Florence Welch Talks About Life on the Road
Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul. Florence Welch, the group’s singer and main songwriter, is by turns introspective and theatrical, poe...
9 Jul 202420min
Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker”
Fifty years ago, in July, 1974, The New Yorker began publishing a lengthy excerpt of Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker.” When the book appeared, it ran more than twelve hundred pages and won a Pulitzer ...
5 Jul 202430min
The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions
At the beginning of 2021, it seemed like America might be turning a new page; instead, the election of 2024 feels like a strange dream that we can’t wake up from. Recently, David Remnick asked listene...
2 Jul 202431min
John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel
Many Democrats saw John Fetterman as a progressive beacon: a Rust Belt Bernie Sanders who – with his shaved head, his hoodie, and the zip code of Braddock, Pennsylvania – could rally working-class whi...
28 Jun 202419min
Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV
Reality television has generally got a bad rap, but Emily Nussbaum—who received a Pulitzer Prize, in 2016, for her work as The New Yorker’s TV critic—sees that the genre has its own history and craft....
25 Jun 202416min
Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures
Kevin Costner has been a leading man for more than forty years and has starred in all different genres of movies, but a constant in his filmography is the Western. One of his first big roles was in “S...
21 Jun 202432min
Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies
Paul Scheer is a noted actor and comedian, and the author of the new memoir “Joyful Recollections of Trauma.” Off the screen, his true obsession is bad movies—even terrible movies. With his wife, the ...
18 Jun 202414min
Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?
On July 4th—while the U.S. celebrates its break from Britain—voters in the United Kingdom will go to the polls and, according to all predictions, oust the current government. The Conservative Party ha...
14 Jun 202436min
