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1939 - “Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem

Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.

1939 - “Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem

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Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

Episodes

“Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem

Why Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers

Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death

A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel

Anna Wintour as Vogue Icon

Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI

Pick Three: Spring Sports News

How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine

A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice

John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling

Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Is Cuba Trump’s Next Target?

Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Which Is Nominated for Eight Academy Awards

Social Media Goes to Court

Ryan Coogler on “Sinners,” His Epic Film about Race, Music, and the Undead

The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran

Failed “Finance Bros” Find Success with HBO’s “Industry”

What Could Go Wrong, or Right, in a War with Iran

The Evidence on Ozempic to Treat Addiction

Conan O’Brien on What Can Go Wrong at the Oscars

Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards

What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein

Jenin Younes on Threats to Free Speech from the Left and the Right

Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement

The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump

How Bari Weiss Is Changing CBS News

How Tucker Carlson Became the Prophet of MAGA

How Betting Took Over Sports

With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics

Does Every Marriage Need a Prenup?

Trump’s New Brand of Imperialism

Demi Moore Talks with Jia Tolentino

Salsa Star Rubén Blades on Acting, Politics, and the Power of Music

Elaine Pagels on “The Historical Mystery of Jesus”

The Company Behind the A.I. Boom

Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race

Poetry as a Cistern for Love and Loss

Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes

Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow on “The New Yorker at 100,” a Documentary

Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Her Film About William Shakespeare’s Grief

Senator Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents

Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney

Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster

Why Is Leaving MAGA So Difficult?

Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis in Washington

Rewriting Art History at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025

Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album, “Horses”

What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker

From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives”

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