Podcasts
A Rookie Reporter Covers the Vietnam War, and Maggie Haberman’s White House
A rookie’s account of Vietnam in 1967 changed how we saw the war. And Maggie Haberman, of the New York Times, talks about the gang war inside the White House.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Man Who Would Be King (of Mars), and Trumpcare Revisited
In this week’s episode, the past and future of American health-care law, and a mild-mannered Englishman who claims that he owns Mars.
Summer Music Festival with James Taylor and Lucinda Williams
On The New Yorker Radio Hour, James Taylor gives Adam Gopnik a guitar lesson, and Lucinda Williams bares her soul to Ariel Levy.
My Night at Mar-a-Lago, and Jon Ronson’s Kidnapped Pig
Inside Donald Trump’s gilded Palm Beach palace, and the journalist Jon Ronson tries his hand at fiction, in “Okja.”
Episode 88: Ai Weiwei, and Doing Business with China
Ai Weiwei reflects on censorship and the refugee crisis, a congressman asks us to reconsider trade with China, and Chinese students explain the country’s Ivanka Trump fever.
Episode 87: Virtual Reality, and the Politics of Genetics
In this episode, Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the intimate and global implications of genetic science, and we look for the Orson Welles of V.R.
Politics and More
Maggie Haberman Talks to David Remnick About Trump and the Gang War in the White House
Maggie Haberman covered Donald Trump years ago for the New York tabloids. Now she has a front-row seat in the White House.
Should Democrats Become “The Party of No”?
Ryan Lizza talks with Dorothy Wickenden about how the Democratic Party can best exploit President Trump’s vulnerabilities on health care, tax reform, and the Russia investigations.
The Brothers Trump
John Cassidy talks with Dorothy Wickenden about how the Russia scandal is closing in on the President’s son Donald Trump, Jr., and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Ai Weiwei Talks to David Remnick About Art, Censorship, and Twitter
Once celebrated by the government, Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous artist. Now he is persona non grata in his country, but won’t stop speaking out.
The Writer’s Voice
Kirstin Valdez Quade Reads “Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224)”
“ ‘Please let me keep it,’ she begs. ‘Please, Christina. I know you can intercede with God. Please do this for me.’ ”
Cristina Henríquez Reads “Everything Is Far from Here”
“What if he’s here, lying in one of those cribs, and she sees him every single day without realizing he’s her son?”
Andrew Sean Greer reads “It’s a Summer Day”
Arthur Less recalls intercontinental-travel advice from an old flame: “They serve you dinner, you take your sleeping pill, they serve you breakfast, you’re there.”
Will Mackin Reads “Crossing the River No Name”
“One rainy night, in March, 2009, we crossed a muddy field to intercept a group of Taliban who’d come out of the mountains of Pakistan.”
Sherman Alexie Reads “Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest”
“The guest had been there for three nights and was supposed to check out by noon. She knocked again. ‘Housekeeping,’ she said.”
Poetry
Erica Jong Reads John Updike
Erica Jong joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss John Updike’s poem “The City Outside,” and her own poem “Dear Keats.”
Lia Purpura Reads Carl Phillips
Purpura joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Phillips’s poem “White Dog” and her own poem “First Leaf.”
Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney
Sleigh joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Heaney’s poem “In the Attic” and his own poem “The Fox.”
Andrew Motion Reads Alice Oswald
Andrew Motion joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Alice Oswald’s poem “Evening Poem” and his own poem “Waders.”
Mary Karr Reads Terrance Hayes
Mary Karr joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Terrance Hayes’s poem “Ars Poetica with Bacon” and her own poem “Face Down.”