Poetry as a Cistern for Love and Loss
Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry this year, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The ...
16 Dec 202524min
Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes
In the course of his long career, Leon Panetta was a lieutenant in the Army, a congressman from California, Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, Barack Obama’s director of the C.I.A., and later,...
12 Dec 202526min
Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow on “The New Yorker at 100,” a Documentary
This year marked a hundred years since the birth of The New Yorker, and a documentary about the magazine’s past and present, “The New Yorker at 100,” is now streaming on Netflix. The director is the A...
9 Dec 202532min
Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Her Film About William Shakespeare’s Grief
Chloé Zhao was the second woman to ever win an Oscar for Best Director, for her 2020 film “Nomadland.” After taking a wide turn to create the Marvel supernatural epic “Eternals,” Zhao has taken anothe...
7 Dec 202523min
Senator Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents
As a California congressman, Adam Schiff was the lead manager during the first impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. He later served on the January 6th committee. Trump has castigated him as “...
5 Dec 202527min
Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney
The filmmaker Noah Baumbach can recall when he may have fallen out of love with his craft. He was shooting “White Noise,” based on Don DeLillo’s novel, “on a deserted highway in Ohio at 4 A.M. with a ...
2 Dec 202520min
Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster
In his latest novel, Ian McEwan imagines a future world after a century’s worth of disasters. The good news in “What We Can Know” is that humanity still exists, which McEwan calls “nuanced optimism.” ...
28 Nov 202529min
Why Is Leaving MAGA So Difficult?
Only thirty per cent of the American public identifies with the MAGA movement, according to a recent NBC poll, but that coalition remains intensely loyal to Donald Trump in the face of scandals and au...
25 Nov 202522min
