Podcasts

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

A Chaotic Election Ends—Maybe?

American flag with check marks and count marks

David Remnick talks with Susan B. Glasser, Evan Osnos, Jeannie Suk Gersen, and Amy Davidson Sorkin about the challenges to a peaceful transition of power.

November 6, 2020

Trump in Review

Trump in the oval office looking outside at a wall and angry protestors

Donald Trump’s time in office has shaken American politics to its core. We’ll examine some of the ways that his impact will be felt long after he’s gone.

October 30, 2020

Driving Through the Pandemic, and the Future of Trumpism

A crosstown MTA bus driving in NYC during sunset

A New York bus operator on working under the threat of the virus, and Nicholas Lemann on the Republican Party after Trump.

October 23, 2020

A Visit with Elvis Costello, Plus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren

An illustrated portrait of Elvis Costello

David Remnick speaks with the legendary musician, and two leaders of the progressive left discuss the election and the state of our democracy.

October 16, 2020

The Battle Over Portland

A Portland landscape filled with smoke and red and blue lights.

Far-right extremists ride into the liberal Northwestern bastion to clash with anti-racism protesters. Plus, a conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

October 9, 2020

Politics and More

The Agonizing Election of 2020

A person sits with her head in her hands.

Voter turnout was the highest in a hundred and twenty years, but the Democratic “Blue Wave” failed to materialize, as the two parties fought to the finish in the days after the election. How to think about the results, and the future of a deeply divided country.

November 5, 2020

Remaking the Federal Courts

Donald Trump delivers remarks.

The legal scholar Jeannie Suk Gersen on the call for Democrats to pack the Supreme Court.

November 2, 2020

A Voter’s Guide to Three Key Swing States

Hands next to a roll of "I Voted Early" stickers

Reporters from three key states from across the country talk about what they've witnessed during a chaotic election season.

October 29, 2020

The Future of Trumpism

People holding up Trump signs.

Donald Trump ran as a populist insurgent, but he has governed largely according to Republican priorities. If he loses the election, what will become of his movement?

October 26, 2020

Ilana Glazer’s “Cheat Sheet for the Voting Booth”

Ilana Glazer on stage with a microphone and a red backdrop

The co-creator and star of “Broad City” talks about her new project to demystify elections for younger voters.

October 22, 2020

The Writer’s Voice

George Saunders Reads “Ghoul”

George Saunders standing in a cemetery

The author reads his story from the November 9, 2020, issue of the magazine.

November 3, 2020

Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “A for Alone”

Curtis Sittenfeld posing leaning against a dark wall

The author reads her story from the November 2, 2020, issue of the magazine.

October 27, 2020

Roddy Doyle Reads “Life Without Children”

Roddy Doyle posing looking at the camera wearing glasses, a white scarf and tweed jacket

The author reads his story from the October 19, 2020, issue of the magazine.

October 13, 2020

David Rabe Reads “Suffocation Theory”

David Rabe speaking in front of a blue background with a camera in the foreground

The author reads his story from the October 12, 2020, issue of the magazine.

October 6, 2020

Joseph O’Neill Reads “Rainbows”

Joseph O'Neill.

The author reads his story from the October 5, 2020, issue of the magazine.

September 29, 2020

Fiction

Elizabeth Strout Reads William Trevor

A portrait of writer Elizabeth Strout

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Bravado,” by William Trevor, from a 2007 issue of the magazine.

November 1, 2020

ZZ Packer Reads Lesley Nneka Arimah

ZZ Packer.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Who Will Greet You at Home,” by Lesley Nneka Arimah, from a 2015 issue of the magazine.

October 1, 2020

David Gilbert Reads Samantha Hunt

David Gilbert leaning against a blue table and looking off in to the distance

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Three Days,” by Samantha Hunt, from a 2006 issue of the magazine.

September 1, 2020

Tommy Orange Reads Louise Erdrich

Tommy Orange.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Years of My Birth,” by Louise Erdrich, from a 2011 issue of the magazine.

August 1, 2020

Allegra Goodman Reads Eudora Welty

Allegra Goodman

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “No Place for You, My Love,” by Eudora Welty, from a 1952 issue of the magazine.

July 1, 2020

Poetry

Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros

Joy Harjo posing against a pink wall wearing long beaded turquoise earrings

Joy Harjo joins Kevin Young to discuss “Still-Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat, Rhinestones, Lard, and Horse Hooves,” by Sandra Cisneros, and her own poem “Running.”

September 16, 2020

Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times

Marilyn Nelson, Tracy K. Smith and Terrance Hayes

In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes join Kevin Young to read their work, and to discuss its relationship to protest and liberation.

July 24, 2020

Clarence Major Reads Billy Collins

Clarence Major

Clarence Major joins Kevin Young to discuss “Downpour,” by Billy Collins, and his own poem “Hair.”

June 24, 2020

Elisa Gonzalez Reads Czeslaw Milosz

Elisa Gonalzez

Gonzalez joins Kevin Young to discuss “Gathering Apricots,” by Milosz, and her own poem “Failed Essay on Privilege.”

April 29, 2020

Ben Purkert Reads Jorie Graham

Ben Purkert

Purkert joins Kevin Young to discuss “Notes on the Reality of the Self,” by Graham, and his own poem “News.”

March 25, 2020