Ava DuVernay Wants Her Film “Origin” to Influence the 2024 Election
The filmmaker Ava DuVernay has a reputation for tackling challenging material about America’s troubled past. She depicted the bloody fight to achieve equal voting rights for African Americans in her 2...
8 Jan 202433min
How the Journalist John Nichols Became Another January 6th Conspiracy-Theory Target
The veteran political reporter John Nichols was taking his daughter to the orthodontist on January 6, 2021, the fateful day when the transfer of Presidential power was temporarily derailed by a mob at...
5 Jan 202416min
The Poet John Lee Clark’s “How to Communicate” Brings DeafBlind Experience to the Page
Although many hearing and sighted people imagine DeafBlind life in tragic terms, as an experience of isolation and darkness, the poet John Lee Clark’s writing is full of joy. It’s funny and surprising...
2 Jan 202426min
Dexter Filkins Reports on the Border Crisis
Dexter Filkins has reported on conflict situations around the world, and recently spent months reporting on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border. In a piece published earlier this year, Filkins tri...
29 Dec 202324min
From Critics at Large: The Year of the Doll
This bonus episode comes from The New Yorker’s Critics at Large podcast.In the highest-grossing movie of 2023, Barbie, a literal doll, leaves the comforts of Barbieland and ventures into real-world Lo...
26 Dec 202344min
Bruce Springsteen Has a Gift He Keeps on Giving
At seventy-four, Bruce Springsteen has been cementing his status as a rock-and-roll legend for almost fifty years: he released his widely heralded, but not initially widely heard, début, “Greetings fr...
22 Dec 202349min
Christmas in Tehran: Bringing the Holidays to Hostages
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...
19 Dec 202328min
A Harrowing Detention in Gaza
Growing up in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha wasn’t used to seeing Israeli soldiers in person. “You are bombed from the sky. You are bombed by tanks. You do not see the people, the soldiers who are killing you ...
15 Dec 202321min
