The New Yorker Radio Hour

Dhruv Khullar, who reports on medicine for The New Yorker, investigates the medical effects of extreme heat.

Published: 26 August 2025

Evan Osnos speaks with Wired’s Katie Drummond about the hype around artificial intelligence, and what tech moguls learned from Elon Musk’s tenure in the White House.

Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2025

The reporter Mohammed R. Mhawish was targeted in an Israeli air strike. He lived, and escaped Gaza. He continues to report on the deprivation and challenges of people trapped in the war.

Published: 18 August 2025

The director and the actor discuss their latest collaboration, nineteen years after their previous film together. “Time flies!,” Lee says. “I didn’t know it had been that long.”

Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2025

The New Yorker critic explains which movies by the filmmaker he loves most—and why.

Transcribed - Published: 12 August 2025

Jeannie Suk Gersen and Ruth Marcus, who write about the law for The New Yorker, address listeners’ pressing questions about the Trump Administration’s legal controversies.

Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2025

The celebrated writer discusses how she found her unique voice, and a new collection of her writings that begins with her first published piece in The New Yorker.

Transcribed - Published: 5 August 2025

Brennan’s C.I.A. was lambasted by Donald Trump as part of what he called the “Russia hoax.” Why is the Administration going after Brennan now?

Transcribed - Published: 1 August 2025

Rapid changes in technology are rendering American supremacy in highly advanced, expensive weapons a thing of the past. Can the military adapt in time for the next conflict?

Transcribed - Published: 29 July 2025

Elected in part on a promise to address the housing crisis, Bass faces a different crisis: a federal “seizure” of Los Angeles, and an Administration fixated on mass deportation.

Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2025

Ari Aster’s neo-noir Western involves a gun-toting sheriff, COVID, the George Floyd protests, and a mysterious A.I. data center. The writer-director talks with Adam Howard.

Transcribed - Published: 22 July 2025

The journalist talks about his interviews with the infamous abuser, and the political fallout from the White House’s attempt to close his case.

Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2025

Brownstein, of Sleater-Kinney and “Portlandia,” on Richard Avedon’s 2003 iconic photo of a young rocker. Plus, The New Yorker’s Critics at Large on Lena Dunham’s new show and more.

Transcribed - Published: 15 July 2025

The former chair of the Federal Reserve on the budget, and Donald Trump’s fixation on low interest rates. And, Susan B. Glasser on the political implications of the “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2025

Ten years after his suicide, lessons from what Browder shared with The New Yorker about his time in solitary confinement.

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2025

The singer on his memoir, “Surrender,” which deals with the early loss of his mother, finding religion in music, and navigating the Troubles while in a rock band from Dublin.

Transcribed - Published: 4 July 2025

The writer Stephanie Burt discusses her new anthology of L.G.B.T.Q. poetry.

Transcribed - Published: 1 July 2025

The Fox News anchor discusses the channel’s nightly news show, his role in the current media ecosystem, and what liberal outlets have gotten wrong about covering Trump.

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2025

How did America join Russia and China as an oligarchy? The staff writer Evan Osnos chronicles the shift in his new book, “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich.”

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2025

The Israeli American writer Yossi Klein Halevi is vehemently opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu, but he makes the case for why Netanyahu was right to start a war, whatever the consequences.

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2025

Nicolas Niarchos shares reporting from a civil war in which Sudan’s Black minority is caught between warring factions led by members of the country’s Arab majority.

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2025

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.

Transcribed - 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