David Remnick

Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

David Remnick appears in the following:

N. K. Jemisin on H. P. Lovecraft

Friday, January 31, 2020

A celebrated science-fiction author grapples with her genre’s deep legacy of racism.

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A Tumultuous Week in Impeachment, and Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril

Friday, January 31, 2020

Susan Glasser assesses the impact of John Bolton’s manuscript on the impeachment case. And a historian looks to the nineteen-thirties—the last time democracy seemed so fraught.

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What Would a World Without Prisons Be Like?

Friday, January 24, 2020

Kai Wright sits down with two advocates of prison abolition to discuss the why and the how of ‘decarceration.’

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The Alternative Oscars, 2020 Edition

Friday, January 24, 2020

A New Yorker critic names the best films of 2019; and two prison abolitionists explain a vision of the world of ‘decarceration,’ where only a tiny number of people are locked up.

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Mass Incarceration, Then and Now

Friday, January 17, 2020

Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. Ten years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made?

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Mass Incarceration, Then and Now

Friday, January 17, 2020

Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. Ten years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made? 

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The Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran

Friday, January 10, 2020

Eric Lach is in Iowa ahead of the next debate, where Democratic candidates are honing their responses to the situation in Iran. Plus, an insider’s disenchantment with Silicon Valley.

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The Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran

Friday, January 10, 2020

Eric Lach is in Iowa ahead of the next debate, where the Democratic candidates are honing their responses to the situation in Iran. Plus, an insider’s disenchantment with Silicon Valley.

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Terry Gross Talks with David Remnick

Friday, January 03, 2020

The celebrated interviewer opens up about finding her radio voice, and what she’s given up to host “Fresh Air.”

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Dexter Filkins on the Air Strike that Killed Qassem Suleimani

Friday, January 03, 2020

Previous Administrations had considered the Iranian military commander too dangerous to touch. Is the U.S. prepared for war with Iran?

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Terry Gross Talks with David Remnick

Friday, January 03, 2020

The celebrated interviewer opens up about finding her radio voice and what she’s given up to host “Fresh Air.” Plus, New Yorker writers pick sides for an age-old battle: cats or dogs?

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Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads

Friday, December 27, 2019

A lifelong surfer reports on a machine-made wave that could finally make surfing a conventional sport—and potentially transform its spirit.

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Patty Marx Conducts an Orchestra

Friday, December 27, 2019

A longtime staff writer tries out an altogether different career. And the New Yorker writer Kelefa Sanneh praises his favorite Christian rockers.

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Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads

Friday, December 27, 2019

A machine-made wave could make surfing a conventional sport—or destroy its spirit. Plus: an amateur conductor takes the baton of a major orchestra, and Kelefa Sanneh on Christian rock.

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Peter Dinklage on Cyrano, and Life After “Thrones”

Friday, December 20, 2019

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” made the actor a superstar; now he can return to the stage. Plus, Satan answers children’s letters that were supposed to be delivered to Santa.

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The Hyperpartisan State

Friday, December 20, 2019

Where does hyper-partisanship come from? And what does it look like up close and personal? A reporter visits the bellwether state of North Carolina.

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Peter Dinklage on Cyrano, and Life After “Thrones”

Friday, December 20, 2019

“Game of Thrones” made the actor a superstar; now he returns to his roots on stage. And Kathleen Turner, in the role of Satan, answers children’s letters intended for Santa.

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Helen Rosner Takes the Office-Fridge Challenge

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Our dauntless food correspondent accepts a daunting task: to assemble a meal out of whatever she can find in The New Yorker’s communal kitchen.

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Lena Waithe on Police Violence and “Queen & Slim”

Monday, December 16, 2019

The screenwriter’s new film is about a first date that goes terribly wrong when a police officer is shot. “We create the heroes we need,” Waithe tells Jelani Cobb.

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Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” and Damon Lindelof’s “Watchmen”

Friday, December 13, 2019

The writer-director discusses her much-anticipated adaptation of the classic novel. And the creator of HBO’s big show of this season talks with Emily Nussbaum.

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