Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After”
Twenty years ago, Regina Spektor was yet another aspiring musician in New York, lugging around a backpack full of self-produced CDs and playing at little clubs in the East Village—anywhere that had a ...
28 Juli 202343min
Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”
Colson Whitehead is one of the most lauded writers working today. His 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad” won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; he won the Pulitzer again fo...
25 Juli 202323min
Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director
In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan relied on a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 biography of the father of the atomic bomb, “American Prometheus: ...
21 Juli 202327min
Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King”
“When people think of the crack epidemic, they think of crime,” the journalist Donovan X. Ramsey tells David Remnick. “But they don’t necessarily know the ways that it impacted the most vulnerable—the...
18 Juli 202323min
A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race
No Labels, which pitches itself as a centrist movement to appeal to disaffected voters, has secured a considerable amount of funding and is working behind the scenes to get on Presidential ballots acr...
14 Juli 202327min
How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt
Nearly one in ten Americans owe significant medical debt, a burden that can become crippling as living costs and interest rates rise. Over the past decade, a nonprofit called RIP Medical Debt has desi...
11 Juli 202314min
The Conspiracies of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of a former Attorney General and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, has announced that he’s running for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He is nearly seven...
7 Juli 202332min
Beyoncé Takes the Stage
This summer, the most anticipated tour (in close contest with Taylor Swift) is Beyoncé’s tour for her seventh studio album, “Renaissance,” which came out in 2022. Her previous record “was about the tu...
4 Juli 20239min
