Broadway’s Unusual Reopening, and Amanda Petrusich Picks Three
Broadway theatres are welcoming audiences to a new season, mounting original works and restaging shows that closed in March, 2020. In this unusual season, Broadway is featuring atypical works such as ...
5 Okt 202122min
Jonathan Franzen Talks with David Remnick About “Crossroads”
Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, “Crossroads,” is set in 1971, and the title is firmly on the nose: the Hildebrand family is at a crossroads itself, just as the America of that moment seemed poised to ...
1 Okt 202127min
Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?
Andreas Malm, a climate activist and senior lecturer at Lund University, in Sweden, studies the relationship between climate change and capitalism. With the United Nations climate meeting in Glasgow r...
28 Sep 202135min
Jelani Cobb on the Kerner Report, an Unheeded Warning about the Consequences of Racism
In 1967, in the wake of a violent uprising in Detroit, President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to investigate what had happened. This seemed futile: a...
24 Sep 202119min
Joaquin Castro: “Americans Don’t Know Who Latinos Are”
On Tuesday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a preliminary report on the long-standing underrepresentation of Latinos in the media. While most people consider Hollywood a relatively li...
21 Sep 202122min
Wes Anderson and Jeffrey Wright on “The French Dispatch”
“I wanted to do a French movie, and I had this idea of wanting to do a New Yorker movie,” Wes Anderson explains. “Somehow, I also wanted to do one of those omnibus-type things where it was a collectio...
17 Sep 202129min
Bonus: “The French Dispatch” Reads The New Yorker
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The French Dispatch,” is about a magazine, and it was inspired by Anderson’s long-standing love of The New Yorker. In this special episode, introduced by the articles editor ...
17 Sep 202128min
The Insidious Procedural Traps of the Texas Abortion Law
The new Texas law Senate Bill 8 effectively outlaws abortion in Texas, violating constitutional protections on reproductive rights. Yet the Supreme Court is in no rush to review it. The law professor ...
14 Sep 202129min
