What Is Happening in the Internment Camps in Xinjiang
In a special episode on the crisis in Xinjiang region of China, the staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian investigates Xi Jinping’s government’s severe repression of Muslim minorities, principally Uyghurs...
16 Apr 202149min
Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road
Rickie Lee Jones emerged into the pop world fully formed; her début album was nominated for five Grammys, in 1980, and she won for Best New Artist. One of the songs on that record was “The Last Chance...
13 Apr 202122min
The Brody Awards, and Louis Menand on “The Free World”
Oscars, schmoscars! Richard Brody is a critic of wide tastes and eccentric enthusiasms. His list of the best films of the year rarely lines up with the Academy’s. Each year, he joins David Remnick and...
9 Apr 202127min
David Fincher on “Mank,” and Daniel Alarcón’s Favorite Children’s Books
David Fincher made his name in Hollywood as the director of movies that pushed people’s buttons—dark thrillers like “Fight Club,” “The Game,” “Seven,” and “Gone Girl”—but his new film belongs to one o...
6 Apr 202124min
Race and Taxes, and Jane Mayer on How to Kill a Bill
The investigative reporter Jane Mayer recently received a recording of a meeting attended by conservative power brokers including Grover Norquist, representatives of PACs funded by Charles Koch, and a...
2 Apr 202125min
The Complex Story of Being Trans in Africa, and Derek DelGaudio on Deception
Our producer talks with the South African scholar Dr. B Camminga, whose essay “Disregard and Danger” deconstructs the viewpoints of so-called TERFs—trans-exclusionary radical feminists—through an Afri...
30 Mar 202132min
Will the Most Important Voting-Rights Bill Since 1965 Die in the Senate?
No sooner had Joe Biden won the Presidential election than Republican state legislatures began introducing measures to make voting more difficult in any number of ways, most of which will suppress Dem...
26 Mar 202117min
Remembering a City at the Peak of Crisis
April 15, 2020, was near the apex of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, which was then its epicenter. On that day, a crew of New Yorker writers talked with people all over the city, in every circ...
19 Mar 202149min
