Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy
Representative Ro Khanna of California is in the Democrats’ Congressional Progressive Caucus. And although his district is in the heart of Silicon Valley—and he once worked as a lawyer for tech compan...
10 Jan 202532min
Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme
Sara Bareilles broke out as a pop-music star in the late two-thousands. But she’s gone on to have a very different kind of career, writing music for Broadway and eventually performing as an actor on s...
7 Jan 202518min
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets
Rachel Aviv reports on the terrible conundrum of Alice Munro for The New Yorker. Munro was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and perhaps the most acclaimed writer of short stories of our time,...
3 Jan 202531min
Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director
Introducing Julianne Moore at the New Yorker Festival, in October, the staff writer Michael Schulman recited “only a partial list” of the directors Moore has worked with, including Robert Altman, Loui...
31 Dec 202424min
The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten
With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. An essential element of her success is her confiding, authentic warmth—her encouragement for even the mos...
27 Dec 202427min
Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American hostages, who had been seized when revolutionaries stormed the embassy. No one from the U.S. had bee...
24 Dec 202429min
Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”
Willem Dafoe has one of the most distinctive faces and most distinctive voices in movies, deployed to great effect in blockbuster genre movies as well as smaller indie darlings; he’s played everyone f...
20 Dec 202420min
From the Archive: James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar
James Taylor’s songs are so familiar that they seem to have always existed. Onstage at the New Yorker Festival, in 2010, Taylor peeled back some of his influences—the Beatles, Bach, show tunes, and An...
18 Dec 202432min
