Jill Lepore on Parents’ Rights and the Culture War
A wave of book bannings sweeping the country, along with conservative fury over titles like “Antiracist Baby,” seems like a backlash against the heightened racial consciousness of the post-George Floy...
25 Mar 202218min
Returning to the Office . . . While Black
“Coming back to work is partially about surveillance and micromanagement,” Keisha, a podcasting executive, says. “Everybody feels it, but people of color feel it in a different way.” For workers who h...
22 Mar 202219min
Radio Ukraine
Kraina FM is a radio station that broadcasts in Kyiv and more than twenty other cities, playing Ukrainian-language rock and pop. When Russia invaded Ukraine, it took on the mantle of “the station of n...
18 Mar 202230min
Jane Campion on “The Power of the Dog”
Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” opens like a classic Western: cattle are herded across the sweeping plains of Montana, with imposing mountains in the distance. But the plot of the film, based on...
15 Mar 202230min
Stephen Kotkin: Don’t Blame the West for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
It’s impossible to understand the destruction and death that Vladimir Putin is unleashing in Ukraine without understanding his most basic conviction: that the breakup of the Soviet empire was a catast...
11 Mar 202219min
Pauline Kael on “The Godfather”
As The New Yorker’s film critic from 1968 to around 1991, the influential Pauline Kael gave voice to her visceral reactions: she wrote as a moviegoer, not a cineaste. Fifty years ago, in the March 10,...
8 Mar 20227min
Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa on the Escalation of Violence in Ukraine
Joshua Yaffa is a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker, but he has been travelling throughout the war zone in Ukraine for weeks, reporting on the Russian invasion. Masha Gessen, who has lived in an...
4 Mar 202241min
Sheryl Lee Ralph on Confronting Hollywood
Sheryl Lee Ralph has been a staple of Black entertainment for decades. She played Deena Jones in the original Broadway production of “Dreamgirls,” and was in “Sister Act 2” alongside Lauryn Hill and W...
1 Mar 202226min
