Chelsea Manning on Life After Prison
In 2010, the Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning, sent nearly seven hundred and fifty thousand classified military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks. The leak ...
20 Okt 201735min
My Mother’s Career at “Playboy,” and the Politics of N.F.L. Protest
The death last month of Hugh Hefner reopened a conversation about the “Playboy” founder and the world he created. Hefner said that his magazine’s pictures of naked or near-naked women were an empoweri...
17 Okt 201728min
St. Vincent’s Seduction
Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent, launched her career as a guitar virtuoso—a real shredder—in indie rock, playing alongside artists like Sufjan Stevens. As a bandleader, she’s moved away from the exp...
13 Okt 201726min
Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, Ukelele Superstars; Jennifer Egan on Cops and Robbers
Patricia Marx is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, and Roz Chast is a celebrated cartoonist. Chast’s book “Can’t We Please Talk About Something More Pleasant,” about dealing with her aging p...
10 Okt 201726min
The Trump Children Were Investigated for Fraud, But Avoided Indictment
The Trump SoHo was supposed to be a splash for the Trump Organization and for Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr., who were leading the project. Instead, they were stuck trying to market very small units to ...
6 Okt 201727min
Karl Ove Knausgaard on Near-Death Experiences, Raising Kids, Puberty, Brain Surgery, and Turtles
A crime reporter and a business writer try to figure out how the government can charge a bank a sixteen-billion-dollar fine for wrongdoing yet fail to prosecute any individual at that bank for a crime...
3 Okt 201726min
David Simon’s “The Deuce” Charts the Rise of Pornography
David Simon believes in the dignity of labor, “even when it’s undignified.” What “The Wire” (which he created) did for the drug trade in Baltimore, “The Deuce,” also on HBO, does for sex work and the ...
29 Sep 201731min
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Wins Again
Julia Louis-Dreyfus recently won her sixth consecutive Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy for the role of Selina Meyer, the hapless Vice-President turned President, in HBO’s “Veep.” The show has been o...
26 Sep 201732min
