Josephine Decker’s “Shirley”
The film critic Richard Brody regards Josephine Decker as one of the best directors of her generation, and picked her 2018 film “Madeline’s Madeline” as his favorite of the year. Decker, he says, rein...
9 Jun 202011min
Can Police Violence Be Curbed?
“To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep,” James Baldwin wrote, in 1978. This week, the staff writer Jelani Cobb speaks with a Minneapolis activist who’s been...
5 Jun 202037min
Mark Cuban Wants to Save Capitalism from Itself
Mark Cuban identifies as a capitalist, but the billionaire investor, “Shark Tank” star, and Dallas Mavericks owner has been advocating for changes that point to a different kind of politics. Cuban tel...
2 Jun 202029min
Life After Lockdown, and the Politics of Blaming China
Since January, Peter Hessler has reported from China under quarantine. Now, as restrictions lift, he tells David Remnick about his return to normal life; recently, he even went to a dance club. But, a...
29 Mai 202021min
Reading “The Plague” During a Plague, and Memorial Day by the Pool
When schools were closed owing to the coronavirus outbreak, the English teacher Petria May did the most natural thing she could think of: she assigned her tenth-grade class to read Albert Camus’s nove...
25 Mai 202021min
Larissa MacFarquhar on a Potentially Deadly Experiment, and Jelani Cobb on the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
Abie Roehrig, a twenty-year-old undergraduate, has put his name on a list of volunteers for a human-challenge trial to test the efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine. A human-challenge trial for a vaccine wo...
22 Mai 202028min
Perfume Genius Talks with Jia Tolentino, and Anthony Lane Examines Outbreaks in the Movies
The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino has been following the artist Mike Hadreas, who records as Perfume Genius, since his first album; he has just released his fifth, “Set My Heart on Fire Immediately.” He ...
19 Mai 202023min
Jill Lepore on How a Pandemic Ends
Jill Lepore discusses the “stay at home” campaigns that ran on radio stations during the polio years, devised to keep children indoors; she is especially fond of a program that featured a young Hubert...
15 Mai 202027min
