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
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
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
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
