Episode 21: Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the Presidential Race, and Malcolm Gladwell on School Shootings
This week: Julia Louis-Dreyfus says that, in light of the 2016 Presidential race, “Veep” is now like a “sombre” documentary; Malcolm Gladwell looks at the subculture behind post-Columbine school shoot...
11 Mar 201655min
Episode 20: G.P.S. for Drunks, and Coming Home to Serbia
This week: A Manhattan bartender, prizefighter, and onetime bank robber returns to his ancestral mansion in Serbia; Michael Friedman brings us a new song written from the campaign trail; and a devasta...
4 Mar 201655min
Episode 19: Father Pfleger, Larry David, and the History of Autism
This week, Father Michael Pfleger, a white priest on Chicago’s South Side, holds a funeral for a young man who threatened his life; Larry David applies his passive-aggression to Missed Connections lis...
26 Feb 201655min
Episode 18: Maria Bamford, and Fighting for Baltimore
This week, two stories out of Baltimore: “The Wire” creator David Simon drives the city with Jelani Cobb, and David Remnick talks to the thirty-year-old mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson. Also, Maria B...
19 Feb 201655min
Episode 17: Cuba Gooding, Jr., on O. J. Simpson, and Embracing Insomnia
This week, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Jeffrey Toobin revisit the O.J. Simpson trial, a songwriter hits the campaign trail, and the lifelong night owl Patricia Marx tries some gizmos to help her sleep. New...
12 Feb 201655min
Episode 16: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda Shaughnessy
The Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour”) talks to David Remnick about her first solo museum exhibition, “Astro Noise,” which channels her investigations of government surveillance...
5 Feb 201655min
Episode 15: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Maron, and the Broads of 'Broad City'
This week, stars of the stage, screen, and earbuds. Marc Maron tells Kelefa Sanneh why talking into a mic saved his life. The magazine’s TV critic, Emily Nussbaum, speaks with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana ...
29 Jan 201655min
Episode 14: The Koch Brothers, the Ninth Planet, and an Undefeated Female Boxer
In this episode, three epic battles: Jane Mayer recounts her experience investigating—and being investigated by—Koch Industries; Junot Díaz discusses his fraught relationship with his native Dominican...
22 Jan 201655min
