Alex Barron

The beloved comic character actor discusses her Oscar-nominated turn in 1975’s “Hester Street,” which is being re-released.

The critics Vinson Cunningham and Alexandra Schwartz discuss whether the record-breaking number of plays by Black playwrights this season is a sign of things to come.

Cast members of Wes Anderson’s new film, which is inspired by The New Yorker, read classic works associated with the magazine.

The director and one of the stars of the new film, which is about the writers of a magazine, explain the fictional publication’s uncanny similarities to The New Yorker.

The writer reads from her 2011 essay about the September 11th attacks and a devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Radio Hour listeners go toe to toe in The New Yorker’s new Name Drop quiz.

July was, globally, the hottest month on record. The author of a climate-change novel tries to imagine how things could begin to turn around.

David Remnick and the staff writer Naomi Fry match wits in The New Yorker’s new online quiz.

The French chef teaches David Remnick a thing or two about crêpes, and explains how much America’s food culture has changed since he first tried to buy mushrooms in the supermarket.

The new Aretha Franklin bio-pic was a labor of love for its filmmaker.

Marketed as a tool against terrorism, the spyware was also deployed by governments against journalists and activists. Isaac Chotiner interviews one of the targets.

The food writer picks three cocktails to toast the reopening world, and mixes them on her colleague Michael Schulman’s baking hot roof.

Israel’s new coalition government includes leftists and an Arab-Israeli party, but nothing seems likely to shake the Prime Minister’s hard line on the Palestinian question.

By facilitating a coördinated meme-stock surge, small investors following the Reddit forum r/WallStreetBets shook global financial markets. But why?

The musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax explain how familiar music has taken on a new tone during the pandemic.

A New Yorker critic picks 2020’s best films and performances, according to him.

The director talks about his new feature—written by his late father, Jack Fincher—and the eternal struggle between screenwriters and directors.

The performer’s sleight of hand made him successful as a crooked card dealer. But once you start deceiving people for a living, he says, you see deception everywhere.

April 15, 2020, was near the apex of the coronavirus pandemic’s brutal first wave, as it hit New York City hard. This episode documents twenty-four hours at the epicenter.

The U.S. tortured Mohamedou Salahi and kept him at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years. He’s no Al Qaeda mastermind, but, even today, he’s virtually a prisoner. Why won’t we let him go?