David Remnick

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?

New Yorker writers on some of their favorite summer reads—from a fictional celebrity memoir to three history doorstops to a children’s classic.

The author talks about how she got started, her latest book, and the impact of Ireland’s economic boom and collapse.

The Atlanta artist launched a poster campaign titled “Fahamu Pecou Is the Shit.” But his works about black male identity are as serious as they are sometimes funny. 

More than half a billion people watched astronauts walk on the moon. Why do so many people believe it didn’t happen? Plus, three accounts of watching the “giant leap for mankind.” 

The actor reads “Alan Bean Plus Four,” his short story about a D.I.Y. journey into space.  

The singer, who never has writer’s block, crafts songs by the dozen to pick and choose for her albums. She spoke with the New Yorker critic and performed “I Really Like You.” 

A hero to the left and a favored villain of the right, the New York congressional representative sits for a long interview with David Remnick.

Adapting a classic novel for the stage, the writer has a few bones to pick with the heroic figure of Atticus Finch. Plus, visiting a food court with writer Ocean Vuong. 

Serving as Poet Laureate, Smith took literature to community centers, senior centers, prisons—anywhere people needed it. 

A Mexican writer travels to the American Southwest, where performances of Wild West history run up against the reality of the border crisis. 

The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic doesn’t just review shows; she’s making an argument about television as a medium that deserves respect on its own terms.  

The Trump Administration says it has made combatting human trafficking a priority, but it has undermined a critical visa program designed to help trafficking’s victims.

The staff writer, an expert on the Middle East, says, “This is how wars start; everybody's playing chicken now.”