved into the political mainstream. With eight Presidential candidates interested, is there a future for reparations?
In 1838, Georgetown administrators sold nearly 300 enslaved people to sugarcane plantations to help fund the college. In 2019, students voted to pay reparations to their descendants.
Three prominent scholars discuss how reparations would work, and address a controversy over who would be eligible.
Lucinda Williams on God, Flannery O’Connor, and her long and twisting path through the music industry. (article)
Adam Gopnik talks with James Taylor and tries not to go all “Chris Farley Show”: “Remember when you wrote ‘Fire and Rain’? That was great.” (article)
James Taylor gives Adam Gopnik a quick guitar lesson, and Lucinda Williams bares her soul to Ariel Levy. (episode)
Adam Gopnik talks with James Taylor and tries not to go all “Chris Farley Show”: “Remember when you wrote ‘Fire and Rain’? That was great.”
Lucinda Williams on God, Flannery O’Connor, and her long and twisting path through the music industry.
A writer and performer reflects, in a Tony-nominated Broadway hit, on the distortions and falsehoods she peddled as a teen-age debate champion. Plus, Carrie Battan on SoundCloud rap. (article)
Two leading environmental writers wonder if the new sense of urgency around climate change is coming too late. And writer Karen Russell finds enchantment in her new home in Oregon. (article)
Two leading environmental writers wonder if the sense of urgency is coming too late. Plus Heidi Schreck on the Constitution, and Karen Russell’s move from Florida to Oregon. (episode)
Two leading environmental writers wonder if a new sense of urgency around climate change is coming too late.
A writer and performer reflects, in a Tony-nominated Broadway hit, on the distortions and falsehoods that she herself peddled as as a teen-age debate champion.
The Florida writer finds a new sense of enchantment in her new home, on the Oregon coast, where the big trees are like characters out of Jim Henson.
Once a marginal, willfully weird genre for amateurs, SoundCloud rap has lately created some of the biggest hits in hip-hop.