Carly Rae Jepsen Talks with Amanda Petrusich
“I can remember, even four months after [“Call Me Maybe” ’s] release, being claimed in the press as a one-hit wonder,” Carly Rae Jepsen says. “Isn’t it too soon to decide that? Give me a chance!” The ...
16 Jul 201914min
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the 2020 Presidential Race and Why We Should Break up Homeland Security
It’s hard to recall a newly elected freshman representative to Congress who has made a bigger impact than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her primary victory for New York’s Fourteenth District seat—as a you...
9 Jul 201957min
Aaron Sorkin Rewrites “To Kill a Mockingbird”
As he set about adapting “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the stage, Aaron Sorkin found himself troubled by its protagonist, the small-town lawyer Atticus Finch. Harper Lee’s Finch, he thought, is tolerant...
9 Jul 201927min
As Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith Hit the Road
Tracy K. Smith was named Poet Laureate, in 2017, right after the most divisive election of our time. She could have spent her two-year appointment writing and enjoying a nice office in the Library of ...
5 Jul 201919min
Valeria Luiselli on Reënacting the Border
Valeria Luiselli first travelled to the U.S.–Mexico border in 2014, when the current immigration crisis began to heat up. Under the Trump Presidency, the border has become the dead center of American ...
2 Jul 201931min
Emily Nussbaum Likes to Watch
For decades, critical praise for a TV show was that it was “not like TV,” but more like a novel or a movie. That ingrained hierarchy always bugged Emily Nussbaum, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize...
28 Jun 201917min
The Trump Administration’s Plan to Deport Victims of Human Trafficking
The New Yorker contributor Jenna Krajeski recently met with a woman who calls herself Esperanza. In her home country, Esperanza was coerced and threatened into prostitution, and later was trafficked i...
25 Jun 201925min
Dexter Filkins on the Dangerous Escalations between the U.S. and Iran
After a U.S. drone was allegedly shot down by Iran last week, relations between Tehran and Washington are again approaching a low point; on Thursday, President Trump ordered and then called off an air...
21 Jun 201920min
