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The Libertarian Gary Johnson is an E.P.A.-supporting gun-rights advocate who appreciates a good edible, and he wants your vote for President. (article)
Larry David vents, and a Chicago priest delivers a sermon to gang members. (episode)
A white priest has dedicated his life to serving Chicago’s largest African-American parish.
These are missed connections you’ll be glad you missed.
A kingpin of modern comedy talks about his return to the stage and why his films aren’t “conservative.”
At the age of seventy-six, a defining figure in gay fiction talks about the changes in gay life he’s witnessed in the course of his lifetime.
David Remnick talks to the authors of a new book on the history of autism.
In this episode, a Nobel Prize-winning historian on the fall of the Soviet Union, David Remnick recalls the August Coup, and Clinton’s top policy adviser considers the problem of Putin. (episode)
Twenty-five years after the August Coup, David Remnick and Masha Lipman discuss life after the Soviet Union.
Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for her oral histories about life in the U.S.S.R.
Jake Sullivan, the top policy adviser to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, joins David Remnick in a discussion about Russian aggression in Europe and Russian hacking in the United States.
A dispatch from the construction site of President Trump’s wall.
Mike Sabath is just another suburban kid deferring his admission to Harvard to pursue dreams of pop stardom.
In this episode, Arthur Miller’s essay about the sweltering summers of Miller’s youth; two writers talk fish and fiction; and a novelist recalls her childhood in idyllic Hong Kong. (episode)
F. Murray Abraham reads Arthur Miller’s essay about the sweltering summers of New York City.
Janice Y. K. Lee, the author of “The Piano Teacher” and “The Expatriates,” discusses Hong Kong’s class politics.
Two Montana writers talk fish and fiction.
The comic-book writer Marjorie Liu talks about her series “Monstress” and challenging the status quo.
In this episode, two living legends—the civil-rights leader John Lewis and the singer-songwriter Paul Simon—reflect on how far they’ve come. (episode)
Paul Simon speaks with The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Paul Muldoon, about the craft of writing a song.
David Remnick speaks with Congressman John Lewis about the civil-rights movement and how to survive in Congress.