Remembering September 11th, and the Future of the Taliban
Twenty years after the events of September 11th, the writer Edwidge Danticat reads from her essay “Flight,” about the way that tragedies are memorialized by those who survive them. And the New Yorker ...
10 Sep 202120min
The Child Tax Credit: One Small Step Toward Universal Basic Income?
David Remnick talks with Senator Michael Bennet, of Colorado, who campaigned for the Presidency in 2020 advocating for the child tax credit, which is now a centerpiece of the Democratic agenda. Bennet...
7 Sep 202129min
Riz Ahmed on “Mogul Mowgli”
As a rapper, Riz Ahmed has released critically acclaimed albums, and he was featured on the chart-topping “Hamilton Mixtape.” At the same time, he was becoming a leading man in the movies, with roles ...
3 Sep 202119min
The Joy of Beach Reads
Our guest host, Vinson Cunningham, looks at the joys of the beach read, hitting Brighton Beach on a hot, muggy day to peer over readers’ shoulders. He relates his own fortuitous encounter with Lawrenc...
27 Aug 202131min
Kim Stanley Robinson on “Utopian” Science Fiction
One of the premier writers of thinky sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson opened his book “The Ministry for the Future” with an all too plausible scenario: a lethal heat wave descends on India, with vast, hor...
27 Aug 202118min
Home Cooking with Jacques Pepin and Klancy Miller
For generations of cooks, Jacques Pépin has been the master. Early in his career he cooked for eminences like Charles DeGaulle, and was offered a job at the White House. But after a serious car accide...
24 Aug 202132min
Dexter Filkins on the Fall of Afghanistan
Dexter Filkins covered the American invasion of Afghanistan when he was a reporter for the New York Times, and has continued to report on conflicts in the region for The New Yorker. Filkins’s best-sel...
20 Aug 202117min
Liesl Tommy, Director of “Respect”
Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul, the greatest voice of her generation, an eighteen-time Grammy Award winner whose career spanned five decades. She was also a famously private person, which makes...
13 Aug 202114min
