Dexter Filkins on the Fall of Afghanistan
Dexter Filkins covered the American invasion of Afghanistan when he was a reporter for the New York Times, and has continued to report on conflicts in the region for The New Yorker. Filkins’s best-sel...
20 Elo 202117min
Liesl Tommy, Director of “Respect”
Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul, the greatest voice of her generation, an eighteen-time Grammy Award winner whose career spanned five decades. She was also a famously private person, which makes...
13 Elo 202114min
Amanda Petrusich Talks with the Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman
Amanda Petrusich describes herself as a “die-hard fan” of folk music, but not when it feels precious or sentimental. That’s why she loves the Weather Station, whose songs, she thinks, “could take a pu...
10 Elo 202123min
Atul Gawande on the COVID-19 Resurgence
For a few brief moments this summer, in places where the vaccination rate was high, we could imagine life after COVID-19: restaurants and theatres were filling up, gatherings of all kinds were taking ...
6 Elo 202125min
Jack Antonoff on Growing up Jersey
Jack Antonoff has had a busy pandemic. Sought out by Taylor Swift as a producer, he ultimately made two records for her—one of which, “Folklore,” won the Grammy for Album of the Year. He also worked o...
3 Elo 202118min
John Kerry on the Battle Against Climate Change
With the world overheating, glaciers melting, and landscapes in flames, it’s difficult to think of a harder or more important job than John Kerry’s. The former senator and Secretary of State is now th...
30 Heinä 202132min
An Iranian Plot Grew in Brooklyn, and the Revelations about Pegasus
The indictment reads like a not-so-great spy novel: the operatives would kidnap the dissident from her home in Brooklyn, deliver her to the waterfront to meet a speedboat, bring her by sea to Venezuel...
27 Heinä 202126min
Eric Adams Talks with David Remnick
The New York City mayoral primary, which culminated in a vote held in June, was full of surprises, including the introduction of ranked-choice voting to a confused electorate, and the presence of Andr...
23 Heinä 202123min
