David Remnick

Laura Poitras turns surveillance into art, David Bowie’s jazz band, and more.  

The New Yorker’s political reporters assess the successes and failures of Barack Obama’s Presidency; Jeanette Winterson celebrates Christmas; and a poet visits the food court.

A populist candidate hires an economic team from Goldman Sachs, and an English professor delivers a Hegelian analysis of Trump. Plus, Michael Chabon on TV’s best, most boring show.

Jane Mayer gets pushback after she investigates the Koch brothers; Heather Hardy prepares for a big fight; and an astronomer makes his case for the existence of a new ninth planet.

Bruce Springsteen tells David Remnick why he waited decades to put out a memoir.

A conservative keeps the faith in the age of Trump; Zadie Smith discusses the death of the novel; and a Thanksgiving side dish speaks out.  

David Remnick’s conversation with Leonard Cohen in the last months of the musician’s life, and Amy Davidson and George Packer grapple with the Trump Presidency.

The 2016 election gets the Hollywood treatment, and an evangelical minister contemplates the decline of the Christian G.O.P. 

This special hour examines the effects of Syria’s civil war, the worst humanitarian crisis of the twenty-first century, from both inside the White House and on the ground in Aleppo.

In this episode, the surgeon Atul Gawande talks with the musician Andrew Bird, and a panel of experts discusses what a Trump Presidency would look like.  

Mikhail Baryshnikov talks about playing the revolutionary choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, and T.C. Boyle shares a blues musician he discovered on a college radio station.

In this episode, Obama’s former campaign strategist talks Clinton and the Cubs, a mathematician rocks out, and the “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris vents a little.    

In this episode, Harry Belafonte discusses his lifelong activism; an isolated tribe emerges from the forest; and we try out a voice-recognition gadget that doesn’t know when to shut up.

In this episode, Colson Whitehead reimagines the Underground Railroad, Jill Lepore assesses the sorry state of political debate, and Sharon Horgan finds humor in “Divorce.”    

In this episode, “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway, high-fashion hijabs, and the tragic life of guitar legend John Fahey. 

In this episode, Ariel Levy investigates ayahuasca, an ancient Amazonian hallucinogen, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks with David Remnick about the mortality rates of athletes. 

In this episode, Libertarian Presidential nominee Gary Johnson talks guns and marijuana, dead bees are beautified, and Barthelme’s classic short story about the school year from hell.

Larry David vents, and a Chicago priest delivers a sermon to gang members.

In this episode, a Nobel Prize-winning historian on the fall of the Soviet Union, David Remnick recalls the August Coup, and Clinton’s top policy adviser considers the problem of Putin.