A Trip to the Boundary Waters
Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of the city of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty and violence. His books set in Chicago include “An American Summer,” “There Are No Children Here,” ...
9 Aug 202224min
Jane Mayer on Ohio’s Lurch to the Right
Last month, the story of a 10-year-old rape victim captured national headlines. The young girl was forced to travel out of state because of Ohio’s draconian abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or...
6 Aug 202225min
Notes from a Warming World
Much of the globe has seen record-breaking temperatures in recent heat waves that seem increasingly routine. Dhruv Khullar, a contributor and a practicing physician, looks at the effects of extreme he...
2 Aug 202232min
Jamie Raskin on the Facts of January 6th, and the Danger Ahead
Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, serves on Congress’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol. He spoke with David Remnick about the effort to demonstrate Donald ...
29 Jul 202217min
Jason Isbell on Songwriting While Sober
Jason Isbell got into the music business early; he had a publishing deal when he was twenty-one. But he really came into his own as a songwriter around ten years ago, as he was getting sober from year...
26 Jul 202236min
New Mexico Is a “Safe Haven” for Abortion Between Texas and Arizona
In New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared the state a “reproductive safe haven” between Arizona to the west, and Texas to the east. Already, she says, New Mexico’s few abortion clini...
22 Jul 202213min
The Nerdwriter Conquers the Internet, Plus Kelefa Sanneh on Country Radio
Evan Puschak, known on YouTube as the Nerdwriter, posts videos dissecting topics from Shakespeare and Tarkovsky to Superman; from Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump. The video...
19 Jul 202227min
The Writer Dmitry Bykov on Putin’s Russia, the Land of the “Most Free Slaves”
Until very recently, Dmitry Bykov was a huge presence on the Russian literary scene. He is a novelist, a poet, a biographer, and a critic. He was a frequent presence on Echo of Moscow, the liberal rad...
15 Jul 202222min
