Jane Mayer, David Grann, and Patrick Radden Keefe on the Importance of a Good Villain.
During the 2023 New Yorker Festival, three legendary staff writers got together to discuss the craft of investigative journalism: digging for information like detectives, and then presenting it in a w...
16 Jul 202422min
Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong
The panic that gripped Democrats during and after President Biden’s performance in the June debate against Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. In January of last year, the Radio Hour produced an ...
12 Jul 202428min
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
