Viola Davis on Playing Michelle Obama, and Finding Her Voice as an Actor
The Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis traces her career in Hollywood back to a single moment of inspiration from her childhood: watching Cicely Tyson star in the 1974 movie “The Autobiography of Miss Ja...
25 Apr 202230min
Ronan Farrow on the Threat of Modern Spyware
Ronan Farrow has published an investigation into a software called Pegasus and its maker, NSO Group. Pegasus is one of the most invasive spywares known; it allows users—including law-enforcement offic...
22 Apr 202219min
“We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and a Short History of Movies about the Internet
The Internet can be a scary place in real life, and far more so in Jane Schoenbrun’s film “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” which premièred at the Sundance Film Festival last year and is being re...
19 Apr 202217min
Jennifer Egan on the Literary Pleasures of the Concept Album
Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “The Candy House,” one of the most anticipated books of the year, has just been published. It is related—not a sequel exactly, but something like a sibling—to her Pulitzer P...
12 Apr 202232min
Anita Hill and Jane Mayer on Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the State of the Supreme Court
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been voted in as a Supreme Court Justice—the first Black woman to serve in that role. But, to reach this milestone, Jackson has faced enormous hurdles at every turn, includin...
8 Apr 202218min
The Missing Boater
Dick Conant spent years of his life crisscrossing America by canoe, like a Mark Twain character. On land, he worked a variety of jobs and was often homeless, but paddling on a river, he was king. By c...
5 Apr 202220min
Investigating January 6th
With a judge declaring that Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed a felony in his attempt to overturn the Presidential election, the congressional committee investigating January 6th is racing...
1 Apr 202228min
Connor Ratliff Talks with Sarah Larson, Plus Chef Bryant Terry
An aspiring actor named Connor Ratliff thought he had it made when he got a small part on the 2001 miniseries “Band of Brothers,” in an episode directed by Hollywood legend Tom Hanks. The day before s...
29 Mars 202229min
