Podcasts

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An illustrated portrait of Better Midler as her character in the show "Coastal Elites"
The New Yorker Radio Hour

Bette Midler on “Coastal Elites”

The actress, along with the screenwriter Paul Rudnick, talks about playing a character close to their hearts: a New Yorker who is educated, funny, and losing her mind over Donald Trump.

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Joe Biden on F.D.R., and Rick Perlstein on Donald Trump

An illustrated portrait of Joe Biden with a shadow of FDR

A sit-down interview with the Democratic nominee. Plus, Rick Perlstein on Goldwater, Reagan, and Trump.

August 28, 2020

Will This Be Joe Biden’s F.D.R. Moment?

Joe Biden.

The longtime political reporter Evan Osnos sat down—in person, masked, and socially distant—with the Democratic nominee.

August 23, 2020

Will Ahmaud Arbery Get Justice?

An illustration of a photo of Ahmaud Arbery

We try to explain why prosecutors let a young man’s killers walk free. Plus, a conversation with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross about their score for “Watchmen.”

August 21, 2020

A Former White Nationalist Goes on the Record, and a Classic Villain Gets an Origin Story

A woman running away from her silhouette holding a Tiki torch

How does a young woman go from canvassing for Obama to carrying a tiki torch in Charlottesville? Plus, a new Netflix show imagines the backstory of the classic antihero Nurse Ratched.

August 14, 2020

The Rikers Debate Project, and Isabel Wilkerson

Two figures in profile behind bars debating

Inmates and former inmates debate the most critical topics of the day, parliamentary style. Plus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explains America’s racial caste system.

August 7, 2020

Politics and More

Bette Midler and the Screenwriter Paul Rudnick on “Coastal Elites”

A still from "Coastal Elites."

In the new film, the actress’s role is no big stretch: a smart, funny New Yorker so angered by a MAGA hat that she winds up in police custody. (This segment contains adult language.)

September 7, 2020

Can Ron DeSantis Deliver a Victory in Florida to Donald Trump?

Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump sitting at a table with a screen that reads "We're In This Together." behind them

How Republicans have been suppressing Democratic votes to turn Florida from a swing state into a G.O.P. stronghold.

September 3, 2020

Would an Election Victory Be Joe Biden’s F.D.R. Moment?

Joe Biden puts his mask on after delivering remarks.

The longtime political reporter Evan Osnos sat down—in person, masked, and socially distant—with the Democratic nominee.

August 31, 2020

Trump’s Convention and the Allure of the Politics of Fear

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the RNC in 2016.

The President’s pitch to voters hasn’t changed since 2016: you’re under dangerous attack, and I’m the only one who can save you.

August 27, 2020

Everyone Knew Who Shot Ahmaud Arbery. Why Did the Killers Walk Free?

People stand in a lawn with signs for Ahmaud Arbery.

In February, a young Black man was shot by three white men while jogging. His killers were known. But it took seventy-four days for them to be arrested. What were prosecutors thinking?

August 24, 2020

The Writer’s Voice

Douglas Stuart Reads “The Englishman”

Douglas Stuart posing for a photo sitting in a midcentury chair and holding a book

The author reads his story from the September 14, 2020, issue of the magazine.

September 8, 2020

Susan Choi Reads “Flashlight”

Susan Choi posing for the camera in a green sweater with a gray t-shirt layered underneath

The author reads her story from the September 7, 2020, issue of the magazine.

September 1, 2020

David Wright Faladé Reads “The Sand Banks, 1861”

David Wright Faladé poses for the camera in a plaid shirt

The author reads his story from the August 31, 2020, issue of the magazine.

August 25, 2020

David Gilbert Reads “Cicadia”

David Gilbert sitting in front of a bookshelf

The author reads his story from the August 24, 2020, issue of the magazine.

August 18, 2020

Madhuri Vijay Reads “You Are My Dear Friend”

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The author reads her story from the August 17, 2020, issue of the magazine.

August 11, 2020

Fiction

David Gilbert Reads Samantha Hunt

David Gilbert leaning against a blue table and looking off in to the distance

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Three Days,” by Samantha Hunt, from a 2006 issue of the magazine.

September 1, 2020

Tommy Orange Reads Louise Erdrich

Tommy Orange.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Years of My Birth,” by Louise Erdrich, from a 2011 issue of the magazine.

August 1, 2020

Allegra Goodman Reads Eudora Welty

Allegra Goodman

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “No Place for You, My Love,” by Eudora Welty, from a 1952 issue of the magazine.

July 1, 2020

Bryan Washington Reads Haruki Murakami

Bryan Washington

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “U.F.O. in Kushiro,” by Haruki Murakami, from a 2001 issue of the magazine.

June 1, 2020

Kristen Roupenian Reads Shirley Jackson

Kristen Roupenian

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Afternoon in Linen,” by Shirley Jackson, from a 1943 issue of the magazine.

May 1, 2020

Poetry

Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times

Marilyn Nelson, Tracy K. Smith and Terrance Hayes

In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes join Kevin Young to read their work, and to discuss its relationship to protest and liberation.

July 24, 2020

Clarence Major Reads Billy Collins

Clarence Major

Clarence Major joins Kevin Young to discuss “Downpour,” by Billy Collins, and his own poem “Hair.”

June 24, 2020

Elisa Gonzalez Reads Czeslaw Milosz

Elisa Gonalzez

Gonzalez joins Kevin Young to discuss “Gathering Apricots,” by Milosz, and her own poem “Failed Essay on Privilege.”

April 29, 2020

Ben Purkert Reads Jorie Graham

Ben Purkert

Purkert joins Kevin Young to discuss “Notes on the Reality of the Self,” by Graham, and his own poem “News.”

March 25, 2020

Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott

Kwame Dawes

Dawes joins Kevin Young to discuss “The Season of Phantasmal Peace,” by Walcott, and his own poem “Before Winter.”

February 26, 2020