David Remnick Talks with Robert Caro about “Working”
Robert Caro is a historical biographer unlike anyone else writing today, with the Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and other honors to prove it. But to call his books biographies seems to miss t...
18 Jun 201930min
Will the Government Get Tough on Big Tech?
Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (which owns Google), and Facebook—known in the tech world as the Big Four—are among the largest and most profitable companies in the world, and they’ve been accustomed to the l...
14 Jun 201919min
From Stonewall to the Present, Fifty Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Rights
Masha Gessen co-hosts this episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour, guiding David Remnick through the fifty years of civil-rights gains for L.G.B.T.Q. people. From drag queens reading to children at the ...
7 Jun 201949min
Ava DuVernay on “When They See Us,” About the Boys Who Became the Central Park Five
Ava DuVernay doesn’t like using the term Central Park Five—a moniker created by the press in the aftermath of the notorious and brutal assault of a twenty-eight-year-old woman, Trisha Meili. “They’re ...
4 Jun 201928min
Emily Nussbaum on TV’s “Deluge” of #MeToo Plots
The #MeToo movement of recent years started in the entertainment industry, with revelations about moguls such as Harvey Weinstein and CBS’s Les Moonves, and, since 2017, television writers have been g...
31 Mai 201920min
Who Should Receive Reparations for Slavery and Discrimination?
The idea of reparations—real compensation made to the descendants of slaves or the victims of legalized discrimination—has gained traction since the publication, in 2014, of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s influen...
28 Mai 201928min
Is America Ready to Make Reparations?
Late in the Civil War, the Union general William T. Sherman confiscated four hundred thousand acres of land from Confederate planters and ordered it redistributed, in forty-acre lots, to formerly ensl...
24 Mai 201949min
Lucinda Williams Talks with Ariel Levy
Despite winning a Grammy for her song “Passionate Kisses,” which was performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lucinda Williams spent many years overlooked by the music industry: she was too country for roc...
21 Mai 201916min
