Jonathan Mitchell

The staff writer and the cartoonist share their picks from the archive—an essay by Joan Didion, and a caveman cartoon by George Booth—to celebrate The New Yorker’s centennial.

The longtime staff writer Dana Goodyear talks about the devastation of the wildfires that devastated her house and thousands of other buildings in the Los Angeles area.

Let’s make sure the objectives are actionable from a budgetary standpoint—then let’s rip off our clothes and fight to the death.

In need of a little holiday cheer this year? Listen to this radio drama of a Christmas story by Kurt Andersen.  

The subversive origins of a dance craze that swept the nation in the 1890s.

Where did the zombie epidemic in pop culture come from?

Let’s make sure the objectives are actionable from a budgetary standpoint—then let’s rip off our clothes and fight to the death.

Jonathan Mitchell is a writer in Los Angeles. He’s written a novel about his life experience with Asperger’s syndrome, an autism-spectrum disorder. Independent producer Tamar Brott met Mitchell in a writing class a few years ago.

And Kurt begins his conversation with researcher Blythe Corbett, ...

Morton Feldman was composer who decided graph paper could set his music free. He created a whole new way of notating music in the 1960’s. It included a lot of scribbled marks in rows of little boxes. The music scholar David Bernstein and percussionist Jan Williams describe how Feldman's graph ...

There is scarcely a female in America under the age of thirty-five who didn’t have a section of her bedroom bookshelf devoted to the work of Judy Blume. Her books, like Are You There God It's Me Margaret and Then Again Maybe I Won’t, dealt frankly with things like puberty ...

Artist and multi-media professor Paras Kaul is less interested in how our brain experiences art, and more concerned about harnessing the mysteries of what's inside the brain. She uses mental electricity itself as the raw material for her work. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.