In Secret, a North Korean Writer Protests the Regime
Bandi is the pen name of a North Korean writer. He is believed to be a propaganda writer for the government who began to write, secretly, fiction and poems critical of the regime. (Details of his biog...
9 Mars 201835min
Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Dossier
The dossier—a secret report alleging various corrupt dealings between Donald Trump, his campaign, and the government of Russia, made public after the 2016 election—is one of the most hotly debated doc...
6 Mars 201838min
Alone and on Foot in Antarctica
Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and collector of rare books, maps, and fossils. But his true...
6 Mars 201826min
Jennifer Lawrence on “Red Sparrow” and Times Up
Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for her first Oscar at twenty, and since then she has balanced the biggest of big-budget franchises, like the “Hunger Games” and the “X-Men” series, with smaller, prest...
2 Mars 201829min
The New Yorker presents “The Brodies”
Richard Brody hosts an alternative Oscars show — “The Brodies” — and recommends some of his favorite films from the past year, and the writer Chang-rae Lee takes us to a sprawling international super...
27 Feb 201819min
Masha Gessen on Trump and Russia, and a Former Border Agent on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Masha Gessen was born in the Soviet Union and has written extensively about Russian politics. She talks with David Remnick about the similarities between Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America. The New Yo...
23 Feb 201835min
Director Ava DuVernay on “Selma” and “A Wrinkle in Time”
No film adaptation of “A Wrinkle In Time,” Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved, and often banned, children’s book, published in 1962, has ever made it to American movie theaters. It finally comes to the scree...
20 Feb 201830min
A Reckoning at Facebook
We now know that Russian operatives exploited Facebook and other social media to sow division and undermine the election of 2016, and special counsel Robert Mueller recently indicted Russian nationals...
16 Feb 201826min
