After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names
For years, the staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman has reported on the case of Eric Smokes and David Warren. When they were teen-agers in Brooklyn, in 1987, Smokes and Warren were convicted of second-degr...
11 Jun 202428min
Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
When Raphael Warnock was elected to the Senate from Georgia in the 2020 election, he made history a couple of times over. He became the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the Deep South. ...
7 Jun 202422min
The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
In “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports,” the journalist Michael Waters tells the story of Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s spor...
4 Jun 202419min
Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”
When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis described her as the kind of talent who comes along only “once in a generation or two.” Salvant’s work is ro...
31 Mai 202431min
Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen
In their breakout comedy series, “Broad City,” Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson played raucous and raunchy best friends who were the glue in each other’s lives. In “Babes,” the new movie co-written by G...
28 Mai 202423min
Love Is Blind, and Allegedly Toxic
On the reality-TV dating show “Love Is Blind,” the most watched original series in Netflix history, contestants are alone in windowless, octagonal pods with no access to their phones or the Internet....
24 Mai 202427min
Miranda July’s New Novel Takes on Marriage, Desire, and Perimenopause
Some time in her forties, something shifted in Miranda July. She started having “this new, grim feeling about the future, which was weird, because I’m, like, a very excited, hopeful person,” she tells...
21 Mai 202420min
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Isn’t Going Away
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has never held elected office but is related to many people who have, is emerging as a potential threat to Democrats and Republicans in the 2024 Presidential race. “There’s...
17 Mai 202429min
