Jeffrey Masters

Hanks’s début novel, “The Making of a Major Motion Picture,” is out now. He kicks off his book tour live onstage with David Remnick.

Michael Schulman talks with Laura Jacqmin, a veteran TV writer and a Writers Guild strike captain, about the stakes of the work stoppage.

The singer-songwriter on her new album, “Strays,” and a memoir of struggling to make it in Nashville.

Navalny, the opposition leader, survived poisoning and now languishes in prison. His colleague Maria Pevchikh talks about the Oscar-nominated documentary “Navalny.”

David Remnick talks with the historian Stephen Kotkin and the Kyiv-based journalist Sevgil Musaieva about a year of disaster, and what a Ukrainian victory would look like.

Alex Barasch picks some examples—successful and otherwise—from the long history of video-game adaptations for film and television.

The staff writer Michael Schulman talks about the history detailed in his new book, “Oscar Wars,” and why the awards remain relevant in an era of declining theatre attendance.

At age ninety-four, Strouse is compiling his archives to donate to the Library of Congress. The producer Jeffrey Masters joins him at home to reflect on his life and career.

Kapoor’s much anticipated new novel about crime and corruption in India’s capital is the first in a trilogy.

The legendary journalist has chronicled the White House going back to Nixon. He knows how to interview Presidents. But, with Donald Trump, Woodward got more than he bargained for.

In the wake of Damar Hamlin’s accident, staff writer Louisa Thomas talks with David Remnick about an uncomfortable truth: football’s danger to players is part of its singular popularity.

The food guru explains why she hated dinnertime growing up, and how she learned to love it. Garten takes questions from our listeners on everything from bay leaves to her scarves.

Extremism and election denial fared poorly in the midterm elections. Yet the authors of the book “How Democracies Die” say the threat of authoritarianism remains high.

David Remnick talks with Jonathan Freedland about his new book, which chronicles the life of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped from Auschwitz as a teen-ager.

The Sudanese American poet talks with Dana Goodyear about her new work, which breaks the strictures she earlier set in an effort to present herself modestly.

The show’s creator talks with Naomi Fry about his attraction to reality television, and why he writes stories of the privileged.

The singer has written a memoir, “Surrender.” It deals with the early loss of his mother, finding religion in music, and navigating the Troubles while in a rock band from Dublin.

The influential playwright talks with Vinson Cunningham about the revival on Broadway of her groundbreaking play.

The author speaks with the staff writer Parul Sehgal about his new novel, a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Less.”

The Broadway fixture is out with a new play, reflecting on his family’s history in the Holocaust. He talks with the contributor Andrew Dickson about his latest work and long career.