The New Yorker: Out Loud Podcast
|
 |
|
|
|
|
A weekly conversation about what's new in The New Yorker.
About Podcasting:
For those of you new to podcasting, Click Here to read our "Introduction to Podcasting" Article.
 Write a Review of The New Yorker: Out Loud Podcast
| Podcast Feed URL: |
Podcast Website:
http://www.newyorker.com
Arthur Krystal, Deborah Treisman, and Sasha Weiss discuss genre versus literary fiction.
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 21, 2012
This week in the magazine, Arthur Krystal looks at the porous boundaries between pulp, genre, and literary fiction. Here Krystal talks with Deborah Treisman and Sasha Weiss about how seriously we should take fiction that aims only to entertain. Plus, the cultural guilty pleasures of an avant-garde poet and two New Yorker staff writers.
 Download File - 6.6 MB
 Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
James Wood and Richard Brody on the film and literature of the Holocaust.
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, May 15, 2012
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Peter Hessler explains how not to get picked in a police lineup, and James Wood and Richard Brody consider the literature and cinema of the Holocaust, from Laurent Binet's "HHhH" to Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah."
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Michael Specter and Elizabeth Kolbert discuss whether we can invent a solution to global warming without destroying the world.
Author: The New Yorker
Sun, May 06, 2012
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Nick Paumgarten describes a future where drones deliver tacos, and Michael Specter and Elizabeth Kolbert consider geoengineering solutions to climate change.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ariel Levy and Kelefa Sanneh talk about women's Olympic boxing.
Author: The New Yorker
Sun, Apr 29, 2012
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Rick Moody explains "The Unreliable Global Positioning System," and Ariel Levy and Kelefa Sanneh talk about the cultural complications of women's boxing.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ken Auletta on Stanford and the tech companies that surround it.
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 23, 2012
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Ian McEwan talks with Deborah Treisman about spy recruitment in nineteen-seventies England, and Ken Auletta talks with Nicholas Thompson about the strange symbiotic relationship between Silicon Valley and Stanford University.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jerome Groopman on promising new cancer therapies.
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 16, 2012
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Alex Ross recalls the man who knew everybody, and Jerome Groopman explains the promise of a new way to use the immune system to fight cancer.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Lauren Collins and Burkhard Bilger on reporting in distant lands.
Author: The New Yorker
Sun, Apr 08, 2012
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Patty Marx talks couch-surfing, John Michaud looks back at some of the great travel writing in The New Yorker archive, and Nicholas Thompson talks with Lauren Collins and Burkhard Bilger about some of their far-flung correspondence.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Sasha Frere-Jones and John Bennet discuss their tweeting habits.
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 02, 2012
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, New Yorker writers and editors talk about the ethics of having children, and Nick Thompson chats with Sasha Frere-Jones and John Bennet about Twitter.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Joan Acocella on how believers talk to God.
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 26, 2012
This week in the magazine, Joan Acocella reviews T. M. Luhrmann's "When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God." Here Acocella talks to Blake Eskin about Luhrmann's scientific yet sympathetic approach to intense religious experience, and how Acocella first started writing about religion.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Seabrook on the producers and writers behind Top 40 stars
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 19, 2012
This week in the magazine, John Seabrook writes about how Top Forty songs are produced. Here Seabrook talks with Blake Eskin about the producer duo Stargate and the songwriter Ester Dean, who've created hit singles for Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, among others, as well as about who controls the radio dial in Seabrook's car.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Francisco Goldman on the legacy of Argentina's Dirty War
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 12, 2012
This week in the magazine, Francisco Goldman writes about the heirs to the Argentine media company ClarÃn, and the attempt to establish whether they are the biological children of those who were disappeared in the country's Dirty War. Here Goldman talks with Blake Eskin about the Dirty War, the decades-long search for the children of the disappeared, and what finding them has meant for the children and for the country as a whole.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Michael Specter on the dangers of studying bird flu
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 05, 2012
This week in the magazine, Michael Specter writes about the Dutch scientist Ron Fouchier, who created a virulent strain of bird flu. Here Specter talks with Blake Eskin about Fouchier's scientific goals, why some critics think his research shouldn't be published, and why suppressing such research could be more dangerous.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Nicholas Schmidle on an international arms dealer
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Feb 28, 2012
This week in the magazine, Nicholas Schmidle writes about the capture and trial of the arms trafficker Viktor Bout. Here Schmidle talks with Blake Eskin about Bout's rise and fall, how Bout sees the world, and what draws Schmidle to write about criminals like Bout.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Julia Ioffe on a Russian Billionaire's Presidential Campaign
Author: The New Yorker
Wed, Feb 22, 2012
This week in the magazine, Julia Ioffe writes about the presidential campaign of the Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Here Ioffe talks with Blake Eskin about Prokhorov's entry into politics, the recent outbreak of anti-Putin protests, and reporting from Russia in interesting times.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jonathan Franzen on Edith Wharton's New York
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Feb 14, 2012
This week in the magazine, Jonathan Franzen writes about three of his favorite Edith Wharton novels. Here Franzen talks with Blake Eskin about Wharton's biography, her fascination with money and beauty, and her influence on Franzen's own writing.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Emily Nussbaum on the renaissance in children's programming.
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 06, 2012
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
The pianist Jeremy Denk on recording an album.
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 30, 2012
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jonah Lehrer on how to stimulate group creativity
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 23, 2012
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Donald Hall looks at his barn, and back through time
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Jan 17, 2012
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Seabrook on the future of video and television
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Peter Hessler on an American crime reporter in Japan
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Jan 03, 2012
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Blake Eskin on his favorite Out Loud podcasts from 2011
Author: The New Yorker
Wed, Dec 28, 2011
Blake Eskin surveys some of his favorite Out Loud podcasts from the past twelve months.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Burkhard Bilger on desertification.
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Dec 20, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Alex Ross on Don Carlo Gesualdo
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 12, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Denby on the best and worst films of the season
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 05, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Walking About Town
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Nov 29, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Emily Nussbaum on the pleasures of television
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Nov 22, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Thomas Mallon on alternative history in fiction
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 14, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jill Lepore on birth control, abortion, and American politics
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 07, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Daniel Mendelsohn on a slimmer, faster Iliad
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 31, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Mark Alan Stamaty on storytelling, cartoons, and his artist parents.
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Oct 25, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Elif Batuman on biodiversity and birdwatching in northeastern Turkey
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 17, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Michael Specter on an alternative to the war on drugs
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Oct 11, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Akash Kapur on modernization and rural life
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Oct 04, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Colapinto on the business of naming
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Sep 27, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jenny Diski on shoplifting
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 19, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ariel Levy on sexual revolutions
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 12, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Matteo Pericoli on drawing Manhattan, before and after 9/11
Author: The New Yorker
Wed, Sep 07, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jay Rubin on working with Haruki Murakami
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Aug 30, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Sasha Frere-Jones listens to Shabazz Palaces.
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 22, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Blake Eskin visits Katharine and E. B. White's salt-water farm in Brooklin, Maine
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 15, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Tom Bissell on Jennifer Hale and the "Mass Effect" trilogy
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 08, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Stephen Greenblatt on Lucretius and his poem "On the Nature of Things"
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Suketu Mehta on illegal immigrants
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 25, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Calvin Trillin on the Freedom Riders.
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 18, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Philip Gourevitch on the Rwandan national cycling team
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Jul 05, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ben McGrath and Amy Davidson on Super Sam Fuld
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 27, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Nicholas Lemann on city living
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 20, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Susan Morrison, Nick Paumgarten, and Lizzie Widdicombe on The Talk of the Town
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Jun 14, 2011
"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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
The translators Brian Boyd and Olga Voronina on Nabokov's correspondence with his wife
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 06, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ariel Levy on Italian men, women, and prime ministers
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, May 31, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Rachel Aviv on patients who deny their mental illness
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 23, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Michael Specter on lab-grown meat
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 16, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Seabrook on obesity and snacking
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 09, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Kelefa Sanneh on reality television
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, May 03, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Lauren Collins on the British royal wedding
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 25, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Alex Ross listens to Wagner's "Die Walkure"
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 18, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Nancy Franklin on the return of "Upstairs Downstairs"
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 11, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Laura Miller on the epic fantasy author George R. R. Martin
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 04, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Adam Gopnik on human and computer intelligence
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 28, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Alexandra Jacobs on Spanx
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 21, 2011
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ian Frazier on his urban wanderings
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 14, 2011
Ian Frazier on his urban wanderings.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Denby on the films of Abbas Kiarostami
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 07, 2011
David Denby on the films of Abbas Kiarostami.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Elif Batuman on Turkish soccer fans
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 28, 2011
Elif Batuman on Turkish soccer fans.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Tad Friend on the asteroid threat
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Feb 22, 2011
Tad Friend on the asteroid threat.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Adam Gopnik on the Internet revolution
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 14, 2011
Adam Gopnik on the Internet revolution.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Lawrence Wright talks about Paul Haggis and Scientology
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 07, 2011
Lawrence Wright talks about Paul Haggis and Scientology.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Francisco Goldman on the death of his wife
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 31, 2011
Francisco Goldman on the death of his wife.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Elizabeth Kolbert and Evan Osnos on the tiger-mother furor
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 24, 2011
Elizabeth Kolbert and Evan Osnos on the tiger-mother furor.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jon Lee Anderson on Sri Lanka
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 10, 2011
Jon Lee Anderson on Sri Lanka.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Evan Osnos on psychoanalysis in China
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 03, 2011
Evan Osnos on psychoanalysis in China.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Adam Gopnik on the state of dessert.
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Dec 28, 2010
Adam Gopnik on the state of dessert.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Peter Hessler on a Peace Corps volunteer's experience in Washington
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 13, 2010
Peter Hessler on a Peace Corps volunteer's experience in Washington.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Cassidy on how Chinese state capitalism takes after the U.S. and Europe
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 06, 2010
John Cassidy on how Chinese state capitalism takes after the U.S. and Europe.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Gay Talese on the soprano Marina Poplavskaya
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 29, 2010
Gay Talese on the soprano Marina Poplavskaya.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
James Wood on the unhinged power of Keith Moon
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 22, 2010
James Wood on the unhinged power of Keith Moon.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Burkhard Bilger on the underground food movement
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 15, 2010
Burkhard Bilger on the underground food movement.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Judith Thurman on Cleopatra
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 08, 2010
Judith Thurman on Cleopatra.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jianying Zha on the writer Wang Meng
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Jianying Zha on the writer Wang Meng.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Roz Chast on her career at The New Yorker
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 25, 2010
Roz Chast on her career at The New Yorker.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Lauren Collins on the Tories' new philosophy
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 18, 2010
Lauren Collins on the Tories' new philosophy.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
William Finnegan on a Tijuana police chief's campaign against corruption
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 11, 2010
William Finnegan on a Tijuana police chief's campaign against corruption.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Henry Bromell on writing
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 04, 2010
Henry Bromell, from short stories to "Rubicon."
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Evan Osnos on the Dalai Lama
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 27, 2010
Evan Osnos on the Dalai Lama.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Rebecca Mead on staging F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 20, 2010
Rebecca Mead on staging F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Louis Menand on the pleasure of parody
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 13, 2010
Louis Menand on the pleasure of parody.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Judith Thurman on Roland Barthes, writer and son.
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Sep 07, 2010
Judith Thurman on Roland Barthes, writer and son.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
A Reporting Life
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 30, 2010
Lillian Ross remembers Hemingway, Salinger, and sixty-five years at The New Yorker.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Oliver Sacks on living with face blindness
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 23, 2010
Oliver Sacks on living with face blindness.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Patricia Marx on buying a car in New York
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 16, 2010
Patricia Marx on buying a car in New York.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Sasha Frere-Jones on the changing role of record labels
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 09, 2010
Sasha Frere-Jones on the changing role of record labels.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Nicholson Baker examines video games
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 02, 2010
Nicholson Baker examines video games.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Kelefa Sanneh on the music of Brad Paisley
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Kelefa Sanneh on the music of Brad Paisley.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jonathan Franzen on the slaughter of songbirds in Europe
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 19, 2010
Jonathan Franzen on the slaughter of songbirds in Europe.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ben McGrath on David Ortiz's career as a designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 12, 2010
Ben McGrath on David Ortiz's career as a designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Barbara Demick on the experiences of North Korean refugees
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Jul 06, 2010
Barbara Demick on the experiences of North Korean refugees.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Rebecca Mead on playgrounds
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 28, 2010
Rebecca Mead on how playground design affects children's brains.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Jun 22, 2010
Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Hampton Sides, Daniel Alarcon, and Burkhard Bilger on the World Cup
Author: The New Yorker
Fri, Jun 11, 2010
Hampton Sides, Daniel Alarcon, and Burkhard Bilger on the World Cup.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon on the 20 Under 40 list
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Jun 08, 2010
Fiction editors Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon on The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Joan Acocella on the allure of the circus
Author: The New Yorker
Wed, Jun 02, 2010
Joan Acocella on the allure of the circus.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
William Finnegan on the Mexican crime cartel La Familia
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 24, 2010
William Finnegan on the Mexican crime cartel La Familia.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Alec Wilkinson on Los Tigres del Norte
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 17, 2010
Alec Wilkinson on Los Tigres del Norte.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Alex Ross on the history and future of movie music
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 10, 2010
Alex Ross on the history and future of movie music.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Seabrook on adopting a Haitian child after the earthquake
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, May 04, 2010
John Seabrook on adopting a Haitian child after the earthquake.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Peter Hessler and Evan Osnos on living abroad and returning to America
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 26, 2010
Peter Hessler and Evan Osnos on living abroad and returning to America.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Janis Bellow on the letters of Saul Bellow
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Apr 20, 2010
Janis Bellow on the letters of her late husband, Saul Bellow.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Elif Batuman on rediscovering lost Turkish recipes
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 12, 2010
Elif Batuman on rediscovering lost Turkish recipes.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Samuels investigates a gang of Balkan jewel thieves
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 05, 2010
David Samuels investigates a gang of Balkan jewel thieves.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Adam Gopnik discusses the French culinary movement Le Fooding
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 29, 2010
Adam Gopnik discusses the French culinary movement Le Fooding.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jill Lepore on disturbing origins of marriage counselling
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 22, 2010
Jill Lepore on the disturbing origins of marriage counselling.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John McPhee on lacrosse and writing
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 15, 2010
John McPhee on lacrosse and writing.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Colapinto on the music of Esperanza Spalding
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 08, 2010
John Colapinto on the music of Esperanza Spalding.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Judith Thurman on the work of Marina Abramovic
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Judith Thurman on the work of Marina Abramovic.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Louis Menand on depression
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 22, 2010
Louis Menand looks at the contradictory ways we understand and treat depression.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
George Packer and Susan Orlean on Twitter
Author: The New Yorker
Wed, Feb 17, 2010
George Packer and Susan Orlean on Twitter.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Remnick on the heroes of the civil-rights era
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 08, 2010
David Remnick on the heroes of the civil-rights era.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Kelefa Sanneh on the gospel singer Tonex
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Kelefa Sanneh on the gospel singer Tonex.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Meghan O'Rourke on grief
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 25, 2010
The cultural history of mourning and grief.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Daniel Mendelsohn on memoirs
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Jan 19, 2010
Personal confessions, from St. Augustine to James Frey.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel in translation.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Cassidy on the Chicago School and the financial crisis
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
How economists are responding to the financial crisis.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Denby and Richard Brody on their favorite films of the decade
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 28, 2009
David Denby and Richard Brody discuss their favorite films of the year and the decade.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Fen Montaigne on Adélie penguins
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Fen Montaigne discusses the five months he spent working alongside the ecologist Bill Fraser, studying the declining Adélie penguin populations in Antarctica.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John McWhorter on Louis Armstrong
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 07, 2009
John McWhorter discusses Louis Armstrong's unchanging musical style, the controversy over his public persona, and the underestimation of his genius.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Platon on photographing world leaders
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
Platon discusses his portfolio of portraits of world leaders.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ariel Levy on Caster Semenya
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
Ariel Levy discusses the controversy over Caster Semenya's gender, and the implications of her story for sports and society.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Calvin Trillin on poutine
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Margaret Talbot on nightmares
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 09, 2009
Margaret Talbot discusses imagery-rehearsal therapy, which helps patients to edit their nightmares into more benign dreams
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Lawrence Wright on Israel and Hamas
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
Lawrence Wright talks to Blake Eskin about the violent conflict between Israel and Hamas and the difficulties he faced in reporting.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Robert Mankoff and Zachary Kanin on cartoons
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
Robert Mankoff and Zachary Kanin discuss Cartoon Kit, the Caption Contest, vampires, and how both guests found their voices as cartoonists.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Sasha Frere-Jones on hip-hop
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 19, 2009
Sasha Frere-Jones discusses the future of hip-hop.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Rebecca Mead and Daniel Zalewski on children's books
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
Rebecca Mead and Daniel Zalewski discuss books for children and young adults.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jill Lepore on scientific management
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 05, 2009
Jill Lepore talks about the pioneers of scientific management, Frederick Winslow Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Robert Polidori on the UN
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 28, 2009
Robert Polidori discusses the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Adam Gopnik on Alfred Dreyfus
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 21, 2009
Adam Gopnik talks about Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer arrested in 1894 for espionage in France.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Critics on fall highlights
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
John Lahr, Peter Schjeldahl, and Nancy Franklin discuss the fall season's theatre, art, and television highlights.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Alexandra Jacobs on Zappos
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Sep 08, 2009
Alexandra Jacobs talks about the online shoe store Zappos.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Grann on Cameron Todd Willingham
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
David Grann talks about Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004 for setting a fire that killed his three children.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Burkhard Bilger on Bob and Mike Bryan
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
Burkhard Bilger talks about Bob and Mike Bryan, identical twins who are champion tennis partners.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Alex Ross on fictional music
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 17, 2009
Alex Ross talks about the fictional music of composers in literature.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Seabrook on rock concerts
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 10, 2009
John Seabrook talks about the history of the rock-concert industry.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ian Frazier on Siberia
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 03, 2009
Ian Frazier discusses his road trip across Siberia.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Kelefa Sanneh on Michael Savage
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 27, 2009
Kelefa Sanneh on talk-show host Michael Savage.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Larissa MacFarquhar on kidney donation
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 20, 2009
Larissa MacFarquhar on the issues surrounding kidney donation.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Paul Rudnick on Hollywood and nuns
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 13, 2009
Paul Rudnick on Hollywood and nuns.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Raffi Khatchadourian on war crimes
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 29, 2009
Raffi Khatchadourian on a war crime in Iraq.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jill Lepore on parenthood
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 22, 2009
Jill Lepore on parenthood.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Lauren Collins on Nora Roberts
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 15, 2009
Lauren Collins on Nora Roberts and the history of the romance novel.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Sasha Frere-Jones on summer jams
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 08, 2009
Sasha Frere-Jones shares his all-time favorite summer jam, and discusses some of the current songs and artists he's excited about.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Louis Menand on writing workshops
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
Louis Menand talks about writing workshops.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Elizabeth Kolbert on mass extinctions
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 18, 2009
Elizabeth Kolbert on the history of mass extinctions.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Nick Paumgarten on the financial crisis
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 11, 2009
Nick Paumgarten on understanding the financial crisis.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Tom Shone on J. G. Ballard
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 04, 2009
Tom Shone discusses J. G. Ballard's novels and the films they inspired.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Philip Gourevitch on Rwanda
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 27, 2009
Philip Gourevitch on how a country of murderers and survivors manage to live together.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Elif Batuman on Harvard's bells
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 20, 2009
Elif Batuman on the return of Harvard's bells to Russia.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Burkhard Bilger on Florida’s wildlife
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 13, 2009
Burkhard Bilger on Florida’s problem with invasive exotic wildlife.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Kelefa Sanneh on Katt Williams
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 06, 2009
Kelefa Sanneh on the comedian Katt Williams.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Peter Schjeldahl on the emotional power of painting
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 30, 2009
Peter Schjeldahl on the emotional power of painting.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Evan Osnos on China's economy
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
Evan Osnos on the economic slowdown in China.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Keith Gessen on Anna Politkovskaya
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
Keith Gessen discusses the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Joan Acocella on vampires
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 09, 2009
Joan Acocella discusses the enduring appeal of vampires
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Sasha Frere-Jones on Lily Allen
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 02, 2009
Sasha Frere-Jones talks about the music and fame of Lily Allen.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ariel Levy on Lamar Van Dyke
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 23, 2009
Ariel Levy discusses Lamar Van Dyke and the world of lesbian separatists.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Louis Menand on Donald Barthelme
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Feb 17, 2009
Louis Menand talks about the writer Donald Barthelme.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Evan Osnos on African merchants in China
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 02, 2009
Evan Osnos talks about African merchants in China.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Remnick interviews Tzipi Livni
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 26, 2009
David Remnick interviews the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Tzipi Livni, at Kennedy Airport on January 17th.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ben McGrath on doomsaying
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Jan 20, 2009
Ben McGrath talks about predictions of economic and social collapse, the history of doomsaying, and the future of the American Dream.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Judith Thurman on Scrabble
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 12, 2009
Judith Thurman talks about the importance of Scrabble to her own family, and her adventures playing online.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke on photography
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 05, 2009
Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke discuss photography.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ariel Levy on The Joy of Sex
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 29, 2008
Ariel Levy discusses The Joy of Sex and its relevancy.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Zadie Smith on her family
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
Zadie Smith writes about comedy and her family.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Wendell Steavenson on Georgia and Russia
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 08, 2008
Wendell Steavenson discusses the tensions between Georgia and Russia, and how Georgia has changed since she lived there, in the late nineteen-nineties.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Larissa MacFarquhar on Naomi Klein
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 01, 2008
Larissa MacFarquhar discusses Naomi Klein and her book "The Shock Doctrine."
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
James Wood on V. S. Naipaul
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 24, 2008
James Wood discusses V. S. Naipaul.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Strange Brews
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 17, 2008
Burkhard Bilger talks about the rise of extreme beer.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
George Packer on President Obama
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 10, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Lanchester on finance
Author: The New Yorker
Fri, Oct 31, 2008
John Lanchester on why derivatives are like modernist art and what his father, a banker, would have thought of what finance has become.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Bruce McCall on cartoons
Author: The New Yorker
Fri, Oct 24, 2008
Bruce McCall on his drawing for the Cartoon Issue, his artistic process, and his career.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Kelefa Sanneh and David Denby on political impersonation
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 20, 2008
Kelefa Sanneh and David Denby on the pleasures and perils of political
impersonation.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Better Late
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 13, 2008
Malcolm Gladwell on genius and precocity.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Back at the Ranch
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 06, 2008
Pamela Colloff discusses George W. Bush and Crawford, Texas.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Raffi Khatchadourian on illegal lumber
Author: The New Yorker
Wed, Oct 01, 2008
Raffi Khatchadourian explains how an illegally harvested tree in Russia can become a toilet seat in an American home.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Platon on photographing the military
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 22, 2008
Platon on photographing members of the military and their families.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Elephant in the Room
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 15, 2008
Adam Gopnik discusses the controversy behind Babar and the books' enduring appeal.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ariel Levy on Cindy McCain
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 08, 2008
Ariel Levy on Cindy McCain and the women of the 2008 election.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
The Face of the Surge
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, Sep 02, 2008
Steve Coll discusses General David Petraeus's duties in Iraq and his role in information operations.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Prime Time
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 25, 2008
The New Yorker's television critic, Nancy Franklin, discusses the Beijing Olympics and why great television is such a rare thing.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Adams on San Francisco
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 18, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Grann on Frederic Bourdin
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 04, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Kelefa Sanneh on Tavis Smiley
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 28, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Samuels on medical marijuana
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 21, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jill Lepore and Roger Angell on E. B. White
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 14, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Seymour M. Hersh on Iran
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 30, 2008
Seymour M. Hersh talks about the Bush Administrations secret campaign against Iran.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Atul Gawande on itching
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 23, 2008
Atul Gawande explores the science behind itching and describes one extreme case of a woman who couldn't stop scratching.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Peter J. Boyer on Keith Olbermann
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 16, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Perfect Pitch
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jun 02, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Paul Goldberger on Olympic architecture
Author: The New Yorker
Tue, May 27, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ian Frazier on a writers' workshop
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 19, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Sue Halpern on Virtual Iraq
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 12, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Margaret Talbot on animal language and cognition
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, May 05, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
William Finnegan on human trafficking
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 28, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Burkhard Bilger on field recording
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 21, 2008
Burkhard Bilger talks about the history of field recording, and introduces samples from the folklorist Art Rosenbaum's recordings.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jonathan Franzen on China
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 14, 2008
Jonathan Franzen talks about his journey to China.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Joan Acocella on "Dancing with the Stars"
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Apr 07, 2008
Joan Acocella dissects "Dancing with the Stars."
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ben McGrath on Lenny Dykstra
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 17, 2008
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Adam Gopnik on modern magic
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 10, 2008
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.
Download File - 10.1 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Michael Chabon on superhero costumes
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Mar 03, 2008
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.
Download File - 10.1 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Honor Moore on her father
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 25, 2008
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.
Download File - 10.1 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Michael Specter on carbon pollution
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 18, 2008
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.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
George Packer on his play "Betrayed"
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 11, 2008
George Packer talks about "Betrayed," a play he adapted from his The New Yorker article of the same title.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Francoise Mouly on the Eustace Tilley Contest
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Feb 04, 2008
The New Yorkers art editor, Francoise Mouly, talks with Matt Dellinger about the nearly three hundred submissions to the Eustace Tilley Contest.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Paul Muldoon on rock and poetry
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 28, 2008
The New Yorker's poetry editor, Paul Muldoon, talks with Matt Dellinger about rock and roll and the state of poetry.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Steve Coll on Pakistan
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 21, 2008
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.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Lawrence Wright on Mike McConnell
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 14, 2008
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.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Denby on Otto Preminger
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jan 07, 2008
David Denby talks about the director Otto Preminger and the films of 2007.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Burkhard Bilger on 211 Pearl Street
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 24, 2007
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.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Lahr on Harold Pinter
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 17, 2007
John Lahr talks about what he learned from the playwright Harold Pinter, and how Pinter changed theatre.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Gray Matter
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Dec 10, 2007
Malcolm Gladwell on race and I.Q.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Nick Paumgarten on Eliot Spitzer
Author: The New Yorker
Fri, Nov 30, 2007
Nick Paumgarten on Eliot Spitzer's difficult first year as Governor, and whether he's likely to change.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Michael Specter on retroviruses
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 26, 2007
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Gahan Wilson on comics
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 19, 2007
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jon Lee Anderson on Iraq
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 12, 2007
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.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jeffrey Toobin on Clarence Thomas
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Nov 05, 2007
Jeffrey Toobin on the recent memoir by the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and on his own book "The Nine."
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Raffi Khatchadourian on Paul Watson
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 29, 2007
Raffi Khatchadourian talks about high-seas vigilante Paul Watson and his thirty-year crusade to save the oceans.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ryan Lizza on Mitt Romney
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 22, 2007
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.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Sasha Frere-Jones on miscegenation in American music
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 15, 2007
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.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
William Finnegan on Kosovo
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 08, 2007
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.
Download File - 11.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Alex Ross on his new book
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Oct 01, 2007
Alex Ross talks about his new book, his blog, and the New Yorker Festival.
Download File - 10.1 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Remnick interviews Garry Kasparov
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 24, 2007
David Remnick interviews Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and political activist, about the Putin regime and Russia's future.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Dana Goodyear on Kim Hastreiter
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 17, 2007
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.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Mark Singer on Joyce Hatto
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Sep 10, 2007
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.
Download File - 11.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jane Kramer on her kitchen
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 27, 2007
Jane Kramer talks about her kitchen in Italy and eating with the cookbook writer Claudia Roden.
Download File - 11.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
John Seabrook on seed banks
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 20, 2007
John Seabrook talks about the worlds first global seed bank and the importance of biological diversity.
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Peter J. Boyer on Rudy Giuliani
Author: The New Yorker
Sun, Aug 12, 2007
Peter J. Boyer talks about the unique appeal of Rudy Giuliani.
Download File - 9.4 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Denby on Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Aug 06, 2007
David Denby talks about the work of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Download File - 6.6 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Elizabeth Kolbert on bees
Author: The New Yorker
Mon, Jul 30, 2007
Elizabeth Kolbert talks about her back-yard hive and the fate of the honeybee.
Download File - 9.4 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
David Remnick on Avraham Burg
Author: The New Yorker
Fri, Jul 20, 2007
David Remnick discusses Avraham Burg's inflammatory comments and the current mood of Israel.
Download File - 10.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Jon Lee Anderson on the Taliban
Author: The New Yorker
Fri, Jun 29, 2007
Jon Lee Anderson talks about a battle with the Taliban in the poppy fields of Afghanistan
Download File - 8.2 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Ken Auletta on Rupert Murdoch
Author: The New Yorker
Fri, Jun 22, 2007
Ken Auletta discusses Rupert Murdoch's WSJ takeover bid.
Download File - 10.1 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
T028345
Social Sciences
Current Events
Politics
Contemporary Issues
|