Michael R. Jackson on “A Strange Loop,” His Black, Queer Coming-of-Age Musical
Michael R. Jackson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “A Strange Loop” features a Black queer writer named Usher, who works as an usher, struggling to write a musical about a Black queer writer...
15 Kesä 202217min
The Adrenaline Rush of Racing Drones
Ian Frazier, who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where three roommates build, fly, and race drones. Jordan Te...
14 Kesä 202216min
Regina Spektor on Her New Album, “Home, Before and After”
Twenty years ago, Regina Spektor was yet another aspiring musician in New York, lugging around a backpack full of self-produced CDs, and playing at little clubs in the East Village—anywhere that had a...
10 Kesä 202243min
Masha Gessen on the Quiet in Kyiv
Masha Gessen is reporting for The New Yorker on the war in Ukraine, which is now in its fourth month. They checked in with David Remnick from Kyiv, which seems almost normal, with “hipsters in cafés” ...
7 Kesä 202220min
“The Book of Queer,” and “Bob’s Burgers” Hits the Big Screen
While working on his Ph.D., the historian Eric Cervini (whose book “The Deviant’s War” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) noticed the lack of popular histories on L.G.B.T.Q. issues. Researchers we...
3 Kesä 202229min
Remembering Roger Angell, and Fishing with Karen Chee
Roger Angell, who died last week, at the age of 101, was inducted in 2014 into the Baseball Hall of Fame in recognition of his extraordinary accomplishment as a baseball writer. But in a career at The...
31 Touko 202223min
What Makes a Mass Shooter?
In America, unthinkable violence has become routine. In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, David Remnick speaks with the researchers Jillian Peterson and James Densley, whose book “Th...
27 Touko 202226min
Florence and the Machine, Live at The New Yorker Festival
Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul; the band’s most recent record, “Dance Fever,” just came out. Florence Welch, the group’s singer and m...
24 Touko 202221min
