The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
Tuesday 22 June 2021 : In the years leading up to the horrific Tulsa massacre of 1921, the Greenwood district was a thriving Black metropolis, a city within a...
Friday 18 June 2021 : In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett. He wrote that Bennett was something new in Israeli politics, a man who...
Monday 14 June 2021 : The largest Protestant denomination in America is in crisis over the group’s reluctance to acknowledge systemic racism; our reporter talks...
Friday 11 June 2021 : It’s easy to see why the director Jon M. Chu was adamant that the release of “In the Heights” wait until this summer, when more people...
Tuesday 08 June 2021 : Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax have both been playing Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major for over forty years. But it took a global...
Friday 04 June 2021 : The staff writer Patricia Marx checks out the new vaccinated sections at New York’s Major League Baseball parks. The author and activist...
Tuesday 01 June 2021 : We look back on the year since the murder of George Floyd galvanized the nation. David Remnick talks with Vanita Gupta, the No. 3 official...
Friday 28 May 2021 : Spike Lee is one of the most passionate and committed fans of the New York Knicks—not to mention one of the most celebrated filmmakers of...
Friday 21 May 2021 : By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of...
Tuesday 18 May 2021 : The Tulsa massacre of 1921 was a coördinated assault on and destruction of the thriving Black community known as Greenwood, Black Wall...
Tuesday 11 May 2021 : When a very long year of doing business from home—in sweatshirts and pajamas and slippers—is over, how much effort will people be...
Friday 07 May 2021 : After a year of battling COVID-19, parts of the United States are celebrating a gradual turn toward normalcy, but the pandemic isn’t...
Tuesday 04 May 2021 : Thomas McGuane reads his story from the May 10, 2021, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction,...
Tuesday 04 May 2021 : “The Agitators” is a book about three women—three revolutionaries—who changed the world at a time when women weren’t supposed to...
Friday 30 April 2021 : In June, the director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense are expected to deliver a report about what the government knows...
Tuesday 27 April 2021 : Nearly a century ago, during the Spanish Civil War, a group of parents put five hundred of their children on a boat and sent them across the...
Friday 23 April 2021 : The murder of George Floyd galvanized the public and led to the largest protests in American history. Even Donald Trump said of the videos...
Friday 16 April 2021 : In a special episode on the crisis in Xinjiang region of China, the staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian investigates Xi Jinping’s...
Tuesday 13 April 2021 : Rickie Lee Jones emerged into the pop world fully formed; her début album was nominated for five Grammys, in 1980, and she won for Best New...
Friday 09 April 2021 : Oscars, schmoscars! Richard Brody is a critic of wide tastes and eccentric enthusiasms. His list of the best films of the year rarely lines...
Tuesday 06 April 2021 : David Fincher made his name in Hollywood as the director of movies that pushed people’s buttons—dark thrillers like “Fight Club,”...
Friday 02 April 2021 : The investigative reporter Jane Mayer recently received a recording of a meeting attended by conservative power brokers including Grover...
Tuesday 30 March 2021 : Our producer talks with the South African scholar Dr. B Camminga, whose essay “Disregard and Danger” deconstructs the viewpoints of...
Friday 26 March 2021 : No sooner had Joe Biden won the Presidential election than Republican state legislatures began introducing measures to make voting more...
Friday 19 March 2021 : April 15, 2020, was near the apex of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, which was then its epicenter. On that day, a crew of New Yorker...
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
The Newspaperman Who Championed Black Tulsa
In the years leading up to the horrific Tulsa massacre of 1921, the Greenwood district was a thriving Black metropolis, a city within a...
Naftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics
In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett. He wrote that Bennett was something new in Israeli politics, a man who...
A Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention, Plus, the Fallout from Gamestop
The largest Protestant denomination in America is in crisis over the group’s reluctance to acknowledge systemic racism; our reporter talks...
Jon M. Chu on “In the Heights”
It’s easy to see why the director Jon M. Chu was adamant that the release of “In the Heights” wait until this summer, when more people...
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax on Beethoven’s Politics of the Cello
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax have both been playing Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major for over forty years. But it took a global...
A Vaccinated Day at the Ballpark, and Sarah Schulman on ACT-UP
The staff writer Patricia Marx checks out the new vaccinated sections at New York’s Major League Baseball parks. The author and activist...
Looking Back at the Year of Protest Since the Death of George Floyd
We look back on the year since the murder of George Floyd galvanized the nation. David Remnick talks with Vanita Gupta, the No. 3 official...
Spike Lee on the Knicks’ Resurgence
Spike Lee is one of the most passionate and committed fans of the New York Knicks—not to mention one of the most celebrated filmmakers of...
Can We Finally End School Segregation?
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of...
“Fire in Little Africa,” A Rap Album about a Historical Tragedy
The Tulsa massacre of 1921 was a coördinated assault on and destruction of the thriving Black community known as Greenwood, Black Wall...
The Post-Pandemic Dress Code, Plus Hilton Als on Alice Neel
When a very long year of doing business from home—in sweatshirts and pajamas and slippers—is over, how much effort will people be...
Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee on the State of the Pandemic
After a year of battling COVID-19, parts of the United States are celebrating a gradual turn toward normalcy, but the pandemic isn’t...
Thomas McGuane Reads “Balloons”
Thomas McGuane reads his story from the May 10, 2021, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction,...
Three Women Who Changed the World
“The Agitators” is a book about three women—three revolutionaries—who changed the world at a time when women weren’t supposed to...
Are U.F.O.s a National Security Threat?
In June, the director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense are expected to deliver a report about what the government knows...
A Surge at the Border, and the Children of Morelia
Nearly a century ago, during the Spanish Civil War, a group of parents put five hundred of their children on a boat and sent them across the...
Jelani Cobb on Derek Chauvin’s Conviction and the Future of Police Reform
The murder of George Floyd galvanized the public and led to the largest protests in American history. Even Donald Trump said of the videos...
What Is Happening in the Internment Camps in Xinjiang
In a special episode on the crisis in Xinjiang region of China, the staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian investigates Xi Jinping’s...
Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road
Rickie Lee Jones emerged into the pop world fully formed; her début album was nominated for five Grammys, in 1980, and she won for Best New...
The Brody Awards, and Louis Menand on “The Free World”
Oscars, schmoscars! Richard Brody is a critic of wide tastes and eccentric enthusiasms. His list of the best films of the year rarely lines...
David Fincher on “Mank,” and Daniel Alarcón’s Favorite Children’s Books
David Fincher made his name in Hollywood as the director of movies that pushed people’s buttons—dark thrillers like “Fight Club,”...
Race and Taxes, and Jane Mayer on How to Kill a Bill
The investigative reporter Jane Mayer recently received a recording of a meeting attended by conservative power brokers including Grover...
The Complex Story of Being Trans in Africa, and Derek DelGaudio on Deception
Our producer talks with the South African scholar Dr. B Camminga, whose essay “Disregard and Danger” deconstructs the viewpoints of...
Will the Most Important Voting-Rights Bill Since 1965 Die in the Senate?
No sooner had Joe Biden won the Presidential election than Republican state legislatures began introducing measures to make voting more...
Remembering a City at the Peak of Crisis
April 15, 2020, was near the apex of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, which was then its epicenter. On that day, a crew of New Yorker...
