The New Yorker Radio Hour

The legend discusses her new album, her complicated relationship to performing, and recording a duet with Bob Dylan decades after he first asked her to collaborate.

Published: 13 June 2025

The writer’s grandfather founded an agricultural empire, but destroyed his business and his family rather than cede control to his sons. “It’s ‘Succession,’ with spinach,” Seabrook says.

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2025

An autism researcher on Kennedy’s initiative to identify a cause, the focus on environmental factors, and the dangers of misinformation.

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025

The musician talks with Amanda Petrusich about his two new albums of ambient music, and his book “What Art Does,” a pocket-sized argument for the value of feelings in our lives.

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

The “60 Minutes” correspondent is “think[ing] about mourning” the loss of journalistic integrity which a settlement of the President’s twenty-billion-dollar lawsuit would likely entail.

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2025

The sports writer on John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu”—his account of Ted Williams’s last game with the Boston Red Sox. And a visit with Charles Strouse, who died this month.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

Though rooted in the jazz tradition, the singer’s interests and repertoire reach across eras, languages, and continents.

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025

The second season of the Peabody-winning series “The Divided Dial” brings listeners into a little-known but globally influential part of the radio spectrum: shortwave.

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2025

The journalists’ reporting shows that the 2024 Presidential debate between Biden and Donald Trump was not an anomaly but the unravelling of a scheme orchestrated by top aides and family.

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025

The writer and National Book Award-winner on his book “James.”

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2025

The Michigan senator on what she thinks Democrats have been getting wrong and why her state elected Donald Trump and her at the same time.

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025

The financial columnist John Cassidy on America’s turn to tariffs, and his new book “Capitalism and Its Critics.”

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

The nutrition researcher Marion Nestle on the health impact of America’s diet and the politics behind it. Plus, our music critic discusses the pioneering electronic band.

Transcribed - Published: 2 May 2025

Chinese immigrants in the U.S. have been fighting for centuries against racial prejudice, the author Michael Luo says; their story should be seen as an American epic.

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

The senator talks with David Remnick about his record-breaking speech in Congress, and why he resists calls for Democrats to act alone in standing up to Donald Trump.

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2025

Triumph hasn’t spoiled the comedian, or settled her insecurities. “It just never goes away—that feeling of not being worthy, or being thought of as less than,” she tells David Remnick.

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

The staff writer Jill Elpore says that Musk misreads sci-fi cautionary tales as instruction manuals. Plus, a protester shares her fears of government suppression.

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

The director talks with the staff writer Jelani Cobb about his influences and mentors, and how he made a vampire story “uniquely personal.”

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

The contributor Ruth Marcus looks at resistance to executive orders by federal judges—and whether the Supreme Court will ultimately allow Trump to remake the government in his image.

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

The novelist speaks with the staff writer Jennifer Wilson about her newest book, “Audition,” a nuanced story about desire, agency, and creative craft.

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

Stephen Witt on the microchip maker’s rise, and the geopolitical challenges it faces. And, Rothman thinks people outside the tech world should help shape the impact of A.I.

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

After a lifetime spent studying Christianity, the scholar and best-selling author talks with David Remnick about why there’s still controversy over the religion’s foundational texts.

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

The Trump Administration is moving to prevent fair elections in 2026, the Connecticut Democrat says. “It won’t matter if we’re more popular than them.”

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

Soon after October 7th, Hisham Awartani and two Palestinian friends were shot on the street in Vermont. At home in the West Bank, he contemplates the prospect of Israeli annexation.

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

The CNN anchor and chief White House correspondent talks with the guest host Clare Malone about covering the Trump Administrations—and how Trump’s circle isn’t as hostile as it seems.

Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2025

Federal employees share what life is like under DOGE cuts, and why they’re speaking out. Plus, the novelist talks about Annie Proulx’s 1997 story, which eventually became a hit film.

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance to America and to the world, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring.

Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2025

The former senator faces prison time for accepting bribes in cash and gold, and for related crimes. Then he made a thinly veiled plea to the President he had once voted to impeach.

Transcribed - Published: 10 March 2025

The Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin looks at America’s turning point in supporting Ukraine.

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2025

The actor talks with Emily Nussbaum about his role on “The Traitors,” why he had always been “judgy” toward reality shows, and the perils of fame.

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2025

The Minnesota governor, who was Kamala Harris’s running mate, on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024, and what they should do now that Donald Trump is back in the White House.

Transcribed - Published: 28 February 2025

Oscar who? The film critic—a true believer in the art of cinema—picks the winners of the most coveted award of all: The Brodys.

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025

The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup” to bail it out. But Democrats have to work with Trump.

Transcribed - Published: 21 February 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2025

Anthony Romero, the head of the A.C.L.U., says that the United States is on the brink of a constitutional crisis. “We’re at the Rubicon. Whether we’ve crossed it remains to be seen.”

Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2025

Two of the filmmakers, Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, discuss the challenges and the threat of violence they faced making a film about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.

Transcribed - Published: 11 February 2025

The staff writer Jelani Cobb talks about the Trump Administration’s attempts to root out policies of diversity, equity, and inclusion—which it describes as discriminatory.

Transcribed - Published: 7 February 2025

The New Yorker editors Deborah Treisman and Kevin Young discuss literary anthologies published for the magazine’s centennial.

Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2025

The Microsoft co-founder and public-health philanthropist discusses the future of A.I., vaccine skepticism, and the politics of technology in 2025.

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2025

The New Yorker editor Susan Morrison on Lorne Michaels, the producer who still runs “S.N.L.” with an iron hand. Plus, Tina Fey reads The New Yorker’s review of the show from Season 1.

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

“Donald Trump is a master of picking appointees for very senior positions who never would have gotten those jobs under anyone else,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says.

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025

President Biden’s long-serving Secretary of State on the crisis in Gaza, and his reason for optimism about a lasting peace in the region.

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

Mining for rare-earth metals has severe environmental consequences. Speaking with Elizabeth Kolbert, the journalist Vince Beiser says that the U.S. needs more of it.

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2025

Representing Silicon Valley in Congress, Khanna knows tech moguls—and knows how dangerous they are. “Some of them,” he tells David Remnick, “think they’re Nietzsche’s Superman.”

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

The songwriter and performer on her journey from pop music to theatre, with a live performance of “Gravity.”

Transcribed - Published: 7 January 2025

Munro kept quiet about the sexual abuse of her daughter by her partner—but wrote about the family trauma in fiction.

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2025

The actress talks with Michael Schulman about her time on “As the World Turns,” starring in Pedro Almodóvar’s first film in English, and why she hates when people call actors “brave.”

Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2024

The food guru explains why she hated dinnertime growing up, and how she learned to love it. Plus, Pick Three: Erotic Thrillers.

Transcribed - Published: 27 December 2024

In 1979, a minister received a telegram from Iranian militants who had taken hostages in the American embassy, inviting him to perform Christmas services. Two days later, he was inside.

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2024