Another Fiasco for American Soccer, and Praying for Tangier
The 2018 World Cup begins this week in Russia, and America is taking a powder. The men’s team failed to qualify for the tournament after a stunning upset loss to Trinidad and Tobago, which is consider...
9 Jun 201834min
Anthony Bourdain’s Interview with David Remnick
Anthony Bourdain—the chef turned author, food anthropologist, and television star—died this week, at sixty-one. Bourdain made his début in The New Yorker in 1999, with an essay called “Don’t Eat Befor...
8 Jun 201819min
Angélique Kidjo and David Byrne on “Remain in Light”
When a young Amanda Petrusich, now a staff writer who covers music, first heard Talking Heads’ “Remain in Light,” she felt “almost like it was being beamed in from outer space.” The record, released i...
5 Jun 201823min
Glenda Jackson Onstage, and Marco Rubio on “Modernizing” Conservatism
Glenda Jackson, who has played both Queen Elizabeth and King Lear, served as a humble member of Parliament for more than two decades in between those roles; she talks with David Remnick about performi...
1 Jun 201835min
Malcolm Gladwell on the Sociology of School Shooters
Malcolm Gladwell spoke with The New Yorker’s Dorothy Wickenden in 2015 about the social dynamics of school shootings. Studying the literature of sociology, Gladwell compares shootings to a riot, in wh...
29 Mai 201824min
Paul Schrader: Movies as Religion
Paul Schrader made an auspicious début as the screenwriter of “Taxi Driver” and the director of “Blue Collar” and “American Gigolo.” But as Hollywood turned away from serious drama, Schrader struggled...
25 Mai 201831min
The Breeders on Sexism, Drugs, and Rock and Roll
This year, the original members of the Breeders—indie-rock royalty—are back together, twenty-five years after “Last Splash,” an album that fans regard as a classic. Kim Deal, Kelly Deal, Josephine Wig...
22 Mai 201830min
Diplomacy on the Rocks in Iran and North Korea
Susan B. Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Washington, speaks with Wendy Sherman about the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known a...
18 Mai 201824min
