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Jon Ronson’s nonfiction has often seemed too strange to be true; in the screenplay for “Okja,” he goes all in for surreal fiction. Plus, Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. (article)
Inside Donald Trump’s gilded Palm Beach pleasure palace; and the journalist Jon Ronson tries his hand at fiction, in “Okja.” (episode)
Whether it’s this weather or that weather, we’ll weather it together.
A giant (and apparently very tasty) super-pig is kidnapped by Tilda Swinton, in a new film co-written by Jon Ronson.
Taking the political temperature of Palm Beach at a party inside the President’s gilded palace.
The Poet Laureate says that “green space has fed the inner silence that I think most writers are seeking.”
Ai Weiwei reflects on censorship and the refugee crisis, a congressman asks us to reconsider trade with China, and Chinese students explain the country’s Ivanka Trump fever. (episode)
The journalist Zhang Yuanan explains how the Chinese public sees the Trump Administration.
Congressman Rick Larsen has been working for years on trade issues involving China. After the collapse of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he laments the lost business opportunities.
Once celebrated by the government, Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous artist. Now he is persona non grata in his country, but won’t stop speaking out.
A Chinese science-fiction fable about alien contact resonates across cultures.
Women in China are torn between modern success and Confucian ideals. Many there wonder, How does Ivanka Trump pull it off so well?
In this episode, Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the intimate and global implications of genetic science, and we look for the Orson Wells of VR. (episode)
Welcome to the thoughtsphere. What’s a thoughtsphere?
The physician and Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the intimate and global implications of genetic science.
Virtual reality used to be the technology of the future. Now it’s here. How will artists use the young medium to tell stories?
Three weird things you need to check out: a random-film-clip generator, an Internet graveyard, and “the Turkish ‘Star Wars.’”
The sound of a guy getting beaten with a bat in “Goodfellas” was engineered by an ex-magician with a hideout in Jersey.
Two mothers meet on the playground, and things get weird.
James Ivory talks about E. M. Forster’s “Maurice,” a gay love story with a happy ending. Plus, Jon Lee Anderson talks about the rise and fall of Manuel Noriega. (episode)
“Those balcony seats are probably pretty plush. I guess if you’re about to be assassinated, you deserve to be comfortable.” A few random thoughts from the cheap seats.
An expert on North Korea thinks that the Trump Administration’s response to Pyongyang’s aggression is “not yet coherent.”
The veteran reporter Jon Lee Anderson had a rare prison interview with Noriega, not long before the deposed dictator’s death.
E. M. Forster’s “Maurice” was something entirely new: a gay love story with a happy ending. The Merchant Ivory film adaptation, from 1987, has just been re-released.
After a poet lost her home, she started a new life as a ballroom dancer.
Kristen Wiig plays a bride whose idea for her wedding hair is out of control. And the Reverend William Barber tells David Remnick that politics needs to get religion again. (episode)
William J. Barber II, a pastor and political activist, wants our politics to get religion again. But conservative Christians, he thinks, are deeply confused about Christ’s teachings.
Psychiatry’s professional code forbids the diagnosis of public figures (like Presidents) from afar. Some doctors would like to scrap that rule.
Kristen Wiig plays a bride with a very, very specific idea of how she wants her hair to look.
In “Mother Land,” the travel writer Paul Theroux describes a small nation under despotic rule: his family.
A David Bowie-like song by the indie rock group Shearwater is a recent favorite of The New Yorker’s Emily Greenhouse.