David Remnick appears in the following:
Building a War-Crimes Case Against Bashar al-Assad
Friday, August 11, 2017
Ben Taub shares his reporting on a group that’s building a war-crimes case against Bashar al-Assad, and a war-crimes expert explains how to run a fair tribunal.
Syrian War Crimes, Country Music, and a Central Park Salad
Friday, August 11, 2017
On this week’s show, David Remnick talks with a war-crimes expert about how to run a fair tribunal, and Patricia Marx goes foraging in Central Park.
Senator Al Franken Really Is Senatorial
Tuesday, August 08, 2017
Senator Franken and David Remnick discuss the health-care vote, the Russia investigation, and how his sense of humor has been a liability
Al Franken Unbound, and the Scaramucci Call
Friday, August 04, 2017
The phone call that ended Anthony Scaramucci’s term as White House communications director; and Senator Al Franken, unbound.
The Scaramucci Call
Thursday, August 03, 2017
David Remnick and Ryan Lizza listen back to the phone call from Anthony Scaramucci that ended his brief term as White House communications director.
The Scaramucci Call
Thursday, August 03, 2017
David Remnick and Ryan Lizza listen back to the phone call from Anthony Scaramucci that ended his brief term as White House communications director.
An Irish Novelist’s Début Explores Friendship and Adultery in the Digital Age
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
An Irish writer explores friendship and adultery in the digital age in her début novel.
George Strait, on the Record with Kelefa Sanneh
Friday, July 28, 2017
Country superstar George Strait’s search for the next hit, and Lawrence Wright’s exploration of how Texas is our future.
George Strait on the Record, and Lawrence Wright on Texas
Friday, July 28, 2017
Country superstar George Strait’s search for the next hit; Lawrence Wright discusses how Texas is America’s future; and Sally Rooney considers adultery in the age of social media.
A Rookie Reporter in Vietnam Captures the War’s Futility
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
In 1967, a rookie reporter’s eyewitness account of the futility of the Vietnam War shocked readers.
Maggie Haberman: Gang War in the White House
Friday, July 21, 2017
Maggie Haberman and Donald Trump go way back.
A Rookie Reporter Covers the Vietnam War; and Maggie Haberman’s White House
Friday, July 21, 2017
A rookie’s account of Vietnam in 1967 changed how we saw the war. And Maggie Haberman, of the New York Times, on the gang war inside the White House.
The Man Who Would Be King (of Mars)
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Dr. Phil Davies, a country doctor in England, says that he owns Mars. What if he’s right?
Trumpcare Revisited
Friday, July 14, 2017
An Obamacare veteran keeps fighting the fight—even into the White House. And Jill Lepore explains the century-long battle for universal coverage.
The Man Who Would Be King (of Mars), and Trumpcare Revisited
Friday, July 14, 2017
David Remnick on the past and future of American health-care law, and a mild-mannered Englishman claims that he owns Mars.
Lucinda Williams Talks with Ariel Levy
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Lucinda Williams talks with Ariel Levy about God, Flannery O’Connor, and her long and twisting path through the music industry.
James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar
Friday, July 07, 2017
Adam Gopnik talks with James Taylor and tries not to go all Chris Farley Show: “Remember when you wrote ‘Fire and Rain’? That was great.”
Summer Music Festival with James Taylor and Lucinda Williams
Friday, July 07, 2017
James Taylor gives Adam Gopnik a quick guitar lesson; and Lucinda Williams bares her soul to Ariel Levy.
My Night at Mar-a-Lago
Monday, July 03, 2017
Taking the political temperature of Palm Beach at a swinging party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s palace away from home.
"Okja" and Other Strange Stories by Jon Ronson
Friday, June 30, 2017
Jon Ronson’s nonfiction has often seemed too strange to be true; in the screenplay for “Okja,” he goes all in for surreal fiction. Plus, Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
