David Simon’s “The Deuce” Charts the Rise of Pornography
David Simon is sympathetic to the sex workers he depicts in “The Deuce,” which will return to HBO for its second season in September. He is even sympathetic to some of the pimps and mobsters who were ...
28 Elo 201839min
An N.Y.P.D. Sergeant Blows the Whistle on Quotas
Sergeant Edwin Raymond is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by a group of New York City police officers who have become famous as “the N.Y.P.D.-12.” They claim that, despite a 2010 statewide ban, ...
24 Elo 201817min
Three Actors Explain What It Means to be “Presidential”
During the lead-up to the 2016 election, three actors who have played fictional Presidents of the United States discussed what it means to be “Presidential,” in a panel moderated by Michael Schulman. ...
21 Elo 201826min
Seth Meyers Talks with Ariel Levy
Seth Meyers—a veteran of “Saturday Night Live” and the host of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers”—sat down at the 2017 New Yorker Festival to walk Ariel Levy through a career that seems charmed. As a...
17 Elo 201829min
David Remnick on Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin brought Barack Obama to tears when she performed “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” at the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Carole King in December 2015. When video from that ev...
14 Elo 20186min
Weeding with Parker Posey
Parker Posey has been a vivid presence in American film, especially indie film, for twenty-five years. She got her start in “Dazed and Confused,” and went on to appear in dozens of movies, including C...
14 Elo 201816min
Lee Child, “Moby-Dick,” and Other Summer Reads
We delve into the escapist joys of a great summer read. David Remnick talks with Lee Child, whose thrillers about Jack Reacher—twenty-three books and counting, with a hundred million copies in print—b...
10 Elo 201840min
William Finnegan Surfing, and Kristen Roupenian Among the Pilgrims
William Finnegan’s memoir, “Barbarian Days,” from 2015, holds the distinction of being the one book about surfing to win a Pulitzer Prize. On a Sunday morning, not long past dawn, he took David Remnic...
7 Elo 201826min
