Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album, “Horses”
Patti Smith’s album “Horses” came out fifty years ago, on November 10, 1975, launching her to stardom almost overnight. An anniversary reissue came out this year, to rapturous reviews. Yet being a roc...
11 Marras 202540min
What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker
Few Democratic officials have been more outspoken in opposition to the Trump Administration than J. B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. He seems almost to relish antagonizing Trump, who has suggest...
7 Marras 202527min
From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives”
The New Yorker contributing writer Heidi Blake has been investigating a new story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast In the Dark. This season is about one of the most notorious crimes in modern Br...
4 Marras 202544min
Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump
Jon Stewart has been a leading figure in political comedy since before the turn of the millennium. But compared to his early years on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”—when Stewart was merciless in hi...
31 Loka 202546min
It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse
“Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment,” the columnist Kyle Chayk...
28 Loka 202521min
Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control
Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “White Teeth,” twenty-five years ago, she has been a bold and original voice in literature. But those who aren’t familiar with Smith’s work outside of fict...
24 Loka 202528min
Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today, and yet moviegoers may admire him for very different things. There are early comedies such as “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused”; ...
21 Loka 202521min
How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target
The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its will on higher education came as a shock to many, not least university presidents and faculties from Harvard to U...
17 Loka 202529min
