David Remnick

Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

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David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992...

He has written many pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe, and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Remnick began his reporting career as a staff writer at the Washington Post in 1982, where he covered stories for the Metro, Sports, and Style sections. In 1988, he started a four-year tenure as a Washington Post Moscow correspondent, an experience that formed the basis of his 1993 book on the former Soviet Union, “Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.” In 1994, “Lenin’s Tomb” received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.

Since Remnick became editor, The New Yorker has garnered a hundred and forty-nine nominations for National Magazine Awards and has won thirty-seven. In 2001 and again in 2005, the magazine won an unprecedented five National Magazine Awards; in 2014, the magazine won four awards. In addition, in 2000 Remnick was named Advertising Age’s Editor of the Year.

Remnick has written six books: “Lenin’s Tomb,” “Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia,” “King of the World” (a biography of Muhammad Ali), “The Bridge” (a biography of Barack Obama), and “The Devil Problem” and “Reporting,” which are collections of some of his pieces from the magazine. Remnick has edited many anthologies of New Yorker pieces, including “Life Stories,” “Wonderful Town,” “The New Gilded Age,” “Fierce Pajamas,” “Secret Ingredients,” and “Disquiet, Please!”

Remnick has contributed to The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Esquire, andThe New Republic. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has taught at Princeton, where he received his B.A., in 1981, and at Columbia. He lives in New York with his wife, Esther Fein; they have three children, Alex, Noah, and Natasha.

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David Remnick appears in the following:

The New Yorker: Politics & A Movie

Thursday, December 04, 2025

Hearing about 'The New Yorker at 100,' premiering Friday on Netflix.

Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster. Plus, Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney

Friday, November 28, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The novelist on his new book, set a century in the future. Plus, the director talks with the New Yorker editor Susan Morrison about his new film.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025

Friday, November 14, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The financial journalist on the 1929 Wall Street crash, and the mounting concerns about an A.I. bubble. Plus, the curator Thelma Golden on the reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker; Plus, Patti Smith on Fifty Years Since Her Début, “Horses”

Friday, November 07, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Illinois governor on immigration raids in Chicago, and the limits of state authority to oppose the federal government. Plus, the musician and author talks with David Remnick.

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Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump

Friday, October 31, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The “Daily Show” host talks with David Remnick about his contract with Paramount Skydance, the government’s attack on political satire, and how our institutions got so weak.

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Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control. Plus, the “Enshittification” of the Internet

Friday, October 24, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The author discusses her new collection, “Dead and Alive,” and its concern with technology in our lives. And the tech blogger Cory Doctorow explains why the internet is getting worse.

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Wednesday Morning Politics: Trump's Diplomatic Success and More

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, talks about the latest national political news, and previews this year's New Yorker festival.

Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump

Friday, October 10, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Democratic candidate for mayor would be one of the youngest and the first Muslim in the job. He discusses threats from Donald Trump, and what socialism means in practice.

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How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song. Plus, a Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture

Friday, October 03, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The singer discusses his memoir, “Truly.” And the legal scholar Robert P. George explains what the Trump Administration has got right and wrong in its attack on America’s universities.

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Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party

Friday, September 26, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The writer and podcaster on why he thinks Democrats need to broaden their scope—to both the right and the left—and what people misunderstand about his role in politics and media.

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Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?

Friday, September 19, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The election lawyer Marc Elias explains what the Trump Administration is doing to rig elections in its favor. Plus, the cartoonist Liana Finck picks three children’s books.

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How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster

Friday, September 12, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley spent decades trying to negotiate peace in the Middle East, and they know why it failed. Plus, a new book from the poet Kevin Young.

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Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue

Friday, September 05, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Vogue’s Anna Wintour talks with David Remnick about choosing Chloe Malle as her successor, and the changing fashion industry. Plus, Jeff Tweedy on his new album “Twilight Override.”

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Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow. Plus, the Many Sounds of Fred Armisen

Friday, August 29, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Adam Gopnik discusses the Administration’s moves to dictate what is acceptable in American culture. Plus, the comedian on his new album, “100 Sound Effects.”

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Spike Lee and Denzel Washington on “Highest 2 Lowest.” Plus Mohammed Mhawish on Escaping Death in Gaza

Friday, August 15, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The director and the actor discuss their latest collaboration, nineteen years after their last one. Plus, a Palestinian reporter’s account of being targeted in an Israeli air strike.

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Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law. Plus, Richard Brody on Clint Eastwood

Friday, August 08, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Jeannie Suk Gersen and Ruth Marcus address listeners’ pressing questions about the Trump Administration’s legal controversies. Plus, the film critic recommends three Eastwood films.

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John Brennan, Former C.I.A. Director, on Being Targeted by Trump. Plus, Jamaica Kincaid on “Putting Myself Together.”

Friday, August 01, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Brennan’s C.I.A. was lambasted by Donald Trump as part of what he called the “Russia hoax.” Why is the Administration going after him now? And Jamaica Kincaid speaks with David Remnick.

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Report from Israel

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, talks about his recent trip from Israel, as the country celebrates the recent victory over Iran and ...

Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles. Plus, Dexter Filkins on the Future of Warfare.

Friday, July 25, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Elected in part on a promise to address the housing crisis, Bass faces a different crisis: a federal “seizure” of Los Angeles, and an Administration fixated on mass deportation.

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Janet Yellen on the Danger of a “Banana Republic” Economy. Plus, Carrie Brownstein on Cat Power

Friday, July 11, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The former chair of the Federal Reserve on the budget, and Donald Trump’s dangerous fixation on low interest rates. And Brownstein describes a rock-and-roll portrait by Richard Avedon. 

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