Sara Nics

Producer, Assignment Editor, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Sara Nics appears in the following:

Reggie Watts on Virtual Reality

Friday, June 16, 2017

Welcome to the thoughtsphere. What’s a thoughtsphere?

James Ivory on “Maurice,” a Gay Love Story with a Happy Ending

Friday, June 09, 2017

E. M. Forster’s “Maurice” was something entirely new: a gay love story with a happy ending. The Merchant Ivory film adaptation, from 1987, has just been re-released.    

Ellen Bass Loves Repetition

Friday, May 26, 2017

The poet Ellen Bass explores the habits that take us through life and death.

Lena Dunham Says Goodbye to "Girls"

Friday, May 19, 2017

Hours before Lena Dunham’s thirtieth-birthday party, she joined David Remnick to drink champagne and discuss the end of her twenties, and the end of "Girls."

Bruce Eric Kaplan Escapes Reality for Television

Friday, April 28, 2017

As a child, Bruce Eric Kaplan loved TV so much that he wanted to crawl inside it. Then he did.

Paul Muldoon Picks Three

Friday, April 21, 2017

The New Yorker’s poetry editor recommends a painter, a poet, and a rocker.

Hilton Als on his Inspirations and that Pulitzer Prize

Friday, April 14, 2017

Hilton Als on winning the Pulitzer Prize.

What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us about the Realities of War

Friday, April 14, 2017

A conversation about Sophocles in the aftermath of the Iraq and Afghan wars.    

Neil Gorsuch and the Uses of History

Friday, March 24, 2017

Conservative and liberal legal scholars make history their battleground.    

Refugees in Limbo in Buffalo

Friday, March 10, 2017

At the Vive shelter, immigrants hoping for asylum in the United States or Canada sometimes find themselves in limbo, with no end in sight.

Emily Flake on How to Live

Friday, February 24, 2017

The cartoonist Emily Flake recommends a book of philosophy from the nineteen-thirties that presciently describes our current moment.  

The Strange Journeys of Anthony Bourdain

Friday, February 10, 2017

Once an anonymous cook struggling with addiction, Anthony Bourdain wrote a ribald memoir and rose to food stardom. Now he chows down with Presidents.

Cartoonist Liana Finck Rides the Train to Nowhere

Friday, January 27, 2017

Cartoonist Liana Finck likes to work on the train, but she doesn’t commute.  She just needs a place to work.

A Farm Grows in Newark

Friday, January 13, 2017

Ian Frazier visits the farm of the future, in an industrial building in New Jersey.

George Saunders’s Lincoln

Friday, January 13, 2017

Lincoln was not only a great political leader but a great spiritual figure in the eyes of the fiction writer George Saunders.

Lessons in Love from Holland-Dozier-Holland

Friday, January 06, 2017

A young man learns about love by analyzing the work of Motown’s songwriting geniuses

The Poet Ocean Vuong, at Home in the Food Court

Friday, December 16, 2016

A food court with heavenly pho and crispy duck is a home away from home for an immigrant poet.

Playground Purgatory

Friday, December 02, 2016

Two mothers meet on the playground, and things get weird.

Leonard Cohen: A Last Interview

Friday, November 11, 2016

David Remnick spent days interviewing Leonard Cohen, one of the great songwriters, not long before the musician’s death.

Podcast Extra: Looking Back with Leonard Cohen

Thursday, November 10, 2016

In a last interview with Leonard Cohen, he discusses his career, his spiritual influences, and what he is doing to prepare for death.

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