New Yorker: Out Loud Podcast
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George Packer and Ken Auletta on Silicon Valley
This week in the magazine, George Packer asks tech-industry insiders why the vast profits of the tech world have paralleled a growing disparity between rich and poor, and how they think about their social and political roles. Ken Auletta often writes about the tech industry for the magazine's Annals of Communication column. Here, Packer and Auletta talk with the editor of newyorker.com, Nicholas Thompson, about the culture and politics of Silicon Valley. Also, Deborah Treisman channels Italo...
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Emily Nussbaum on "Mad Men"
This week in the magazine, Emily Nussbaum takes a look at the latest season of "Mad Men." Here, Nussbaum talks with Sasha Weiss and Michael Agger about the show's triumphs, the problems with Don Draper's backstory, and why anti-heroes like Don dominate many of the most ambitious serial TV dramas. Also, Susan Orlean calls in from her treadmill desk.
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Rivka Galchen and Jerome Groopman on medical writing.
This week in the magazine, the novelist Rivka Galchen goes back to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where she did her medical residency, and writes about a doctor she had a rotation with, Dr. Joseph Lieber. Here, she and Jerome Groopman, who writes about medical issues for the magazine, talk about the training of doctors and about medical writing with the literary editor of newyorker.com, Sasha Weiss. Also, Joan Acocella on the new-burlesque scene.
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Ben McGrath and Roger Angell on writing about baseball.
This week in the magazine, Ben McGrath profiles the knuckleball pitcher R. A. Dickey. Here, Amy Davidson talks with McGrath and Roger Angell about the strange charms of the knuckleball (and knuckleball pitchers), and how they approach writing about baseball. Also, Ariel Levy on half-wild house cats.
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William Finnegan on the deportation of an American...
This week in the magazine, William Finnegan tells the story of Mark Lyttle, a U.S. citizen from North Carolina who was deported to Mexico despite ample evidence that he was an American. Michael Agger spoke with Finnegan and his editor, John Bennet, about Lyttle's nightmarish story and what it says about our immigration system. They also looked back at Finnegan's writing career, including his early Profile of Barack Obama and his years reporting from Africa and Mexico. Also, the cartoon...
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Burkhard Bilger on his writing career.
This week in the magazine, Burkhard Bilger writes about NASA's Curiosity rover mission. Here, Sasha Weiss talks with Bilger and his editor Cressida Leyshon about his career, which includes writing about Burmese pythons in Florida, police dogs in New York City, and short-order cooks in Las Vegas. Bilger explains how having a German engineer for a father shaped his interest in science, and how growing up in Oklahoma led to his interest into Southern subcultures (he's also written about...
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Nick Paumgarten and Deborah Treisman on James Salter.
This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten Profiles the novelist James Salter, whose first novel in thirty years, "All That Is," was published this month. Here, Nick Paumgarten and the fiction editor Deborah Treisman talk with Michael Agger about why Salter isn't better known, his recurring themes (including sex, marriage, and the heroic code of military men), and his unique prose style, which combines, as Treisman puts it, "ornateness and bluntness." Also, the night-thoughts of Lucie...
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Hisham Matar and David Remnick on returning to Libya.
This week in the magazine, novelist Hisham Matar writes about his return to Libya after decades of exile. Here, David Remnick talks with Matar about leaving Libya as a boy, his fathers imprisonment and disappearance, and returning to Libya in the wake of the Libyan revolution. Also, why more people are buying bitcoins.
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Michael Schulman on Tim Minchin.
In the magazine this week, Michael Schulman writes about Tim Minchin, the singer-songwriter-comedian who composed the music and lyrics for the musical "Matilda" (an adaptation of the Roald Dahl book), which just opened on Broadway after a celebrated run in London. Here, Schulman listens to and explains a few of the songs that made Minchin famous in his native Australia and in the U.K. Also, a phone call with Minchin himself.
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Kalefa Sanneh and Leo Carey on Dapper Dan.
This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Dapper Dan, the Harlem designer whose flashy fur-lined leather coats helped shape hip-hop style. Here, Sanneh and Leo Carey talk with Sasha Weiss about status and influence in men's fashion, as well as The New Yorker style when it comes to writing about clothes. Also, some Fung Wah blues.
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Jane Kramer on cooking and writing
This week in the magazine, Jane Kramer reviews "Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat," by the British food writer and historian Bee Wilson. It's more than a book review, though: The New Yorker's European correspondent brings into it her own passion for cooking and her years of writing about food. In this week's New Yorker Out Loud, Sasha Weiss visits Kramer in her New York apartment to talk about cooking, kitchens, and why food is so central to her life. Also, James Surowiecki...
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Jeffrey Toobin and Margaret Talbot on Ruth Bader Ginsberg
This week in the magazine, Jeffrey Toobin writes a Profile of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who even before her time on the Supreme Court played an important role in shaping the legal framework for womens rights and gender discrimination. Here Toobin and Margaret Talbot talk with Amy Davidson about Ginsburgs legacy and some of the current issues the Court is addressing. Also, fiction from a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
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John Colapinto on vocal-cord injuries
This week in the magazine, John Colapinto writes about Dr. Steven Zeitels, who has treated the vocal cords of many famous singers, including Adele, James Taylor, Cher, and Roger Daltrey. Here, Colapinto talks with Sasha Weiss about his own damaged vocal cords and the mysterious powers of the human voice. Also, David Owen on his Purell conversion.
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Alexander Stille and John Cassidy on Pope Benedict XVI
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI surprised the world by announcing his retirement, saying that he no longer had the strength for the job. Will his break with a centuries-old tradition of dying in office transform the papacyand the Church? And how about his successor? Benedict's contentious legacy is the subject of this week's New Yorker Out Loud with Alexander Stille and John Cassidy speaking with Amy Davidson. Also, a very short, romantically blighted poem.
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David Remnick and Ian Frazier on Joseph Mitchell
Joseph Mitchell started at The New Yorker in 1938, and was a staff writer for fifty-eight years, until his death in 1996. His journalism chronicled everyday life in New York Cityhe wrote about Mohawk steelworkers, fishermen, street-preachers, bartenders, ticket-takers, and bearded ladies. In the mid nineteen-sixties, he stopped publishing any work in the magazine. But apparently he never stopped writing. In this week's issue, there's a previously unpublished chapter from an unfinished memoir...
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Patrick Radden Keefe and David Grann on crime reporting.
This week in the magazine, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the Amy Bishop case. In 2010 Bishop shot and killed several colleagues at the University of Alabama. In the aftermath of that crime, it was revealed that Bishop had shot and killed her brother in 1986, which Bishop and her parents have always claimed was an accident. Here Keefe and New Yorker staff writer David Grann talk with their editor Daniel Zalewski about the Amy Bishop story, non-fiction crime writing more generally, and how...
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Simon Rich on funny writing.
This week, Simon Rich's new novella "Sell Out" is being serialized on newyorker.com. It's the story of Simon Rich's great-great-grandfather, who falls into a pickle barrel and emerges, one hundred years later, into hipster Brooklyn. On the podcast this week, Rich reads excerpts from the first installment, and then talks with Susan Morrison about the inspiration for his novella, his experiences writing for Saturday Night Live, and his love of the comedic premise, as practiced by Roald Dahl,...
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Adam Gopnik on 3-D sound studies.
This week in the magazine, Adam Gopnik tries to unravel the science behind our love of music. Here Gopnik talks with managing editor Amelia Lester about how different his own early experiences with music were from those of his children, and why the shift from vinyl and hi-fi to MP3s and earbuds isnt such a bad thing. Also, an epic out-of-office message from S.N.L. writer Colin Jost.
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James Wood and Ann Goldstein on the novels of Elena...
This week in the magazine, James Wood reviews the novels of the mysterious Italian writer "Elena Ferrante." Ferrante writes under a pseudonymalmost nothing is known about her true identity. Here Sasha Weiss talks with James Wood and Ann Goldstein, Ferrante's English translator, about her intensely personal, often brutally honest writing. Also, Rebecca Mead on season three of "Downton Abbey."
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Rachel Aviv on the medicalization of child-porn users...
This week in the magazine, Rachel Aviv looks at the medicalization of child-porn users and pedophiles. Here Aviv talks with Sasha Weiss about her interest in the subject, as well as about other articles she has written on socially marginalized, compromised, or despised people. Also, Gregory Buck compares the mathematics of winter to the mathematics of summer.
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Daniel Mendelsohn on the books that changed his life.
This week in the magazine, Mendelsohn writes about his boyhood correspondence with the novelist Mary Renault. Here Mendelsohn talks with Sasha Weiss about how Renault's novels helped him negotiate his own sexuality, and also led to his career as a writer and classicist. Mendelsohn also talks about how his own criticism, which brings a classicists perspective to bear on modern culture, shares similar goals as Renault's novelizations of ancient Greece.
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David Denby and Dexter Filkins discuss torture in the...
Last week in the magazine, Dexter Filkins wrote a Talk of the Town piece about Kathryn Bigelow, the director of "Zero Dark Thirty," and this week David Denby has a review of the film. Here, Denby and Filkins talk with Susan Morrison about the film and the controversy surrounding its depiction of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Also, Alex Koppelman on the best conspiracy theories of 2012.
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John Lahr talks with Deborah Treisman about his career...
After twenty years as The New Yorker's senior drama critic, John Lahr is stepping down (although he will still write Profiles for the magazine). Here Lahr talks with his editor Deborah Treisman about growing up in the showbiz world of his father, Bert Lahr; the role of theatre (and critics) in our culture; and the playwrights that have been important to him. Also: 2012 book recommendations from Louis Menand, Judith Thurman, and Marisa Silver.
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Ken Auletta and Amelia Lester on Elisabeth Murdoch
This week in the magazine, Ken Auletta profiles Elisabeth Murdoch, the daughter of Rupert. Here Auletta talks with Amelia Lester and Nicholas Thompson about the phone-hacking scandal, Elisabeth's critical take on News Corp., and which of Rupert's children might win the Murdoch throne. Also, Thomas Beller on how smartphone photography is affecting our memory.
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Calvin Trillin and Amelia Lester on what our food says...
This week in the magazine, Calvin Trillin writes about the eating pleasures to be had in Oaxaca, Mexico. Here, Trillin joins Lester and Sasha Weiss to talk about current food trends, what they look for in a restaurant, and how the Immigration Act of 1965 revolutionized eating in America. Also, Joan Acocella on why so many good novels end badly.
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Nick Paumgarten and Sasha Frere-Jones delve into the...
This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten explores the lure and lore of the colossal Grateful Dead recording archive. Here Paumgarten talks with Sasha Frere-Jones and Sasha Weiss about his own history as a Grateful Dead fan and tape collector, and what it is about the recordings that still captivates him. Also, Avi Steinberg on the fear of floods in the age of global warming.
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Kelefa Sanneh on Kid Rock.
This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh profiles the genre-jumping musician Kid Rock, who got his start in hip-hop, went platinum with rap-rock, and then transitioned into country music. Here Sanneh listens to Kid Rock's music with Curtis Fox and talks about how his early years in Detroit's hip-hop scene shaped his identity as a country-rocker. Also, Donald Hall on what reading poetry has in common with oral sex (spoiler: vowels).
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Alex Ross and Hilton Als on gay culture
In this week's issue, Alex Ross reflects on the gay community's extraordinary political progress in recent decades. For The New Yorker Out Loud, Ross and Hilton Als talk with Sasha Weiss about what increasing assimilation means for gay culture. Also, George Saunders confesses his love for Ayn Rand.
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Dexter Filkins and George Packer on the legacy of Iraq
In the current issue of The New Yorker, Dexter Filkins writes about an ex-Marine seeking forgiveness from the family of the Iraqi civilians his unit killed. Here Filkins talks with Nicholas Thompson and George Packer about the ongoing effects of the Iraq War on those who were there, and why the rest of the country has yet to deal with the legacy of a war we largely ignored. Also: Hilton Als on the Barbra Streisand persona.
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George Packer and Larissa MacFarquhar discuss the...
This week in the magazine, George Packer profiles the political operative Jeff Connaughton, whose long career in Washington provides an insider's view on how lobbyists and money drive the political process. Here Packer talks with Larissa MacFarquhar and Sasha Weiss about the underlying problems with our political culture and why Obama's bipartisan aspirations have completely failed. Also: the personal blog of Jean-Paul Sartre, and sexy Irish outlaws.
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Peter Schjeldahl and Evan Osnos on Ai Weiwei
In the current issue, Peter Schjeldahl reviews a retrospective of the work of Ai Weiwei, the international art star and political provocateur, at the Hirshhorn Museum, in Washington, D.C. Here Schjeldahl talks with Sasha Weiss and Evan Osnos, who profiled Ai Weiwei for the magazine two years ago. Also: What to do about dead cats, and David Sedaris on his stuffed dog.
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Larissa MacFarquhar and James Wood discuss Hilary Mantel.
This week in the magazine, Larissa MacFarquhar writes about novelist Hilary Mantel. Here she talks about why Mantel is such a remarkable writer with Sasha Weiss and James Wood, who reviewed Mantel last spring for the magazine. Also, George Saunders on his troubles keeping a diary.
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John Seabrook writes about the Korean pop-music industry.
This week in the magazine, John Seabrook writes about the Korean pop-music industry. Here Seabrook talks with Sasha Weiss about why K-pop is so popular throughout Asia and why he was smitten by its cheerful vocals and synchronized dancing. Also, Paul Rudnick channels Mrs. Jesus Christ.
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Margaret Talbot on nineteen-thirties Hollywood.
This week in the magazine, Margaret Talbot writes about the Hollywood of her father, Lyle Talbot, who appeared in hundreds of films opposite the likes of Ginger Rogers and Carole Lombard. Here Talbot talks with Richard Brody and Michael Agger about Talbot's pre-code Hollywood films, why he never became a big star, and what it was like to grow up with a father in the movies. Also, Emily Nussbaum on "Treme."
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Robert Mankoff on Nipplegate.
In this week's New Yorker Out Loud podcast, the magazine's cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, discusses the recent Nipplegate incident, in which a cartoon portraying Adam and Eve got the New Yorker temporarily banned from Facebook. Mankoff talks with Michael Agger and Mick Stevens, the cartoonist behind the offending cartoon, about the curious history of nipples in the magazine. Mankoff and Stevens also discuss the advantages of cartoon cliches like Adam and Eve, how cartoonists practice their...
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D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace.
This week, D. T. Max has been writing on Page-Turner about documents and artifacts he drew on for "Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story," his recently published biography of David Foster Wallace. Here Max talks with Sasha Weiss about the challenges of writing about Wallace, and how Wallace, who once described himself as "an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding" might feel about his biography.
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Ariel Levy and Judith Thurman on Naomi Wolf's book...
This week in the magazine, Ariel Levy reviews Naomi Wolf's book "Vagina: A New Biography." Here Levy talks with Judith Thurman and Sasha Weiss about how this book is similar to "Fifty Shades of Grey." Also, Thomas Beller on the agony and ecstasy of parking in New York City.
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Sarah Stillman on confidential informants.
This week in the magazine, Sarah Stillman writes about people conscripted by the police to work as confidential informants, often at great personal risk. Here Stillman joins Evan Ratliff, who has also written about confidential informants, in a conversation with Nicholas Thompson about why law enforcement relies on C.I.s, and what kinds of oversight and controls are needed to ensure their safety. Also, tips from Paul Simms on how to win a conversation.
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Oliver Sacks on what he's learned from hallucinogenic...
This week in the magazine, Oliver Sacks looks back at his experiences with drugs in the early nineteen-sixties. Here Sacks talks with John Bennet and Sasha Weiss about some of his drug-induced hallucinations, how his interest in neurology connects to his experimentation with drugs, and how one drug experience led to his writing career. Also, Jeremy Eichler on the violinist Christian Tetzlaff, and Ian Frazier on the origins of The Cursing Mommy.
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Adam Gopnik and Avi Steinberg on how Mormonism is going...
In the August 13th & 20th issue, Adam Gopnik looks at the history of Mormonism and its place in American life. Here Gopnik talks with Sasha Weiss and Avi Steinberg, who is currently writing a book that explores the Book of Mormon by visiting sites from the Mormon story. They discuss the history of Mormonism, how the church has managed to move from a fringe religious movement into a more mainstream position, and what Mormonism can tell us about Mitt Romney. Also, Lauren Collins takes...
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David Remnick on Bruce Springsteen.
In the July 30th issue of the magazine, David Remnick profiles Bruce Springsteen. Here Nicholas Thompson talks with David Remnick and Kelefa Sanneh about how Springsteen reconciles his songs about working-class struggles with his own success, and why Springsteens nostalgic brand of rock and roll has aged so well. Also, Sarah Payne Stuart answers questions about her home town of Concord, Massachusetts, and excerpts from a coming-of-age story by Simon Rich, as told by a condom.
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Jack Hitt on forensic linguistics.
In the July 23rd issue of the magazine, Jack Hitt reports on the increasing use of forensic linguistics in criminal proceedings. Here Hitt talks with Sasha Weiss about what forensic linguistics can tell us about how we communicate. Also, Joan Acocella discusses violence in fairy tales, and Michael Cunningham reflects on why there was no Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year.
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Dexter Filkins and Steve Coll on our failure in...
In the July 9th and 16th issue of the magazine, Dexter Filkins reports from Afghanistan as the U.S. prepares to withdraw. He joins Steve Coll and Nicholas Thompson to talk about what went wrong and why the future looks so grim for Afghans. Also, Deborah Treisman and Peter Canby explain why the magazine fact-checks its fiction.
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Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Agger on spoiled kids;...
In the July 2nd issue of the magazine, Elizabeth Kolbert explores why American parents are spoiling their children. Kolbert joins Michael Agger in a conversation about helicopter parents, getting your kids to clean their rooms, and the importance of ignoring your child. Also, David Remnick talks with John McPhee about printing swear words in the magazine, and Patricia Marx explains the University of Chicago's epic scavenger hunt.
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Ken Auletta and Leo Carey talk to Sasha Weiss about the...
In the June 25th issue of the magazine, Ken Auletta writes about the e-book pricing battle taking place between book publishers and Amazon. Auletta joins Leo Carey in a conversation with Sasha Weiss about the effect of e-books on the publishing industry, writers, and readers. Also, Sasha Frere-Jones answers questions about noise music.
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Nicholas Thompson talks with Mattathias Schwartz about a...
Last week, the Jamaican drug trafficker Christopher Coke was sentenced in U.S. federal court to twenty-three years in prison. In 2010, at least seventy-three people died in Kingston in the operation to capture and extradite Coke. Mattathias Schwartz wrote about the raid in the December 6, 2011, issue of the magazine, and has blogged about the recent developments in the story. Here Nicholas Thompson talks with Schwartz about the massacre and the U.S. governments role in the operation that led...
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Steve Coll explains to John Cassidy and Nicholas...
In the wake of Facebook's troubled I.P.O., Steve Coll quit Facebook. On this week's New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Coll talks with John Cassidy and Nicholas Thompson about how Facebook's goals of community and transparency aren't reflected in the way it does business.
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Deborah Treisman talks with Jennifer Egan about her...
This week's issue of the magazine is the Science Fiction issue. Here Deborah Treisman talks with Jennifer Egan about her story "Black Box," written as a series of Tweets. And Jonathan Lethem, Junot Diaz, and Sam Lipsyte share their science-fiction thoughts and book recommendations.
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Arthur Krystal, Deborah Treisman, and Sasha Weiss...
This week in the magazine, Arthur Krystal looks at the porous boundaries between pulp, genre, and literary fiction. Here Krystal talks with Deborah Treisman and Sasha Weiss about how seriously we should take fiction that aims only to entertain. Plus, the cultural guilty pleasures of an avant-garde poet and two New Yorker staff writers.
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James Wood and Richard Brody on the film and literature...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Peter Hessler explains how not to get picked in a police lineup, and James Wood and Richard Brody consider the literature and cinema of the Holocaust, from Laurent Binet's "HHhH" to Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah."
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Michael Specter and Elizabeth Kolbert discuss whether we...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Nick Paumgarten describes a future where drones deliver tacos, and Michael Specter and Elizabeth Kolbert consider geoengineering solutions to climate change.
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Ariel Levy and Kelefa Sanneh talk about women's Olympic...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Rick Moody explains "The Unreliable Global Positioning System," and Ariel Levy and Kelefa Sanneh talk about the cultural complications of women's boxing.
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Ken Auletta on Stanford and the tech companies that...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Ian McEwan talks with Deborah Treisman about spy recruitment in nineteen-seventies England, and Ken Auletta talks with Nicholas Thompson about the strange symbiotic relationship between Silicon Valley and Stanford University.
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Jerome Groopman on promising new cancer therapies.
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Alex Ross recalls the man who knew everybody, and Jerome Groopman explains the promise of a new way to use the immune system to fight cancer.
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Lauren Collins and Burkhard Bilger on reporting in...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Patty Marx talks couch-surfing, John Michaud looks back at some of the great travel writing in The New Yorker archive, and Nicholas Thompson talks with Lauren Collins and Burkhard Bilger about some of their far-flung correspondence.
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Sasha Frere-Jones and John Bennet discuss their tweeting...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, New Yorker writers and editors talk about the ethics of having children, and Nick Thompson chats with Sasha Frere-Jones and John Bennet about Twitter.
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Joan Acocella on how believers talk to God.
This week in the magazine, Joan Acocella reviews T. M. Luhrmann's "When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God." Here Acocella talks to Blake Eskin about Luhrmann's scientific yet sympathetic approach to intense religious experience, and how Acocella first started writing about religion.
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John Seabrook on the producers and writers behind Top 40...
This week in the magazine, John Seabrook writes about how Top Forty songs are produced. Here Seabrook talks with Blake Eskin about the producer duo Stargate and the songwriter Ester Dean, who've created hit singles for Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, among others, as well as about who controls the radio dial in Seabrook's car.
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Francisco Goldman on the legacy of Argentina's Dirty War
This week in the magazine, Francisco Goldman writes about the heirs to the Argentine media company Clarn, and the attempt to establish whether they are the biological children of those who were disappeared in the country's Dirty War. Here Goldman talks with Blake Eskin about the Dirty War, the decades-long search for the children of the disappeared, and what finding them has meant for the children and for the country as a whole.
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Michael Specter on the dangers of studying bird flu
This week in the magazine, Michael Specter writes about the Dutch scientist Ron Fouchier, who created a virulent strain of bird flu. Here Specter talks with Blake Eskin about Fouchier's scientific goals, why some critics think his research shouldn't be published, and why suppressing such research could be more dangerous.
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Nicholas Schmidle on an international arms dealer
This week in the magazine, Nicholas Schmidle writes about the capture and trial of the arms trafficker Viktor Bout. Here Schmidle talks with Blake Eskin about Bout's rise and fall, how Bout sees the world, and what draws Schmidle to write about criminals like Bout.
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Julia Ioffe on a Russian Billionaire's Presidential...
This week in the magazine, Julia Ioffe writes about the presidential campaign of the Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Here Ioffe talks with Blake Eskin about Prokhorov's entry into politics, the recent outbreak of anti-Putin protests, and reporting from Russia in interesting times.
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Jonathan Franzen on Edith Wharton's New York
This week in the magazine, Jonathan Franzen writes about three of his favorite Edith Wharton novels. Here Franzen talks with Blake Eskin about Wharton's biography, her fascination with money and beauty, and her influence on Franzen's own writing.
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Emily Nussbaum on the renaissance in children's...
This week in the magazine, Emily Nussbaum writes about "Miffy and Friends," "Ni Hao, Kai-Lan," "Phineas and Ferb," and other children's television shows. Here Nussbaum talks with Blake Eskin about the boom in creative new programming for children, the differences between childish and adult tastes, and the trouble with having a television policy.
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The pianist Jeremy Denk on recording an album.
This week in the magazine, the pianist Jeremy Denk writes about recording Charles Ives's "Concord" Sonata. Here he talks with Blake Eskin about the joys and frustrations of recording music, and listens to some alternate takes from the Ives sessions.
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Jonah Lehrer on how to stimulate group creativity
This week in the magazine, Jonah Lehrer looks at the science behind teamwork. Here Lehrer talks with Blake Eskin about why brainstorming doesn't work, and why encouraging criticism and coffee breaks does.
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Donald Hall looks at his barn, and back through time
This week in the magazine, Donald Hall writes about growing old in the New Hampshire farmhouse where his family has lived since the end of the Civil War. Here he talks with Blake Eskin about how this place inspires his writing, why he's stopped writing poetry, and what it's like living among so many memories and stories.
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John Seabrook on the future of video and television
This week in the magazine, John Seabrook looks at how YouTube is trying to grow. Here Seabrook talks to Blake Eskin about YouTube's new initiative to foster original programming, and what it might mean for the future of television.
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Peter Hessler on an American crime reporter in Japan
This week in the magazine, Peter Hessler profiles Jake Adelstein, an American who reports on organized crime in Japan. Here Hessler talks with Blake Eskin about the yakuza, and how his own experiences as a reporter abroad compare to Adelstein's.
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Blake Eskin on his favorite Out Loud podcasts from 2011
Blake Eskin surveys some of his favorite Out Loud podcasts from the past twelve months.
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Burkhard Bilger on desertification.
This week in the magazine, Burkhard Bilger travels to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to see some of the techniques people are using to fight desertification. Here Blake Eskin talks with Bilger about his visit to the Sahel, and how farmers there are using agroforestry to grow crops and keep the Sahara at bay.
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Alex Ross on Don Carlo Gesualdo
This week in the magazine, Alex Ross writes about the Renaissance prince and composer Don Carlo Gesualdo. Here Ross talks to Blake Eskin about Gesualdo's visionary music and violent life, with excerpts from "Felice Primavera," performed by Marco Longhini and Delitiae Musicae, "Moro, lasso," performed by Concerto Italiano, and the Responsoria cycle, performed by the Hilliard Ensemble.
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David Denby on the best and worst films of the season
This week in the magazine, David Denby reviews "The Adventures of Tintin" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." Here Denby talks with Blake Eskin about those films and other end-of-year releases looking for adult audiences and award nominations.
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Walking About Town
The Going On About Town section of the The New Yorker is now available as a free app for iPhone and Android smart phones. Along with event listings and reviews, the Goings On app also includes audio tours. Here Blake Eskin previews excerpts of Calvin Trillin's eating tour of lower Manhattan, Patricia Marx's tour of the vintage shops of SoHo, Peter Schjeldahl at the Frick Collection, and Paul Goldberger on the High Line.
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Emily Nussbaum on the pleasures of television
This week in the magazine, Emily Nussbaum writes about Whitney Cummings, who stars in the television show "Whitney," and is also the co-creator of "2 Broke Girls." Here Nussbaum talks with Blake Eskin about what doesn't work about these two shows, and why she loves writing about television.
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Thomas Mallon on alternative history in fiction
This week in the magazine, Thomas Mallon writes about alternative history--fiction in which the South wins the Civil War, and J.F.K. lives. Here Mallon talks with Blake Eskin about how writing alt-history can be more challenging than writing a historical novel, and which moment from the past Mallon would most like to change.
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Jill Lepore on birth control, abortion, and American...
This week in the magazine, Jill Lepore writes about the history of Planned Parenthood. Here Lepore talks with Blake Eskin about why Margaret Sanger started the American Birth Control League, why many conservatives supported Planned Parenthood for decades, and how an organization that set out to prevent abortions came to provide them--and found itself in the political crosshairs.
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Daniel Mendelsohn on a slimmer, faster Iliad
This week in the magazine, Daniel Mendelsohn reviews a new, slimmer version of Homer's Iliad, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Here Mendelsohn talks with Blake Eskin about where this new translation fits into the age-old argument over the authorship of the Iliad, and what's at stake.
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Mark Alan Stamaty on storytelling, cartoons, and his...
This week in the magazine, cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty remembers growing up with two cartoonist parents. Here Blake Eskin talks with Stamaty about the shift from gag cartoons and the rise of undergound comics, and about what motivates his own work, be it a children's book or a political satire.
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Elif Batuman on biodiversity and birdwatching in...
This week in the magazine, Elif Batuman travels to Kars, a city in northeastern Turkey, to visit an ornithologist. Here Blake Eskin talks with Batuman about the history of Kars, the challenges facing wildlife there, and how the human world and the natural world are interwoven.
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Michael Specter on an alternative to the war on drugs
This week in the magazine, Michael Specter looks at Portugal a decade after it decriminalized personal drug use. Here Specter talks with Blake Eskin about why it makes sense to treat drug abuse as a public-health problem rather than a crime, and what lessons the U.S. could take from Portugal's example.
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Akash Kapur on modernization and rural life
This week in the magazine, Akash Kapur visits a shandy, or cow market, to see how India's economic rise is changing rural life. Here Kapur talks with Blake Eskin about how difficult it's become to make a living as a cow broker, how the place where he grew up has been transformed, and what its like to raise his own children there.
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John Colapinto on the business of naming
This week in the magazine, John Colapinto writes about the art and science of brand names, and Lexicon Branding, the company behind names such as BlackBerry, PowerBook, and Swiffer. Here Blake Eskin talks with Colapinto about the naming process, and what makes a good or bad name.
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Jenny Diski on shoplifting
This week in the magazine, Jenny Diski reviews Rachel Shteir's new cultural history of shoplifting, "The Steal." Here Diski talks with Blake Eskin about her own history of shoplifting, why people assume that women shoplift more than men, and the recent London riots.
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Ariel Levy on sexual revolutions
This week in the magazine, Ariel Levy writes about Wilhelm Reich, the creator of the orgone box, and some of the sexual revolutions that preceded him. Here Blake Eskin talks with Levy about Reich's idea that sexual health leads to social health, why all sexual revolutions think they have discovered something new, and how our current cultural moment isn't as sexually fulfilling as it appears to be.
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Matteo Pericoli on drawing Manhattan, before and after...
In 1998, the architect Matteo Pericoli started drawing the Manhattan skyline, building by building, on two thirty-seven-foot scrolls. A section of Pericoli's drawing, showing lower Manhattan from the west, ran in The New Yorker in 1999. For the 10th anniversary of September 11th, Pericoli drew that same section of the skyline again, and you can compare the two drawings in this week's issue of the magazine. Here Pericoli talks about his relationship to New York City, his drawing process, and...
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Jay Rubin on working with Haruki Murakami
In the September 5th issue of the magazine, Haruki Murakami has a piece of fiction called "Town of Cats." Here Blake Eskin talks with Murakami's longtime translator Jay Rubin about how he became a Murakami fan and translator, the reception in Japan of Murakami's latest novel, "1Q84," and why Rubin doesn't recommend reading literature in translation.
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Sasha Frere-Jones listens to Shabazz Palaces.
This week in the magazine, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about Shabazz Palaces, a hip-hop group led by the rapper Ishmael Butler. Here Frere-Jones talks with Blake Eskin about Butler's early work with Digable Planets and about jazz in early-nineties hip-hop.
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Blake Eskin visits Katharine and E. B. White's...
Blake Eskin visits the salt-water farm in Brooklin, Maine, that used to belong to Katharine and E. B. White, until it was sold after his death in 1985. Mary Gallant, who with her husband, Robert, purchased the property from the Whites, points out features of the farm that readers of "Charlotte's Web" would recognize, and talks about how her family has made it their own in the twenty-five years they have owned it.
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Tom Bissell on Jennifer Hale and the "Mass Effect"...
This week in the magazine, Tom Bissell writes about the voice-over actress Jennifer Hale. Here Bissell talks with Blake Eskin about Hale's performance as Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect video games, and why Bissell prefers playing with a female avatar. Hale joins the conversation to demonstrate some of her voice-over techniques, including the finer points of grunting.
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Stephen Greenblatt on Lucretius and his poem "On the...
This week in the magazine, Stephen Greenblatt explains how Lucretius and his poem "On the Nature of Things" shaped the modern world. Here Greenblatt reads a passage from John Dryden's translation of "On the Nature of Things," and talks with Blake Eskin about how the poem disappeared for a thousand years, how it was rediscovered, and the clash between Lucretius' ideas and the Catholic church--and also Greenblatt's Jewish mother.
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Suketu Mehta on illegal immigrants
This week in the magazine, Suketu Mehta writes about an African woman who described a rape that never happened in order to gain asylum in the United States. Here Mehta talks with Blake Eskin about why the asylum process encourages embellishment, the ethics of lying to gain asylum, and the multiple identities that illegal immigrants juggle.
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Calvin Trillin on the Freedom Riders.
This week in the magazine, Calvin Trillin remembers reporting on the Freedom Rides, a civil-rights campaign aimed at demonstrating the illegal segregation of interstate bus travel. Here Trillin talks with Blake Eskin about starting out as a rookie reporter in the South in 1961, his decision to get on the bus with the Freedom Riders, and how the tense confrontations he witnessed could also be darkly humorous.
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Philip Gourevitch on the Rwandan national cycling team
This week in the magazine, Philip Gourevitch writes about the Rwandan national cycling team. Here Gourevitch talks with Blake Eskin about what the team means for Rwanda and for the individual riders, who were children during the 1994 genocide.
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Ben McGrath and Amy Davidson on Super Sam Fuld
This week in the magazine, Ben McGrath profiles Sam Fuld, an outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. Here Blake Eskin talks with McGrath and Amy Davidson about how Fuld's physique and style of play hearken back to the nineteen-eighties, and about the agony of being a Mets fan.
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Nicholas Lemann on city living
This week in the magazine, Nicholas Lemann writes about the blurry line between city and suburbs. Here Lemann talks with Blake Eskin about what the recent enthusiasm for cities misses, and what--if anything--makes cities special.
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Susan Morrison, Nick Paumgarten, and Lizzie Widdicombe...
"The Talk of the Town: 50 Interesting People" is available on newsstands and on the New Yorker app for the iPad. Here Blake Eskin talks with the editor of the section, Susan Morrison, and Talk writers Nick Paumgarten and Lizzie Widdicombe, about different types of Talk piecesthe Visit, the Amateur Ichthyologist, the Past Sports Lives of Important Political Figuresand why there aren't more Talk stories about hockey.
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The translators Brian Boyd and Olga Voronina on...
This week's magazine has a selection of letters written by Vladimir Nabokov to his wife, Vera, while on a college lecture tour in 1942, translated by Brian Boyd and Olga Voronina. Here Blake Eskin talks with Boyd and Voronina about how Nabokov's letters compare to his fiction, and why letter writing was an essential part of the Nabokovs' long marriage.
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Ariel Levy on Italian men, women, and prime ministers
This week in the magazine, Ariel Levy writes about Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is embroiled in a growing sex scandal. Here Levy talks with Blake Eskin about Berlusconi's rise to power, gender politics in Italy, and why disclosures about the Italian leader's decadent parties and sexual behavior may have finally exhausted the tolerance of the nation.
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Rachel Aviv on patients who deny their mental illness
This week in the magazine, Rachel Aviv chronicles the story of Linda Bishop, a mentally ill woman who would not admit she was sick. Here Aviv talks with Blake Eskin about the relationship between insight--acknowledging ones mental illness--and health, the dangers of insisting on such acknowledgments, and the challenges of writing about Bishop and the mentally ill.
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Michael Specter on lab-grown meat
This week in the magazine, Michael Specter writes about the progress scientists have made in developing in-vitro meat. Here he talks to Blake Eskin about the strong arguments in favor of lab meat and overcoming initial reactions to the concept.
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John Seabrook on obesity and snacking
This week in the magazine, John Seabrook writes about Indra Nooyi, the C.E.O. of PepsiCo. Here Seabrook talks with Blake Eskin about how the country's largest food and beverage company is trying to make healthier snacks and soft drinks, and whether the company is primarily concerned with the health of consumers or with its own longevity.
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Kelefa Sanneh on reality television
This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about reality television. Here Sanneh talks with Blake Eskin about the evolution of the genre from "An American Family" to "The Bad Girls Club," why unscripted television gets so little respect, and what reality shows reveal about society.
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Lauren Collins on the British royal wedding
This week in the magazine, Lauren Collins writes about the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Here Collins talks with Blake Eskin about whether the British are more excited about the wedding or getting a long weekend, and how American attitudes toward the Royal Family and toward the Middletons differ from British ones.
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Alex Ross listens to Wagner's "Die Walkure"
This week in the magazine, Alex Ross writes about Richard Wagner's "Ring," focussing in on ten haunting measures from Act II of "Die Walkre," the second opera of the four-part cycle. Here Ross listens to the mysterious interlude with Blake Eskin and discusses some of its possible meanings, and how the music demonstrates the humanistic side of the controversial composer.
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Nancy Franklin on the return of "Upstairs Downstairs"
This week in the magazine, Nancy Franklin reviews the sequel to "Upstairs Downstairs." Here Franklin talks with Blake Eskin about her fondness for the original Upstairs Downstairs and how the British imports on Masterpiece Theater were once the best thing on television.
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Laura Miller on the epic fantasy author George R. R....
This week in the magazine, Laura Miller writes about the epic fantasy author George R. R. Martin and his relationship with his fans, who have been waiting (some not so patiently) for his latest novel in the series "A Song of Ice and Fire" for almost six years. Here Miller talks with Blake Eskin about how Martin fosters such intense relationships with his fans, and what lessons literary novelists can draw from Martin's example.
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Adam Gopnik on human and computer intelligence
This week in the magazine, Adam Gopnik looks at memory, intelligence, and the shrinking advantage humans have over computers. In this interview, Gopnik takes questions from Blake Eskin and from the artificial intelligence known as Cleverbot. Gopnik and Eskin examine the layers of tone and meaning to be found in human speech that remain, like, you know, difficult for, um, computers to understand.
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Alexandra Jacobs on Spanx
This week in the magazine, Alexandra Jacobs profiles the founder of the shapewear company Spanx, Sara Blakely. Here Jacobs talks with Blake Eskin about how Blakely has used humor, sex, and new technology to make foundation garments for women stylish again, and what the success of Spanx says about how Americansmen as well as womenthink about and take care of their bodies.
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Ian Frazier on his urban wanderings
Ian Frazier on his urban wanderings.
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David Denby on the films of Abbas Kiarostami
David Denby on the films of Abbas Kiarostami.
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Elif Batuman on Turkish soccer fans
Elif Batuman on Turkish soccer fans.
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Tad Friend on the asteroid threat
Tad Friend on the asteroid threat.
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Adam Gopnik on the Internet revolution
Adam Gopnik on the Internet revolution.
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Lawrence Wright talks about Paul Haggis and Scientology
Lawrence Wright talks about Paul Haggis and Scientology.
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Francisco Goldman on the death of his wife
Francisco Goldman on the death of his wife.
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Elizabeth Kolbert and Evan Osnos on the tiger-mother...
Elizabeth Kolbert and Evan Osnos on the tiger-mother furor.
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Jon Lee Anderson on Sri Lanka
Jon Lee Anderson on Sri Lanka.
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Evan Osnos on psychoanalysis in China
Evan Osnos on psychoanalysis in China.
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Adam Gopnik on the state of dessert.
Adam Gopnik on the state of dessert.
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Peter Hessler on a Peace Corps volunteer's experience in...
Peter Hessler on a Peace Corps volunteer's experience in Washington.
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John Cassidy on how Chinese state capitalism takes after...
John Cassidy on how Chinese state capitalism takes after the U.S. and Europe.
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Gay Talese on the soprano Marina Poplavskaya
Gay Talese on the soprano Marina Poplavskaya.
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James Wood on the unhinged power of Keith Moon
James Wood on the unhinged power of Keith Moon.
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Burkhard Bilger on the underground food movement
Burkhard Bilger on the underground food movement.
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Judith Thurman on Cleopatra
Judith Thurman on Cleopatra.
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Jianying Zha on the writer Wang Meng
Jianying Zha on the writer Wang Meng.
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Roz Chast on her career at The New Yorker
Roz Chast on her career at The New Yorker.
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Lauren Collins on the Tories' new philosophy
Lauren Collins on the Tories' new philosophy.
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William Finnegan on a Tijuana police chief's campaign...
William Finnegan on a Tijuana police chief's campaign against corruption.
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Henry Bromell on writing
Henry Bromell, from short stories to "Rubicon."
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Evan Osnos on the Dalai Lama
Evan Osnos on the Dalai Lama.
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Rebecca Mead on staging F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great...
Rebecca Mead on staging F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Louis Menand on the pleasure of parody
Louis Menand on the pleasure of parody.
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Judith Thurman on Roland Barthes, writer and son.
Judith Thurman on Roland Barthes, writer and son.
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A Reporting Life
Lillian Ross remembers Hemingway, Salinger, and sixty-five years at The New Yorker.
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Oliver Sacks on living with face blindness
Oliver Sacks on living with face blindness.
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Patricia Marx on buying a car in New York
Patricia Marx on buying a car in New York.
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Sasha Frere-Jones on the changing role of record labels
Sasha Frere-Jones on the changing role of record labels.
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Nicholson Baker examines video games
Nicholson Baker examines video games.
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Kelefa Sanneh on the music of Brad Paisley
Kelefa Sanneh on the music of Brad Paisley.
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Jonathan Franzen on the slaughter of songbirds in Europe
Jonathan Franzen on the slaughter of songbirds in Europe.
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Ben McGrath on David Ortiz's career as a designated...
Ben McGrath on David Ortiz's career as a designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox.
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Barbara Demick on the experiences of North Korean...
Barbara Demick on the experiences of North Korean refugees.
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Rebecca Mead on playgrounds
Rebecca Mead on how playground design affects children's brains.
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Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer
Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer.
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Hampton Sides, Daniel Alarcon, and Burkhard Bilger on...
Hampton Sides, Daniel Alarcon, and Burkhard Bilger on the World Cup.
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Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon on the 20 Under 40...
Fiction editors Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon on The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list.
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Joan Acocella on the allure of the circus
Joan Acocella on the allure of the circus.
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William Finnegan on the Mexican crime cartel La Familia
William Finnegan on the Mexican crime cartel La Familia.
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Alec Wilkinson on Los Tigres del Norte
Alec Wilkinson on Los Tigres del Norte.
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Alex Ross on the history and future of movie music
Alex Ross on the history and future of movie music.
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John Seabrook on adopting a Haitian child after the...
John Seabrook on adopting a Haitian child after the earthquake.
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Peter Hessler and Evan Osnos on living abroad and...
Peter Hessler and Evan Osnos on living abroad and returning to America.
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Janis Bellow on the letters of Saul Bellow
Janis Bellow on the letters of her late husband, Saul Bellow.
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Elif Batuman on rediscovering lost Turkish recipes
Elif Batuman on rediscovering lost Turkish recipes.
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David Samuels investigates a gang of Balkan jewel thieves
David Samuels investigates a gang of Balkan jewel thieves.
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Adam Gopnik discusses the French culinary movement Le...
Adam Gopnik discusses the French culinary movement Le Fooding.
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Jill Lepore on disturbing origins of marriage counselling
Jill Lepore on the disturbing origins of marriage counselling.
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John McPhee on lacrosse and writing
John McPhee on lacrosse and writing.
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John Colapinto on the music of Esperanza Spalding
John Colapinto on the music of Esperanza Spalding.
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Judith Thurman on the work of Marina Abramovic
Judith Thurman on the work of Marina Abramovic.
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Louis Menand on depression
Louis Menand looks at the contradictory ways we understand and treat depression.
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George Packer and Susan Orlean on Twitter
George Packer and Susan Orlean on Twitter.
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David Remnick on the heroes of the civil-rights era
David Remnick on the heroes of the civil-rights era.
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Kelefa Sanneh on the gospel singer Tonex
Kelefa Sanneh on the gospel singer Tonex.
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Meghan O'Rourke on grief
The cultural history of mourning and grief.
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Daniel Mendelsohn on memoirs
Personal confessions, from St. Augustine to James Frey.
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Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel
Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel in translation.
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John Cassidy on the Chicago School and the financial...
How economists are responding to the financial crisis.
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David Denby and Richard Brody on their favorite films of...
David Denby and Richard Brody discuss their favorite films of the year and the decade.
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Fen Montaigne on Adlie penguins
Fen Montaigne discusses the five months he spent working alongside the ecologist Bill Fraser, studying the declining Adlie penguin populations in Antarctica.
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John McWhorter on Louis Armstrong
John McWhorter discusses Louis Armstrong's unchanging musical style, the controversy over his public persona, and the underestimation of his genius.
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Platon on photographing world leaders
Platon discusses his portfolio of portraits of world leaders.
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Ariel Levy on Caster Semenya
Ariel Levy discusses the controversy over Caster Semenyas gender, and the implications of her story for sports and society.
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Calvin Trillin on poutine
Calvin Trillin and Blake Eskin visit the New York restaurant T Poutine to sample and discuss poutine, a Canadian concoction of French fries, gravy, and cheese curds.
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Margaret Talbot on nightmares
Margaret Talbot discusses imagery-rehearsal therapy, which helps patients to edit their nightmares into more benign dreams
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Lawrence Wright on Israel and Hamas
Lawrence Wright talks to Blake Eskin about the violent conflict between Israel and Hamas and the difficulties he faced in reporting.
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Robert Mankoff and Zachary Kanin on cartoons
Robert Mankoff and Zachary Kanin discuss Cartoon Kit, the Caption Contest, vampires, and how both guests found their voices as cartoonists.
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Sasha Frere-Jones on hip-hop
Sasha Frere-Jones discusses the future of hip-hop.
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Rebecca Mead and Daniel Zalewski on children's books
Rebecca Mead and Daniel Zalewski discuss books for children and young adults.
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Jill Lepore on scientific management
Jill Lepore talks about the pioneers of scientific management, Frederick Winslow Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.
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Robert Polidori on the UN
Robert Polidori discusses the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations.
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Adam Gopnik on Alfred Dreyfus
Adam Gopnik talks about Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer arrested in 1894 for espionage in France.
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Critics on fall highlights
John Lahr, Peter Schjeldahl, and Nancy Franklin discuss the fall season's theatre, art, and television highlights.
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Alexandra Jacobs on Zappos
Alexandra Jacobs talks about the online shoe store Zappos.
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David Grann on Cameron Todd Willingham
David Grann talks about Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004 for setting a fire that killed his three children.
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Burkhard Bilger on Bob and Mike Bryan
Burkhard Bilger talks about Bob and Mike Bryan, identical twins who are champion tennis partners.
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Alex Ross on fictional music
Alex Ross talks about the fictional music of composers in literature.
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John Seabrook on rock concerts
John Seabrook talks about the history of the rock-concert industry.
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Ian Frazier on Siberia
Ian Frazier discusses his road trip across Siberia.
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Kelefa Sanneh on Michael Savage
Kelefa Sanneh on talk-show host Michael Savage.
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Larissa MacFarquhar on kidney donation
Larissa MacFarquhar on the issues surrounding kidney donation.
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Paul Rudnick on Hollywood and nuns
Paul Rudnick on Hollywood and nuns.
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Raffi Khatchadourian on war crimes
Raffi Khatchadourian on a war crime in Iraq.
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Jill Lepore on parenthood
Jill Lepore on parenthood.
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Lauren Collins on Nora Roberts
Lauren Collins on Nora Roberts and the history of the romance novel.
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Sasha Frere-Jones on summer jams
Sasha Frere-Jones shares his all-time favorite summer jam, and discusses some of the current songs and artists he's excited about.
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Louis Menand on writing workshops
Louis Menand talks about writing workshops.
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Elizabeth Kolbert on mass extinctions
Elizabeth Kolbert on the history of mass extinctions.
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