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The singer talks with the music critic Amanda Petrusich about her most recent studio album, the first after a six-year hiatus. (article)
The singer talks to the music critic Amanda Petrusich about her most recent album, and the writer Alex Kotlowitz makes an annual pilgrimage to the northern woods of Minnesota. (episode)
The singer talks with the music critic Amanda Petrusich about her most recent studio album, the first after a six-year hiatus.
A noted chronicler of urban Chicago, Alex Kotlowitz has been returning to the lakes and woods of northern Minnesota summer after summer for some forty years. What keeps drawing him back?
The novelist talks with David Remnick about bringing back the small-time criminal Ray Carney for a sequel to “Harlem Shuffle.” (article)
David Remnick talks with Kai Bird, whose biography was the foundation for the new film “Oppenheimer.” Plus, Colson Whitehead; and Greta Gerwig on finding herself as a director. (episode)
Bird’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography was the foundation for Christopher Nolan’s movie “Oppenheimer,” an epic about the father of the atomic bomb.
The novelist talks with David Remnick about bringing back the small-time criminal Ray Carney for a sequel to “Harlem Shuffle.”
Once criticized as a “bossy girl,” Gerwig tamped down her instinct to direct. She told David Remnick in 2019 how she finally gave herself permission to be a filmmaker.
David Remnick talks with Kai Bird, a screenwriter of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” and with Gerwig on embracing her instinct to direct. (article)
The journalist talks about his chronicle of the crack-cocaine epidemic, and how that epidemic came to an end. (article)
The former North Carolina governor Pat McCrory and staff writer Sue Halpern on the political party No Labels, which could have a big impact on the Presidential race. Plus, therapy on TV. (article)
No Labels is obscure but well funded. Could it have an outsized impact on the election? Plus, the journalist Donovan Ramsey on his chronicle of the crack-cocaine epidemic. (episode)
The former North Carolina governor Pat McCrory and the staff writer Sue Halpern on the would-be political party No Labels, which could have an outsized impact on the Presidential race.
The journalist talks about his chronicle of the crack-cocaine epidemic, and how that epidemic came to an end.
Three critics—Doreen St. Félix, Alexandra Schwartz, and Inkoo Kang—discuss why so many scripted and reality shows use psychotherapy as a central plotline.
A church bought, and forgave, more than four million dollars in medical debt using small donations collected from the congregation. The staff writer Sheelah Kolhatkar explains how. (article)
The anti-vaccine activist and litigator with a famous name and a long history of addiction has decided to run for President. David Remnick probes what his candidacy is all about. (episode)
The anti-vaccine activist and litigator with a famous name and a long history of addiction has decided to run for President. David Remnick probes what his candidacy is all about.
A church bought, and forgave, more than four million dollars in medical debt using small donations collected from the congregation. The staff writer Sheelah Kolhatkar explains how.