New Yorker: Out Loud
By The New Yorker
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Podcast Description
A weekly conversation about what's new in The New Yorker.
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Emily Nussbaum on the renaissance in children's programming. | 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. | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jill Lepore on birth control, abortion, and American politics | 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. | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 10/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Alan Stamaty on storytelling, cartoons, and his artist parents. | 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. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elif Batuman on biodiversity and birdwatching in northeastern Turkey | 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. | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matteo Pericoli on drawing Manhattan, before and after 9/11 | 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 how the skyline has changed in the past dozen years. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 8/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blake Eskin visits Katharine and E. B. White's salt-water farm in Brooklin, Maine | 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. | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom Bissell on Jennifer Hale and the "Mass Effect" trilogy | 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. | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephen Greenblatt on Lucretius and his poem "On the Nature of Things" | 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. | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 7/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 7/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 6/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 6/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Susan Morrison, Nick Paumgarten, and Lizzie Widdicombe on The Talk of the Town | "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. | 6/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The translators Brian Boyd and Olga Voronina on Nabokov's correspondence with his wife | 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. | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 Walküre," 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. | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laura Miller on the epic fantasy author George R. R. Martin | 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. | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ian Frazier on his urban wanderings | Ian Frazier on his urban wanderings. | 3/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Denby on the films of Abbas Kiarostami | David Denby on the films of Abbas Kiarostami. | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elif Batuman on Turkish soccer fans | Elif Batuman on Turkish soccer fans. | 2/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tad Friend on the asteroid threat | Tad Friend on the asteroid threat. | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adam Gopnik on the Internet revolution | Adam Gopnik on the Internet revolution. | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lawrence Wright talks about Paul Haggis and Scientology | Lawrence Wright talks about Paul Haggis and Scientology. | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Francisco Goldman on the death of his wife | Francisco Goldman on the death of his wife. | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Kolbert and Evan Osnos on the tiger-mother furor | Elizabeth Kolbert and Evan Osnos on the tiger-mother furor. | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jon Lee Anderson on Sri Lanka | Jon Lee Anderson on Sri Lanka. | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evan Osnos on psychoanalysis in China | Evan Osnos on psychoanalysis in China. | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adam Gopnik on the state of dessert. | Adam Gopnik on the state of dessert. | 12/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Hessler on a Peace Corps volunteer's experience in Washington | Peter Hessler on a Peace Corps volunteer's experience in Washington. | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Cassidy on how Chinese state capitalism takes after the U.S. and Europe | John Cassidy on how Chinese state capitalism takes after the U.S. and Europe. | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gay Talese on the soprano Marina Poplavskaya | Gay Talese on the soprano Marina Poplavskaya. | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Wood on the unhinged power of Keith Moon | James Wood on the unhinged power of Keith Moon. | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burkhard Bilger on the underground food movement | Burkhard Bilger on the underground food movement. | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Judith Thurman on Cleopatra | Judith Thurman on Cleopatra. | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jianying Zha on the writer Wang Meng | Jianying Zha on the writer Wang Meng. | 11/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Roz Chast on her career at The New Yorker | Roz Chast on her career at The New Yorker. | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lauren Collins on the Tories' new philosophy | Lauren Collins on the Tories' new philosophy. | 10/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Finnegan on a Tijuana police chief's campaign against corruption | William Finnegan on a Tijuana police chief's campaign against corruption. | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Henry Bromell on writing | Henry Bromell, from short stories to "Rubicon." | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evan Osnos on the Dalai Lama | Evan Osnos on the Dalai Lama. | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebecca Mead on staging F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" | Rebecca Mead on staging F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Louis Menand on the pleasure of parody | Louis Menand on the pleasure of parody. | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Judith Thurman on Roland Barthes, writer and son. | Judith Thurman on Roland Barthes, writer and son. | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Reporting Life | Lillian Ross remembers Hemingway, Salinger, and sixty-five years at The New Yorker. | 8/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oliver Sacks on living with face blindness | Oliver Sacks on living with face blindness. | 8/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patricia Marx on buying a car in New York | Patricia Marx on buying a car in New York. | 8/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sasha Frere-Jones on the changing role of record labels | Sasha Frere-Jones on the changing role of record labels. | 8/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nicholson Baker examines video games | Nicholson Baker examines video games. | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kelefa Sanneh on the music of Brad Paisley | Kelefa Sanneh on the music of Brad Paisley. | 7/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Franzen on the slaughter of songbirds in Europe | Jonathan Franzen on the slaughter of songbirds in Europe. | 7/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben McGrath on David Ortiz's career as a designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox | Ben McGrath on David Ortiz's career as a designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox. | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barbara Demick on the experiences of North Korean refugees | Barbara Demick on the experiences of North Korean refugees. | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebecca Mead on playgrounds | Rebecca Mead on how playground design affects children's brains. | 6/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer | Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer. | 6/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hampton Sides, Daniel Alarcon, and Burkhard Bilger on the World Cup | Hampton Sides, Daniel Alarcon, and Burkhard Bilger on the World Cup. | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon on the 20 Under 40 list | Fiction editors Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon on The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list. | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joan Acocella on the allure of the circus | Joan Acocella on the allure of the circus. | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Finnegan on the Mexican crime cartel La Familia | William Finnegan on the Mexican crime cartel La Familia. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alec Wilkinson on Los Tigres del Norte | Alec Wilkinson on Los Tigres del Norte. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alex Ross on the history and future of movie music | Alex Ross on the history and future of movie music. | 5/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Seabrook on adopting a Haitian child after the earthquake | John Seabrook on adopting a Haitian child after the earthquake. | 5/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Hessler and Evan Osnos on living abroad and returning to America | Peter Hessler and Evan Osnos on living abroad and returning to America. | 4/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Janis Bellow on the letters of Saul Bellow | Janis Bellow on the letters of her late husband, Saul Bellow. | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elif Batuman on rediscovering lost Turkish recipes | Elif Batuman on rediscovering lost Turkish recipes. | 4/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Samuels investigates a gang of Balkan jewel thieves | David Samuels investigates a gang of Balkan jewel thieves. | 4/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adam Gopnik discusses the French culinary movement Le Fooding | Adam Gopnik discusses the French culinary movement Le Fooding. | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jill Lepore on disturbing origins of marriage counselling | Jill Lepore on the disturbing origins of marriage counselling. | 3/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John McPhee on lacrosse and writing | John McPhee on lacrosse and writing. | 3/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Colapinto on the music of Esperanza Spalding | John Colapinto on the music of Esperanza Spalding. | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Judith Thurman on the work of Marina Abramovic | Judith Thurman on the work of Marina Abramovic. | 3/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Louis Menand on depression | Louis Menand looks at the contradictory ways we understand and treat depression. | 2/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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George Packer and Susan Orlean on Twitter | George Packer and Susan Orlean on Twitter. | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Remnick on the heroes of the civil-rights era | David Remnick on the heroes of the civil-rights era. | 2/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kelefa Sanneh on the gospel singer Tonex | Kelefa Sanneh on the gospel singer Tonex. | 2/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meghan O'Rourke on grief | The cultural history of mourning and grief. | 1/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Mendelsohn on memoirs | Personal confessions, from St. Augustine to James Frey. | 1/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel | Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel in translation. | 1/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Cassidy on the Chicago School and the financial crisis | How economists are responding to the financial crisis. | 1/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Denby and Richard Brody on their favorite films of the decade | David Denby and Richard Brody discuss their favorite films of the year and the decade. | 12/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fen Montaigne on Adélie penguins | Fen Montaigne discusses the five months he spent working alongside the ecologist Bill Fraser, studying the declining Adélie penguin populations in Antarctica. | 12/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 12/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Platon on photographing world leaders | Platon discusses his portfolio of portraits of world leaders. | 11/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ariel Levy on Caster Semenya | Ariel Levy discusses the controversy over Caster Semenya's gender, and the implications of her story for sports and society. | 11/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 | 11/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 11/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sasha Frere-Jones on hip-hop | Sasha Frere-Jones discusses the future of hip-hop. | 10/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 10/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 10/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Polidori on the UN | Robert Polidori discusses the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 9/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 9/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alexandra Jacobs on Zappos | Alexandra Jacobs talks about the online shoe store Zappos. | 9/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 9/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 8/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alex Ross on fictional music | Alex Ross talks about the fictional music of composers in literature. | 8/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Seabrook on rock concerts | John Seabrook talks about the history of the rock-concert industry. | 8/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ian Frazier on Siberia | Ian Frazier discusses his road trip across Siberia. | 8/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kelefa Sanneh on Michael Savage | Kelefa Sanneh on talk-show host Michael Savage. | 7/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Larissa MacFarquhar on kidney donation | Larissa MacFarquhar on the issues surrounding kidney donation. | 7/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Rudnick on Hollywood and nuns | Paul Rudnick on Hollywood and nuns. | 7/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Raffi Khatchadourian on war crimes | Raffi Khatchadourian on a war crime in Iraq. | 6/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jill Lepore on parenthood | Jill Lepore on parenthood. | 6/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lauren Collins on Nora Roberts | Lauren Collins on Nora Roberts and the history of the romance novel. | 6/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 6/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Louis Menand on writing workshops | Louis Menand talks about writing workshops. | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Kolbert on mass extinctions | Elizabeth Kolbert on the history of mass extinctions. | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nick Paumgarten on the financial crisis | Nick Paumgarten on understanding the financial crisis. | 5/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom Shone on J. G. Ballard | Tom Shone discusses J. G. Ballard's novels and the films they inspired. | 5/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philip Gourevitch on Rwanda | Philip Gourevitch on how a country of murderers and survivors manage to live together. | 4/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elif Batuman on Harvard's bells | Elif Batuman on the return of Harvard's bells to Russia. | 4/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burkhard Bilger on Florida’s wildlife | Burkhard Bilger on Florida’s problem with invasive exotic wildlife. | 4/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kelefa Sanneh on Katt Williams | Kelefa Sanneh on the comedian Katt Williams. | 4/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Schjeldahl on the emotional power of painting | Peter Schjeldahl on the emotional power of painting. | 3/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evan Osnos on China's economy | Evan Osnos on the economic slowdown in China. | 3/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keith Gessen on Anna Politkovskaya | Keith Gessen discusses the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya. | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joan Acocella on vampires | Joan Acocella discusses the enduring appeal of vampires | 3/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sasha Frere-Jones on Lily Allen | Sasha Frere-Jones talks about the music and fame of Lily Allen. | 3/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ariel Levy on Lamar Van Dyke | Ariel Levy discusses Lamar Van Dyke and the world of lesbian separatists. | 2/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Louis Menand on Donald Barthelme | Louis Menand talks about the writer Donald Barthelme. | 2/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Evan Osnos on African merchants in China | Evan Osnos talks about African merchants in China. | 2/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Remnick interviews Tzipi Livni | David Remnick interviews the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Tzipi Livni, at Kennedy Airport on January 17th. | 1/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben McGrath on doomsaying | Ben McGrath talks about predictions of economic and social collapse, the history of doomsaying, and the future of the American Dream. | 1/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Judith Thurman on Scrabble | Judith Thurman talks about the importance of Scrabble to her own family, and her adventures playing online. | 1/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke on photography | Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke discuss photography. | 1/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ariel Levy on The Joy of Sex | Ariel Levy discusses The Joy of Sex and its relevancy. | 12/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zadie Smith on her family | Zadie Smith writes about comedy and her family. | 12/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wendell Steavenson on Georgia and Russia | Wendell Steavenson discusses the tensions between Georgia and Russia, and how Georgia has changed since she lived there, in the late nineteen-nineties. | 12/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Larissa MacFarquhar on Naomi Klein | Larissa MacFarquhar discusses Naomi Klein and her book "The Shock Doctrine." | 12/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Wood on V. S. Naipaul | James Wood discusses V. S. Naipaul. | 11/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Strange Brews | Burkhard Bilger talks about the rise of extreme beer. | 11/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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George Packer on President Obama | George Packer on what to look for in the next Administration, and whether the Internet's pro-Obama movement will continue to support him as President. | 11/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Lanchester on finance | John Lanchester on why derivatives are like modernist art and what his father, a banker, would have thought of what finance has become. | 10/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bruce McCall on cartoons | Bruce McCall on his drawing for the Cartoon Issue, his artistic process, and his career. | 10/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kelefa Sanneh and David Denby on political impersonation | Kelefa Sanneh and David Denby on the pleasures and perils of political impersonation. | 10/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Better Late | Malcolm Gladwell on genius and precocity. | 10/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Back at the Ranch | Pamela Colloff discusses George W. Bush and Crawford, Texas. | 10/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Raffi Khatchadourian on illegal lumber | Raffi Khatchadourian explains how an illegally harvested tree in Russia can become a toilet seat in an American home. | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Platon on photographing the military | Platon on photographing members of the military and their families. | 9/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elephant in the Room | Adam Gopnik discusses the controversy behind Babar and the books' enduring appeal. | 9/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ariel Levy on Cindy McCain | Ariel Levy on Cindy McCain and the women of the 2008 election. | 9/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Face of the Surge | Steve Coll discusses General David Petraeus's duties in Iraq and his role in information operations. | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Prime Time | The New Yorker's television critic, Nancy Franklin, discusses the Beijing Olympics and why great television is such a rare thing. | 8/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Adams on San Francisco | In this week's issue, the composer John Adams writes about his time in San Francisco. Here Adams discusses his influences, the pressures of expectation, and the motivation behind his memoir. | 8/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Grann on Frederic Bourdin | In this week's issue, David Grann writes about the French con man Frederic Bourdin. Here Grann discusses Bourdin's deceptions in Europe and the United States and whether he has left behind imposture for good. | 8/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kelefa Sanneh on Tavis Smiley | This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about the radio and television host Tavis Smiley. Here Sanneh explains Smiley's wary commentary about Barack Obama and discusses the meaning of Obama's candidacy for African-Americans. | 7/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Samuels on medical marijuana | In this issue of the magazine, David Samuels writes about medical marijuana and its effect on California's pot industry overall. Here Samuels describes how marijuana is grown and sold, and how he went about reporting the story. | 7/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jill Lepore and Roger Angell on E. B. White | In this week's issue, Jill Lepore writes about the battle over E. B. White's "Stuart Little." Here Jill Lepore and Roger Angell, E. B. White's stepson and an editor at the magazine, talk about E. B. White's writing, Katharine White's columns about children's literature, the librarian Ann Carroll Moore, and the challenge of writing for children. | 7/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Seymour M. Hersh on Iran | Seymour M. Hersh talks about the Bush Administrations secret campaign against Iran. | 6/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Atul Gawande on itching | Atul Gawande explores the science behind itching and describes one extreme case of a woman who couldn't stop scratching. | 6/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter J. Boyer on Keith Olbermann | This week, Peter J. Boyer writes about the MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. Here Boyer talks about Olbermann's style and how it contrasts with traditional television news. | 6/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Perfect Pitch | This week, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about Auto-Tune, a pitch-correction software program used in pop music. Here Frere-Jones talks about how Auto-Tune has become a pop-music phenomenon, and demonstrates how it can transform the human voice with the help of the music producer Tom Beaujour. | 6/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Goldberger on Olympic architecture | This week in the magazine, Paul Goldberger writes about the architecture of the Beijing Olympics. Here Goldberger talks about Beijing's standout buildings, and the long-term impact that the Olympic games has on host cities. | 5/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ian Frazier on a writers' workshop | In this issue of the magazine, Ian Frazier writes about a Chelsea soup kitchen. Here Frazier talks about his experiences running a writers' workshop at the soup kitchen, and the differences between humor writing and reportage. | 5/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sue Halpern on Virtual Iraq | This week in the magazine, Sue Halpern writes about Virtual Iraq, a treatment for traumatized veterans. Here Halpern talks about how researchers adapted a video game into a simulation of combat experiences, and how soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder react to it. | 5/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Margaret Talbot on animal language and cognition | This week in the magazine, Margaret Talbot writes about the scientist Irene Pepperberg and her work with Alex the parrot. Here Talbot talks about what Pepperberg's research reveals about animal language and cognition, with samples of Alex speaking. | 5/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Finnegan on human trafficking | In this issue of the magazine, William Finnegan writes about young women from Moldova who were forced into prostitution in other countries. Here Finnegan talks about the transnational networks of human trafficking and the efforts to help their victims. | 4/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burkhard Bilger on field recording | Burkhard Bilger talks about the history of field recording, and introduces samples from the folklorist Art Rosenbaum's recordings. | 4/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Franzen on China | Jonathan Franzen talks about his journey to China. | 4/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joan Acocella on "Dancing with the Stars" | Joan Acocella dissects "Dancing with the Stars." | 4/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben McGrath on Lenny Dykstra | This week, Ben McGrath writes about the retired baseball player Lenny Dykstra and his new magazine, The Players Club. Here, McGrath discusses Dykstra's efforts to broaden the horizons of retired athletes. | 3/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adam Gopnik on modern magic | This week in the magazine, Adam Gopnik writes about modern magic. Here Gopnik talks about the future of magic and compares the magician's art to the writer's craft. | 3/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Chabon on superhero costumes | This week in the magazine, Michael Chabon writes about what superheroes should wear. Here Chabon talks about the difficulties of dressing superheroes off the comic-book page, writing about clothes, and turning books into movies. | 3/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Honor Moore on her father | This week in the magazine, in an excerpt from her book, "The Bishop's Daughter," Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. Here Moore talks about her father's public service and private life. | 2/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Specter on carbon pollution | This week in the magazine and online, Michael Specter writes about the fine line between morality and science in dealing with carbon pollution. Here Specter talks about the possibility of using economics to change behavior and cut emissions. | 2/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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George Packer on his play "Betrayed" | George Packer talks about "Betrayed," a play he adapted from his The New Yorker article of the same title. | 2/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Francoise Mouly on the Eustace Tilley Contest | The New Yorkers art editor, Francoise Mouly, talks with Matt Dellinger about the nearly three hundred submissions to the Eustace Tilley Contest. | 2/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Muldoon on rock and poetry | The New Yorker's poetry editor, Paul Muldoon, talks with Matt Dellinger about rock and roll and the state of poetry. | 1/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steve Coll on Pakistan | This week in the magazine, Steve Coll writes about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the growing violence in Pakistan. Here Coll talks with Matt Dellinger about the country's insurgency, the influence of the Taliban, and President Musharraf's changing role. | 1/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lawrence Wright on Mike McConnell | This week in the magazine, Lawrence Wright writes about Mike McConnell, the director of National Intelligence. Here Wright talks with Matt Dellinger about McConnell's ideas for reform, his views on privacy issues and torture, and the threats the intelligence community may confront in the future. | 1/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Denby on Otto Preminger | David Denby talks about the director Otto Preminger and the films of 2007. | 1/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burkhard Bilger on 211 Pearl Street | Burkhard Bilger talks about the mysterious past and future of 211 Pearl Street, the man who tried to save the building, and preserving old New York. | 12/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Lahr on Harold Pinter | John Lahr talks about what he learned from the playwright Harold Pinter, and how Pinter changed theatre. | 12/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gray Matter | Malcolm Gladwell on race and I.Q. | 12/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nick Paumgarten on Eliot Spitzer | Nick Paumgarten on Eliot Spitzer's difficult first year as Governor, and whether he's likely to change. | 11/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Specter on retroviruses | Michael Specter talks about ancient, deadly viruses that are being brought back from extinction, what these retroviruses can teach biologists about how humans evolved, and how they may hold the key to conquering AIDS and other diseases. | 11/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gahan Wilson on comics | Gahan Wilson, who has been contributing cartoons to the magazine for more than three decades, talks with cartoon editor Robert Mankoff about how he got started, the legacy of Charles Addams, and his singular comic point of view. | 11/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jon Lee Anderson on Iraq | Jon Lee Anderson talks about how the troop surge is working in the Baghdad suburb of Ghazaliya, and the activities and alliances that have accompanied a reduction in violence. | 11/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeffrey Toobin on Clarence Thomas | Jeffrey Toobin on the recent memoir by the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and on his own book "The Nine." | 11/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Raffi Khatchadourian on Paul Watson | Raffi Khatchadourian talks about high-seas vigilante Paul Watson and his thirty-year crusade to save the oceans. | 10/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ryan Lizza on Mitt Romney | This week in the magazine, The New Yorkers Washington correspondent, Ryan Lizza, writes about the cultures that shaped Mitt Romney and the candidates attempt to cast himself as a conservative. Here, with Blake Eskin, Lizza talks about Romney and the state of his Presidential campaign. | 10/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sasha Frere-Jones on miscegenation in American music | This week in the magazine, The New Yorker's pop-music critic, Sasha Frere-Jones, writes about how indie-rock bands have strayed from the origins of rock and roll. Here Frere-Jones talks with Matt Dellinger about the loss of miscegenation in American music, with clips of relevant songs. | 10/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Finnegan on Kosovo | This week in the magazine, William Finnegan reports on the push for independence in Kosovo and the upcoming elections there. Here, with Matt Dellinger, Finnegan discusses the recent history of the region and the outlook for an independent Kosovo. | 10/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alex Ross on his new book | Alex Ross talks about his new book, his blog, and the New Yorker Festival. | 9/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Remnick interviews Garry Kasparov | David Remnick interviews Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and political activist, about the Putin regime and Russia's future. | 9/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dana Goodyear on Kim Hastreiter | Dana Goodyear talks with Blake Eskin about Kim Hastreiter and the downtown-life-style magazine Paper, and about her own experience, living in Los Angeles. | 9/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Singer on Joyce Hatto | This week, Mark Singer writes about the incredible career of the pianist Joyce Hatto. Here Singer talks with Matt Dellinger about Hatto, with clips of music and archival interviews. | 9/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jane Kramer on her kitchen | Jane Kramer talks about her kitchen in Italy and eating with the cookbook writer Claudia Roden. | 8/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Seabrook on seed banks | John Seabrook talks about the worlds first global seed bank and the importance of biological diversity. | 8/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter J. Boyer on Rudy Giuliani | Peter J. Boyer talks about the unique appeal of Rudy Giuliani. | 8/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Denby on Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni | David Denby talks about the work of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. | 8/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Kolbert on bees | Elizabeth Kolbert talks about her back-yard hive and the fate of the honeybee. | 7/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Remnick on Avraham Burg | David Remnick discusses Avraham Burg's inflammatory comments and the current mood of Israel. | 7/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jon Lee Anderson on the Taliban | Jon Lee Anderson talks about a battle with the Taliban in the poppy fields of Afghanistan | 6/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ken Auletta on Rupert Murdoch | Ken Auletta discusses Rupert Murdoch's WSJ takeover bid. | 6/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 225 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
This rating is an average...
This is a worthy use of a quarter hour or so per week. Some of the individual podcasts are excellent and some are average, ergo the rating of 4. I find that the enjoyment I get from listening to these varies according to two main factors. The first is the topic and the second is the moderator. I always enjoy the ones like the podcast on bees, because I enjoy learning esoteric information some might call trivia, whereas I have to be in a certain mood or frame of mind for more weighty topics such as our conduct of the war. Uniformly, though, I find the ones moderated by Matt Dellinger to be the best listening. His questions are very good, he doesn't come across as bored or condescending and he has an excellent 'radio voice.'
Solid Background
The podcast is a great audio accompaniment to one of the week's long essays. Since the essays themselves are so often groundbreaking, these interviews are welcome compaions to those long pieces. Is it a full version of the New Yorker? No, and it's not meant to be. For what it is, though, I really enjoy it.
Refreshing and unpretentious
The New Yorker is a relentless magazine that comes every single week, and it's impossible to read all of it while leading a normal life. What I love about this podcast is that it manages to distill the ideas of one article each week in an intelligent, accessible way. The host is a natural at getting the writers to relax and drop their pretensions. It's refreshing in that way. Yet the material is never dumbed down.
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- Category: News & Politics
- Language: English
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