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Memoir Explores Gender Roles in Pakistan

Publication Date: 2018-09-10

Author Khalida Brohi's new memoir is I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan. Brohi is from Pakistan where she was raised to resp...

Please Explain: Bad Habits and Self-Destructive Behavior

Publication Date: 2018-09-07

For this week’s 'Please Explain' Dr. Richard O’Connor will help us overcome some of the most common self-destructive habits, including procrastinatio...

A Tale of Modern India Based on King Lear

Publication Date: 2018-09-07

Preti Taneja discusses her new novel, We That Are Young. The book charts the journey of a young man who returns home to India after a long absence. A...

Ethan Hawke's Ode to Blaze Foley

Publication Date: 2018-09-07

Ethan Hawke and Ben Dickey discuss their new film Blaze. The film was written and directed by Hawke and stars Dickey who plays Blaze Foley, a country...

The Families Getting Rich from Toxic Chemicals

Publication Date: 2018-09-07

Jamie Lincoln Kitman, New York bureau chief for Automobile Magazine, discusses his latest piece in The Nation: “Worse Than Lead?” The article looks a...

The Joy of Simple Things

Publication Date: 2018-09-06

Ingrid Fetell Lee discusses her new book Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness. Lee explores how the seem...

Kusama to Infinity and Beyond

Publication Date: 2018-09-06

Heather Lenz discusses her new documentary, Kusama – Infinity, which opens September 7 in Los Angeles and New York and nationwide September 14. Now t...

The Supreme Court's Move to the Right

Publication Date: 2018-09-06

New York Times staff writer Emily Bazelon discusses her latest piece in the New York Times Magazine, “The G.O.P. Plan To Rule The Courts (online as \...

Small Town Police Abuses Continue

Publication Date: 2018-09-06

Senior reporting fellow at ProPublica Ian MacDougall discusses his recent piece “How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses.”...

New Lessons for a New Way of Living

Publication Date: 2018-09-05

Yuval Harari discusses his new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and di...

Vulnerabilities of an Inter-connected World

Publication Date: 2018-09-05

Bruce Schneier discusses his new book Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World. Computers are connected to ever...

Lee Breuer's 'Gospel at Colonus'

Publication Date: 2018-09-05

The Public and the Onassis Foundation USA are partnering to remount MacArthur Genius Grant winner Lee Breuer's landmark “Gospel at Colonus.” Set in t...

Sound of Music for Rare Silent Movies

Publication Date: 2018-09-05

Ben Model is a silent film accompanist, historian, and DVD distributor whose Undercrank Productions DVD label releases rare, lost or overlooked films...

Gary Shteyngart's Latest Novel

Publication Date: 2018-09-04

Gary Shteyngart discusses his new novel Lake Success. The book follows an unhappy Manhattan couple as they navigate a crumbling marriage, having a yo...

Techniques for Making Difficult Decisions

Publication Date: 2018-09-04

Steven Johnson discusses his new book Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most. Johnson uncovers powerful tools for honing the impo...

Behind the Scenes of the Supreme Court

Publication Date: 2018-09-04

David A. Kaplan discusses his new book The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution. Based on exclusive intervie...

Narratives from Around the World

Publication Date: 2018-09-04

Billy Gerard Frank and Lydia Darly discuss creating the Nova Frontier Film Festival which takes place in Brooklyn from September 7 to 9. The festival...

Please Explain: Milk

Publication Date: 2018-08-31

For our latest Please Explain Mark Kurlansky discusses his book Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas. He traces the liquid's diverse history from antiqui...

Diana Henry's Latest Cookbook is Just Peachy

Publication Date: 2018-08-31

Diana Henry discusses her book, How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places. Henry offers menus that are introduced with personal essays about plac...

Wines Making a Global Impact

Publication Date: 2018-08-31

Executive wine editor at Food & Wine Magazine, Ray Isle, discusses his article, “40 Wines That Changed the Way We Drink.” He offers his unique pe...

An Odyssey into the Origins of Wine

Publication Date: 2018-08-31

Journalist Kevin Begos discusses Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine. Begos embarked on a ten-year journey...

Reopening the Dinosaur Debate

Publication Date: 2018-08-30

Bianca Bosker, author and contributing editor at The Atlantic, discusses her recent piece, "The Nastiest Feud in Science." Bosker profiles paleonto...

Scams Target Undocumented Immigrants

Publication Date: 2018-08-30

Micah Hauser’s new report in the September 2018 issue of Harper’s Magazine titled, “The Deportation Racket,” takes a close look at how “con artists a...

The Implications of Gene Editing

Publication Date: 2018-08-30

Journalist Stephen S. Hall discusses his cover story in Wired Magazine, “The Mutant Future of Food,” (online as "CRISPR Can Speed Up Nature--And Cha...

Germs and Food Safety

Publication Date: 2018-08-30

Paul Dawson discusses his forthcoming book, co-authored with Brian Sheldon, titled Did You Just Eat That?: Two Scientists Explore Double-Dipping, the...

Life Shaped by Coding

Publication Date: 2018-08-29

Technologist David Auerbach discusses his new memoir Bitwise: A Life in Code. He breaks down how computers and algorithms affect us in our everyday l...

Cars Are Collecting Your Personal Information

Publication Date: 2018-08-29

Christina Rogers discusses her recent piece in The Wall Street Journal titled “What Your Car Knows About You.” She looks at the data being collected ...

Cars are Collecting Your Personal Information

Publication Date: 2018-08-29

Christina Rogers discusses her recent piece in The Wall Street Journal titled “What Your Car Knows About You.” She looks at the data being collected ...

The Truth about Activist Investors

Publication Date: 2018-08-29

In The New Yorker article "The Doomsday Investor," (online as "Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor") Sheelah Kolhatkar reports on activist investors w...

"Plant Blindness" Afflicts the U.S.

Publication Date: 2018-08-29

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled, “Rhododendron? Hydrangea? America Doesn’t Know Anymore,” in which journalist Douglas Be...

Sex Workers Find a Voice in the Midterms

Publication Date: 2018-08-28

Aída Chávez discusses her new piece for The Intercept titled “Sex Workers are Rallying Behind a Democratic Socialist Running for New York Senate.” Th...

Understanding the Washington Investigations

Publication Date: 2018-08-28

WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, hosts of the "Trump Inc." podcast, discuss Robert Mueller's investigation, Paul Manafort's trial, Michael...

The Stories that Make Us Who We Are

Publication Date: 2018-08-28

Podcast host Kevin Allison discusses his new book RISK!: True Stories People Never Thought They'd Dare to Share. Collecting the most celebrated stori...

Solutions for the Opioid Epidemic

Publication Date: 2018-08-28

Ryan Hampton discusses his new book American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It. Through the successful non-profit organiza...

The Beatles, Gone but Not Forgotten

Publication Date: 2018-08-27

Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield discusses his new book Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World. In this collection...

The Fall of the Calabrian Mafia

Publication Date: 2018-08-27

Alex Perry discusses his book The Good Mothers: The Story of the Three Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia. The book tells the story of...

The Only Girl at Rolling Stone Magazine

Publication Date: 2018-08-27

Acclaimed writer Robin Green discusses her memoir The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone. In 1971, Robin Green was hired a...

The Inflated Cost of Knee-replacement Surgery

Publication Date: 2018-08-27

Wall Street Journal reporter Melanie Evans discusses her recent piece about, “What Does Knee Surgery Cost? Few Know, and That’s a Problem.” Evans loo...

Please Explain: Herbal Remedies

Publication Date: 2018-08-24

For Please Explain, Sara-Chana Silverstein discusses her book, Moodtopia: Tame Your Moods, De-Stress, and Find Balance Using Herbal Remedies, Aromat...

A Groundbreaking Globetrotter

Publication Date: 2018-08-24

Jessica Nabongo is on a mission to be the first Black woman to visit all 195 UN member countries and observing states. Nabongo’s goal is to be an ex...

Is the World Ready for Male Birth Control?

Publication Date: 2018-08-24

Sarah Ellis discusses her new article in ReWire.News titled “Biology, Funding, and Ego Slow Quest for Male Birth Control.” Ellis looks at the obstacl...

Investigating the Relationship Between Men & Violence

Publication Date: 2018-08-24

Thomas Page McBee discusses his new book Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man. McBee, a trans man, charts his journey training to fight in a ...

The Decline of Labor Unions

Publication Date: 2018-08-23

Harper’s Magazine contributing editor Garret Keizer discusses his latest piece in the September issue “Labor’s Last Stand.” Keizer writes about how t...

Whistleblower Cops Refuse to Meet Arrest Quotas in New Documentary

Publication Date: 2018-08-23

Director Steven Maing, private investigator Manuel Gomez, and police officer Pedro Serrano discuss the documentary, Crime + Punishment. The film chro...

A New Musical Explores the Temptation of Popularity

Publication Date: 2018-08-23

Joe Iconis, Will Roland, and George Salazar discuss the new musical Be More Chill. The play compares the fantasy of living the "perfect life" again...

Sasson Gabay Takes the Lead in The Band's Visit

Publication Date: 2018-08-23

Sasson Gabay discusses what it’s like to take over for Tony Shalhoub as the lead in Broadway hit The Band’s Visit, which won 10 Tony Awards this year...

A Chicago High School Faces Systemic Challenges

Publication Date: 2018-08-22

Director Steve James discusses his new series America to Me, a 10-part series that follows students, faculty, and families over the course of one yea...

Behind the Scenes of Electoral Polling

Publication Date: 2018-08-22

CBS News’ Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto discusses his new book Where Did You Get This Number?: A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense o...

Can Worms Explain How Life Started on Earth?

Publication Date: 2018-08-22

Katherine Kornei discusses her recent article in Scientific American, “Tiny Worms Survive Forces 400,000 Times Stronger Than Gravity on Earth.” Recen...

Activists Put a Check on Data Collection

Publication Date: 2018-08-22

Nicholas Confessore discusses his New York Times Magazine cover story, “Under Their Thumb,” (online as "The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon V...

When the New York Times Published Reviews By a Prisoner

Publication Date: 2018-08-21

Tina Jordan, editor and columnist for the New York Times Book Review, discusses book reviews written by a Sing Sing prisoner and published in The New...

Tirades for the Politically Hopeless

Publication Date: 2018-08-21

Will Menaker, Brendan James and Matthew Christman discuss their new book The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason....

The Surprising History of Oklahoma City

Publication Date: 2018-08-21

New York Times Magazine staff writer Sam Anderson discusses his literary debut, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Foundin...

The Real Reasons Americans are Sick

Publication Date: 2018-08-21

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges discusses his new book America: The Farewell Tour. Hedges says many of the diseases Americans are suffe...

The Science Behind a Face Transplant

Publication Date: 2018-08-20

National Geographic editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg and Dr. Maria Siemionow of the Cleveland Clinic discuss the cover story for the magazine’s Septembe...

The History Between Trump and Putin

Publication Date: 2018-08-20

Craig Unger discusses his new book House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia, which offers the first co...

Emily Mortimer Pushes Boundaries in The Bookshop

Publication Date: 2018-08-20

Emily Mortimer discusses starring in the new film, The Bookshop. Set in 1959 England, the film follows widow Florence Green, played by Mortimer. She ...

Takedown in the Bronx, Emily Mortimer Stars in The Bookshop, A Groundbreaking Face Transplant

Publication Date: 2018-08-20

Mirela Iverac reported for two years on crime in the Bronx; her series, “Takedown in the Bronx,” documents the upswell in police activity in the boro...

Bronx Crime Continues Despite Mass Police Actions

Publication Date: 2018-08-20

Last month the NYPD reported that overall crime in the city has declined, but the Bronx has seen murders nearly double in 2018. This comes two years ...

21st Century Space Race

Publication Date: 2018-08-17

Nicholas Schmidle's story for the August 20 issue of The New Yorker is titled “Rocket Man: The ace pilot leading Virgin Galactic's billion-dollar que...

Re-imagining an Antique Fireboat for a New Exhibition

Publication Date: 2018-08-17

Curator Emma Enderby discusses Tauba Auerbach's exhibition Flow Separation. Her work transforms the historic fireboat John J. Harvey with a "dazzle ...

Please Explain: Street Food

Publication Date: 2018-08-17

For Please Explain, we are joined by Jennifer Schiff Berg, director of graduate food studies at NYU; Mohamed Attia, a former vendor and the new co-di...

A New Film Explores the Bonds of Brotherhood

Publication Date: 2018-08-17

We The Animals is a new film by Jeremiah Zagar starring Raul Castillo, based on the 2011 debut novel by Justin Torres. The film follows three brother...

North Korean Women Defect to the South

Publication Date: 2018-08-16

In her recent piece “On the Other Side” for The California Sunday Magazine, writer Ann Babe chronicles women from North Korea smuggling themselves th...

Examining Black Art and Representation

Publication Date: 2018-08-16

Deborah Willis, the newly appointed director of the Institute of African-American Affairs at NYU discusses the program's fall 2018 programming, The B...

Governments Campaigning to Control the Narrative

Publication Date: 2018-08-16

Michael Riley discusses his article for Bloomberg Businessweek, “A Global Guide to State Sponsored Trolling.” Governments around the world are using ...

What's Wrong with Dodd-Frank?

Publication Date: 2018-08-16

Professor Michael Greenberger's recent paper, "Too Big to Fail Banks' Regulatory Alchemy," highlights the loophole in Dodd-Frank that allows for th...

Foster Care Placements on the Rise

Publication Date: 2018-08-15

Attorney Joanna Woolman, the director of the Child Protection Program at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and Suzanne Sellers, the executive direct...

Chief Justice John Marshall's Impact on America

Publication Date: 2018-08-15

Joel Richard Paul discusses his book Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times. It's the story of how Chief Justice John Marshall,...

A Closer Look at ICE Raids in NYC

Publication Date: 2018-08-15

Reporter Ryan Devereaux's new article for The Intercept is titled "ICE Has Conducted Hundreds of Raids in New York Since Trump Came to Power. Here's...

Appreciating NYC's Public Gardens

Publication Date: 2018-08-15

Jane Garmey and David Scalza discuss some of New York City's beautiful yet under-visited and under-appreciated gardens in their book City Green: Publ...

Citi's Troubling History of Instability

Publication Date: 2018-08-14

Assistant editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page James Freeman discusses the book he co-authored with Vern McKinley, Borrowed Time: Two Cen...

A Wedding Day Surprise Sparks a Memoir

Publication Date: 2018-08-14

Former Paris Review editor Jeanne McCulloch discusses her first book, All Happy Families: A Memoir. She uses a surprising event at her own wedding da...

The Fact & Fiction of Airline Travel

Publication Date: 2018-08-14

Airline pilot Patrick Smith discusses his book, Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel. Smith breaks down common fears, ...

The Jamaican-American Immigrant Experience

Publication Date: 2018-08-14

Alexia Arthurs discusses her new book How to Love a Jamaican: Stories. In her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home...

Filmmakers with Disabilities

Publication Date: 2018-08-13

Emmy Award-winning director Jon Alpert and filmmakers Jonathan Novick, Benjamin Rosloff, and Donna Cappella discuss the U.S. theatrical premiere of A...

An Intimate Look at Iran

Publication Date: 2018-08-13

New York Times correspondent Thomas Erdbrink discusses his new PBS FRONTLINE documentary, Our Man in Tehran, which is a two-night special that takes ...

The Forgotten Northern Border

Publication Date: 2018-08-13

Travel writer Porter Fox discusses his new book Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border. America’s northern border is the wo...

Celebrity Women Pushing Boundaries

Publication Date: 2018-08-13

BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen discusses her book Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, which looks at ...

America in Transition

Publication Date: 2018-08-10

Eliza Griswold discusses her new book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, which looks at how one family is facing a chang...

Leave No Trace Explores the Effects of War

Publication Date: 2018-08-10

Debra Granik discusses directing Leave No Trace, a film about a father and his thirteen-year-old daughter who lead an idyllic existence in an urban p...

Behind the Scenes of The Simpsons

Publication Date: 2018-08-10

Mike Reiss discusses Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons. A four-time Emmy winner, R...

D.L. Hughley's Advice on 'How Not to Get Shot'

Publication Date: 2018-08-10

D.L. Hughley discusses his new book How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People. Hughley, an activist and comedian offers this tongue-in-...

Maternal Mortality Rate on the Rise

Publication Date: 2018-08-09

USA Today reporter Alison Young discusses her new investigation, “Deadly Deliveries: Hospitals Know How to Protect Moms. They Just Aren’t doing It.” ...

New Film Celebrates All-Girl Skate Crew

Publication Date: 2018-08-09

Writer and director Crystal Moselle discusses her first feature film, Skate Kitchen, along with its breakout star, Rachelle Vinberg. In the first nar...

Jules Feiffer Completes His Noir Masterpiece

Publication Date: 2018-08-09

Famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer discusses his new book, The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel. The book is set in a haunted version of Hollywood and weave...

What's Wrong with Our Bodies

Publication Date: 2018-08-09

Biologist Nathan Lents of "This World of Humans" podcast discusses his new book Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to B...

Cover-Up of Toxic Chemicals in 3M Products

Publication Date: 2018-08-08

Sharon Lerner, award-winning environmental reporter and a finalist for the National Magazine Award, discusses the final installment in her 17-part “T...

An Intimate Portrait of Forbidden Love

Publication Date: 2018-08-08

Crystal Hana Kim discusses If You Leave Me: A Novel. An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love, the book focuses on t...

Home Repair That Won't Break the Bank

Publication Date: 2018-08-08

The show’s original “Gurus of How-To,” Alvin and Lawrence Ubell, discuss all things home repair. This segment is guest hosted by Nancy Giles.

Flying High, Beating the Odds

Publication Date: 2018-08-08

Keith O’Brien discusses his new book, Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Between the world wars, airplane ra...

The Effects of Charlottesville Now

Publication Date: 2018-08-07

FRONTLINE correspondent A.C. Thompson discusses Documenting Hate: Charlottesville. Made in collaboration with ProPublica, this investigation exposes ...

How the Financial Crash Changed the World

Publication Date: 2018-08-07

On the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis, Adam Tooze discusses his new book Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. Tooze...

New Production Presents a Portrait of a Life

Publication Date: 2018-08-07

Director Lila Neugebauer and actor Blair Brown discuss their play, Mary Page Marlowe, now at Second Stage Theater. Mary Page Marlowe presents as an o...

New Play Explores Freedom in the 19th Century

Publication Date: 2018-08-07

Director Lileana Blain-Cruz and actor Harriett D. Foy discuss their new production, The House That Will Not Stand. The play takes place on the eve of...

Lawrence O'Donnell & Police Brutality

Publication Date: 2018-08-06

Lawrence O’Donnell discusses his book Deadly Force: A Police Shooting and My Family’s Search for the Truth as well as the current news cycle. O’Donne...

Joseph O'Neill on Modern Day New York

Publication Date: 2018-08-06

Joseph O’Neill discusses his new book of stories, Good Trouble. From facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, O’Neill offers a close look at...

Advertising in the Digital Age

Publication Date: 2018-08-06

Ken Auletta discusses his book Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else), which looks at how the advertising industry i...

Boz Scaggs' Gets Back to His Roots

Publication Date: 2018-08-06

Boz Scaggs discusses his new album, Out of the Blues, which offers a fresh take on recordings by Bobby Blue Bland, Magic Sam, Jimmy Reed, and even Ne...

Mead Day in Brooklyn!

Publication Date: 2018-08-03

Raphael Lyon, founder, co-owner, and head mazer of Enlightenment Wines Meadery is celebrating Mead Day. On August 5, New York-based commercial mead-m...

Please Explain: Extraterrestrial Life

Publication Date: 2018-08-03

Are we alone in the universe? Is there anybody else out there? Humans have been asking these questions for centuries. Fortunately, Adam Frank, profe...

The Changing Face of Journalism

Publication Date: 2018-08-03

Michael Massing, a contributor to The Nation and the author of Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind, discusses his feat...

A New Production of 'Smokey Joe's Cafe'

Publication Date: 2018-08-02

John Edwards, Dionne D. Figgins, and Nicole Vanessa Ortiz discuss starring in Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller. The show broke reco...

Life After Foster Care

Publication Date: 2018-08-02

Jordana Spiro discusses her new film, Night Comes On. This fictional exploration of children in foster care and juvenile detention follows Angel LaMe...

Why Oil Booms Put Native Women in Danger

Publication Date: 2018-08-02

Throughout western North Dakota, Montana, and part of Canada there are multibillion-dollar oil extraction sites that attract droves of mostly transie...

An Ecosystem of Misinformation

Publication Date: 2018-08-02

Jonathan Albright is known for his ability to connect the dots between seemingly disparate stories about internet trolls and fake news. His work has ...

Revisiting the Atomic Bomb

Publication Date: 2018-08-01

Kevin Rafferty and Jayne Loader discuss the re-release of the 1982 documentary The Atomic Cafe at Film Forum on 8/1. The film instructs a naive publi...

The World on Fire

Publication Date: 2018-08-01

Richard Manning and Scott Sayare discuss their recent pieces for Harper’s Magazine, which look at the costs and causes of recent wildfires, at home a...

Candidates of Color Representing White Districts

Publication Date: 2018-08-01

Astead W. Herndon's article for The New York Times titled “The Districts Are Mostly White. The Candidates Are Not” looks at how many candidates runn...

Poultry Plant Workers Exposed to Toxic Chemicals

Publication Date: 2018-08-01

Eyal Press discusses his recent piece for The Intercept, “Something in the Air: Jessica Robertson Got Sick Working as an Inspector at a Poultry Plant...

Guy Branum Finds His Voice in New Memoir

Publication Date: 2018-07-31

Guy Branum discusses his new book, My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture. Branum always felt as if he were on the outside lookin...

Being New in America

Publication Date: 2018-07-31

Amitava Kumar discusses his new book, Immigrant, Montana: A Novel. The book tells the story of Kailash, a student from India studying at NYU. His imm...

The Border Wall 100 Years in the Making

Publication Date: 2018-07-31

Rachel St. John discusses her recent piece for the Smithsonian magazine, “The Raging Controversy at the Border Began With This Incident 100 Years Ago...

Frontline's Look at Children Separated at the Border

Publication Date: 2018-07-31

Producer Martin Smith discusses his latest Frontline documentary, Separated: Children at the Border. The film looks at what happens to immigrant chil...

New Doc Follows Up on Ferguson

Publication Date: 2018-07-30

The documentary Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising and the movement that followed after the killing of Michael Brown by a...

Film Forum Renovates & Re-Opens

Publication Date: 2018-07-30

Karen Cooper, Director of Film Forum and Mike Maggiore, its Premiere Programmer, discuss Film Forum’s recent renovation, expansion, and its reopening...

How Do You Use Twitter?

Publication Date: 2018-07-30

We’ll open the phones to take listeners’ calls about how they use Twitter. Especially in the last two years, what’s changed since its inception and w...

New Doc Follows Up on Ferguson

Publication Date: 2018-07-30

The documentary Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising and the movement that followed after the killing of Michael Brown by a...

A City of Fear for Undocumented Immigrants

Publication Date: 2018-07-30

With a drastic increase in ICE arrests and DACA’s uncertain future, many of New York’s estimated 500,000 undocumented residents fear for their safety...

Toxic Birth Control

Publication Date: 2018-07-27

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering discuss their new Netflix Original documentary, The Bleeding Edge, which chronicles the injurie...

The Daily Show Creates the Presidential Twitter Library

Publication Date: 2018-07-27

Steve Bodow, the executive producer for "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," discusses their new book: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents The D...

Please Explain: Whales

Publication Date: 2018-07-27

This week's Please Explain is all about the lives of whales! We're joined by Nick Pyenson the author of Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Futu...

A Rock Opera for the Dreamers

Publication Date: 2018-07-27

Chilina Kennedy and Theo Stockman discuss the world premiere of “This Ain’t No Disco,” a rock opera opening at the Atlantic Theater Company. Set aga...

Ray Benson and Asleep At The Wheel's New Music

Publication Date: 2018-07-26

Asleep at the Wheel founder and leader Ray Benson, who sings and plays lead guitar, and fiddler and vocalist Katie Shore discuss their new album, “Ne...

Giacometti & the Human Form at the Guggenheim

Publication Date: 2018-07-26

Megan Fontanella, curator of modern art and provenance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, discusses the Guggenheim’s new exhibit, “Giacometti,” whi...

Why Are Qualified Immigrant Recruits Being Discharged?

Publication Date: 2018-07-26

A growing number of foreign-born recruits who joined the United States military through a special program created to recruit immigrant soldiers with ...

Recycling Won't Eradicate Plastic Pollution

Publication Date: 2018-07-26

Ecologist Matt Wilkins and Environmental Sociologist Rebecca Altman, discuss the evolution of plastic in the environment, the problems it’s causing t...

New York: Capital City of Social Activism

Publication Date: 2018-07-25

Curators Steve Jaffe and Sarah Seidman discuss Jaffe’s new book, Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics. The book takes a swee...

Robert Gottlieb's New Collection of Essays

Publication Date: 2018-07-25

Robert Gottlieb discusses his book Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others. This new collection features over twenty pieces he’s written mostly for T...

JELL-O Girls: a Feminist History

Publication Date: 2018-07-25

In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. Though the generations that followed enjoy...

The ACLU's New NRA Inspired Strategy

Publication Date: 2018-07-25

Journalists Joel Lovell and Mark Joseph Stern discuss their recent reports about the evolving direction of the ACLU. Since President Trump took offic...

Terror Meets Suspense at the End of the World

Publication Date: 2018-07-24

Award-winning author Paul Tremblay discusses his new book The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel. Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and An...

What Life is Like for Children in a Detention Center

Publication Date: 2018-07-24

Reporters Annie Correal and Caitlin Dickerson discuss their recent investigation for The New York Times titled, “Cleaning Toilets, Following Rules: A...

A Deeper Look into the Opioid Epidemic

Publication Date: 2018-07-24

Bryce Covert and Zoë Carpenter discuss their recent pieces for The Nation: Covert’s “Will Red-State Protests Spark Electoral Change?” and Carpenter’s...

Glen David Gold's Heartbreaking New Memoir

Publication Date: 2018-07-24

Glen David Gold discusses his new book I Will Be Complete: A Memoir. Gold was raised rich, briefly, in southern California at the end of the go-go 19...

A Journey to Kazakhstan & Self-Discovery

Publication Date: 2018-07-23

Writer and comedian Audrey Murray discusses her book, Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architect...

The BBC's Carrie Gracie Furthers the Conversation on Equal Pay

Publication Date: 2018-07-23

Lauren Collins discusses her recent piece in The New Yorker, “What Women Want” (online titled, "How the BBC Women Are Working Toward Equal Pay"). S...

Why Women "Volunteer" at Work

Publication Date: 2018-07-23

Lise Vesterlund, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh discusses her recent article in the Harvard Business Review,...

One Journalist Held Captive for 977 Days

Publication Date: 2018-07-23

Journalist and author Michael Scott Moore discusses his memoir, The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast. Incorporating pe...

How Much Screen Time Should Kids Really Have?

Publication Date: 2018-07-20

Angela C. Santomero, award-winning creator of Blue's Clues, Super Why!, and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood discusses her book, Preschool Clues: Raising ...

Please Explain: Nollywood

Publication Date: 2018-07-20

For this week's Please Explain, Emily Witt, journalist and author of Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire, explains all things Nollywood. Nollywood...

Never Before Seen Letters from an Imprisoned Nelson Mandela

Publication Date: 2018-07-20

Sahm Venter and Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela discuss The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela. Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensifi...

Alicia Witt Celebrates '15,000 Days'

Publication Date: 2018-07-19

Singer and actor Alicia Witt discusses her upcoming EP, "15,000 Days" and the music video for her new single “Younger.” She’ll also be talking abou...

Film on Extraordinary Families in Unordinary Circumstances

Publication Date: 2018-07-19

Rachel Dretzin and Andrew Solomon discuss Dretzin’s documentary Far From the Tree, which is based on Solomon’s book of the same title. Solomon’s book...

Robert Anthony Siegel Remembers His Father in New Memoir

Publication Date: 2018-07-19

Robert Anthony Siegel discusses his new book, Criminals: My Family's Life on Both Sides of the Law. Siegel's father, a criminal defense attorney, end...

Urban Gardening: Central Park in Your Own Backyard

Publication Date: 2018-07-19

Gerard Lordahl discusses all things summer urban gardening. From what to harvest and plant, to the best kinds of potting soil, Lordahl has you covere...

U.S. Opposition to Breastfeeding Resolution

Publication Date: 2018-07-18

Andrew Jacobs, a reporter for The New York Times, discusses his article, “Opposition to Breastfeeding Resolution by U.S. Stuns World Health Officials...

Tell Us How You Came to America

Publication Date: 2018-07-18

Everyone is from somewhere else, tell us your story or the story of how your family came to America. Why did you or your family leave your country? H...

The Deradicalization of Homegrown Hate Groups

Publication Date: 2018-07-18

Wes Enzinna and Shane Johnson discuss Enzinna’s recent piece for Mother Jones, “Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacis...

The EPA's Updated Report on Formaldehyde

Publication Date: 2018-07-18

The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest report says formaldehyde is one of the most commonly used chemicals in the country. It can be found in c...

Higher Ed's Decreasing Retention Rate

Publication Date: 2018-07-17

Jon Marcus, a higher-education editor at The Hechinger Report, discusses his recent piece, “More high school grads than ever are going to college, bu...

Jim Gaffigan's Comedy Special Turns Joke on Brain Tumor

Publication Date: 2018-07-17

Jim Gaffigan discusses his sixth comedy special, Noble Ape. This comedy special gets personal as Gaffigan talks about the medical crisis that hit his...

Eilen Jewell Performs the Blues

Publication Date: 2018-07-17

Eilen Jewell performs with her 3-piece band in-studio. On July 17 Eilen Jewell and her band are performing at The Bell House in Brooklyn (149 7th St,...

How the Kremlin Threatened American Democracy

Publication Date: 2018-07-17

CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues discusses his new book, Kompromat: How Russia Undermined American Democracy. In this...

Jim Gaffigan's Comedy Special Turns Joke on Brain Tumor

Publication Date: 2018-07-17

Jim Gaffigan discusses his sixth comedy special, Noble Ape. This comedy special gets personal as Gaffigan talks about the medical crisis that hit his...

Eilen Jewell Performs the Blues

Publication Date: 2018-07-17

Singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell performs with her 4-piece band in-studio. On July 17 Eilen Jewell and her band are performing at The Bell House in Bro...

China's Railway Expansion

Publication Date: 2018-07-16

Journalist Will Doig discusses his new book, High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia. Today, China owns a network of 14...

The Making of the Families Belong Together Coalition

Publication Date: 2018-07-16

The Families Belong Together Coalition, comprised of a diverse network of organizations, recently led a 30,000 person protest in NYC against the sepa...

Death Penalty Decision Remorse

Publication Date: 2018-07-16

Lindy Lou Isonhood discusses the story behind the documentary for which she is the subject, Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2, which premieres on July 16 on ...

Detained Children Sent to Religious Adoption Agencies

Publication Date: 2018-07-16

Amy Littlefield and Tina Vasquez discuss their recent piece for Rewire News titled, “Bethany Christian Services Is Fostering Migrant Kids. It Also Ha...

'Boys in the Band' Celebrates 50 Years

Publication Date: 2018-07-13

Robin de Jesús, Charlie Carver and Tuc Watkins discuss starring in the new production Boys in the Band, which focuses on a group of gay men who gathe...

A New Production of 'Carmen Jones'

Publication Date: 2018-07-13

Tony-award winning artistic director and director John Doyle discuss the new production of Carmen Jones. This Classic Stage Company production featur...

Please Explain: Synesthesia

Publication Date: 2018-07-13

Richard E. Cytowic MD will join us for a 'Please Explain' on synesthesia. One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. This neurol...

Lynda La Plante's 'Widows' is a Murderous Thriller

Publication Date: 2018-07-13

Lynda La Plante discusses her recent book Widows, which is also the basis for Steve McQueen’s upcoming film. When their husbands are killed in a secu...

How AT&T Aided the NSA

Publication Date: 2018-07-12

Ryan Gallagher and Henrik Moltke discuss their new piece in The Intercept titled, “The Wiretap Rooms: The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities...

New Film Explains Extremist Radicalization

Publication Date: 2018-07-12

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Jonathan Hacker and Jesse Morton a former jihadist and founder of Parallel Networks, an organization dedicated to...

Policy Change for NYC's Specialized High Schools

Publication Date: 2018-07-12

Admission to New York City’s specialized high schools have always depended on single test, but all that may change as the de Blasio administration wo...

Cecil Beaton Remembered in New Documentary

Publication Date: 2018-07-12

Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland discusses her new documentary LOVE, CECIL. Cecil Beaton was a photographer, writer and painter who also designed se...

Optimism in Dark Political Times

Publication Date: 2018-07-11

Jon Meacham talks about his book The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. The title derives from what Abraham Lincoln called the “bette...

The Attack on Public Housing in Cairo, Illinois

Publication Date: 2018-07-11

Mother Jones senior reporter Tim Murphy tells the story of the housing crisis in Cairo, Illinois, and how the city has been affected by the US Depart...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Helpful or Harmful?

Publication Date: 2018-07-11

Paul Greenberg discusses his book The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet. Omega-3 fatty acids have long be...

The Intersection of Activism and Architecture

Publication Date: 2018-07-11

Nandini Bagchee discusses her book Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side. Intersecting architecture, urban design practices, g...

How World Cup Players get Paired with Teams

Publication Date: 2018-07-10

The 2018 World Cup has 736 players from around the world with many playing on teams that are not from their country of origin. Though this makes for ...

Predatory Loans Targeting Low-Income Americans

Publication Date: 2018-07-10

Peter Whoriskey, a reporter and staff writer for The Washington Post discusses his recent article, “A way of monetizing poor people: How private equi...

Sexual Assault on the Rise at Rikers

Publication Date: 2018-07-10

John H. Tucker discusses his recent investigation for New York Magazine, “Rape at Rosie’s,” along with Darcell Marshall, who is featured in the piece...

The Secret History of Silicon Valley

Publication Date: 2018-07-10

Adam Fisher discusses his new book Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley. He goes inside the secret history of Silicon Valley --...

India's New Dynasties

Publication Date: 2018-07-09

James Crabtree discusses his book The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age. Crabtree relays a personal journey through India’s e...

Has Wisconsin Become a Swing State?

Publication Date: 2018-07-09

Dan Kaufman discusses his new book The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics, whe...

Inside the Lives of the Trump Children

Publication Date: 2018-07-09

Emily Jane Fox talks about her book Born Trump: Inside America’s First Family. She goes inside the lives of President Trump’s five children and son-i...

Poetry that Reflects the Light Within

Publication Date: 2018-07-09

Caroline Kaufman used poetry as a means of coping with depression and self-harm. In 2013 when she started posting her work on an anonymous Instagram ...

The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser

Publication Date: 2018-07-06

The Beatles’ hair style set off a cultural revolution. It was the symbol of the Sixties’ psychedelic dreams of peace, love and playful rebellion, and...

The Man Who Discovered President Trump's Ties to Russia

Publication Date: 2018-07-06

New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer discusses her article in the March 12 issue, “The Man Behind the Dossier” (Online: “Christopher Steele, the Man Be...

How to Colonize Outer Space

Publication Date: 2018-07-06

Dr. Michio Kaku is planning for life on mars. In his new book The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Des...

'Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television'

Publication Date: 2018-07-06

Joy Press talks about her book Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television. Female writers, directors, and producers have radically t...

How Lyndon B. Johnson Changed America

Publication Date: 2018-07-05

Historian Joshua Zeitz discusses his book Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House. He looks at how LBJ’s Great Society progra...

Alaska, the Promise Land

Publication Date: 2018-07-05

Bestselling author Kristin Hannah discusses her new novel The Great Alone. Set in Alaska in 1974, it tells the story of two families who move to the ...

One Man's Journey from Psychosis to Sanity

Publication Date: 2018-07-05

Former attorney and writer Zack McDermott talks about his new book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love. McDermott, who is b...

David Cay Johnston on Trump's America

Publication Date: 2018-07-05

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Cay Johnston discusses his latest book It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the The Trump Administration is Doing...

How Do You Beat the Heat?

Publication Date: 2018-07-03

July is here, and so are the days of excessive heat. Listeners, we want to hear your tips and stories for surviving the sweltering summer! Did you gr...

'Conflict' Explores Passion & Politics

Publication Date: 2018-07-03

Actors Jessie Shelton and Jeremy Beck and The Mint Theater's artistic director Jonathan Bank discuss their new production, Conflict. Set in the 1920s...

Terence Stamp on Acting & Mysticism

Publication Date: 2018-07-03

Terence Stamp discusses The Ocean Fell into the Drop: A Memoir, a show business memoir that traces Terence Stamp's obsessions of acting and mysticism...

The Free Speech Battle at U.C. Berkeley

Publication Date: 2018-07-03

Andrew Marantz, a contributing editor for The New Yorker, discusses his piece "Fighting Words," which (is titled online as "How Social-Media Troll...

'Pass Over' Waits for Things Not Promised

Publication Date: 2018-07-02

Actors Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood are joined by playwright Antoinette Nwandu to discuss the new production Pass Over. The play focuses on t...

W. Kamau Bell Talks 'Private School Negro'

Publication Date: 2018-07-02

Emmy Award-winning socio-political comedian W. Kamau Bell discusses his debut Netflix special, “W. Kamau Bell: Private School Negro,” available for s...

New York: A Tale of 2 Cities

Publication Date: 2018-07-01

Kevin Baker, a Harper’s Magazine contributing editor, discusses his July cover story, “Death of a Great American City: New York and the Urban Crisis ...

The South’s Changing Political Landscape

Publication Date: 2018-07-01

Imani Perry discusses her recent piece in Harper’s Magazine, “Letter from Alabama: As Goes the South, so Goes the Nation.” Perry, a professor of Afri...

Why the #Metoo Movement Hasn't Hit the Culinary World

Publication Date: 2018-06-29

Chefs Allison Plumer and Anita Lo join Meghan McCarron special correspondent for Eater, to discuss her recent article, “The Chefs We Don’t See.” Megh...

Please Explain: Knives

Publication Date: 2018-06-29

This week’s Please Explain is all about knives! Josh Donald discusses his new book, Sharp: The Definitive Guide to Knives, Knife Care, and Cutting Te...

'Coconuts & Collard Greens' from Puerto Rico to the South

Publication Date: 2018-06-29

Von Diaz discusses her new book, Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South. When her family moved from Puerto Ric...

The Many Shades of Barbeque

Publication Date: 2018-06-29

Sam Sifton, food editor of The New York Times and an "Eat" columnist for The Times Magazine, discusses the many different shades of barbeque – how ...

'Log Cabin' Examines Inequality within the LGBTQ Community

Publication Date: 2018-06-28

Playwright Jordan Harrison and actors Ian Harvie and Dolly Wells discuss their new play Log Cabin at Playwrights Horizons. The play focuses on a tigh...

'Carousel' Has Another Go Round on Broadway

Publication Date: 2018-06-28

Tony Award winning actors Jessie Mueller and Lindsay Mendez and three-time Tony Award winning director Jack O’Brien discusses their revival productio...

The Strange Case of Triplets Separated at Birth

Publication Date: 2018-06-28

Director Tim Wardle discusses his new documentary, Three Identical Strangers, which tells the story of triplets who were separated at birth and then ...

Pregnancy Discrimination in the Workplace

Publication Date: 2018-06-28

Natalie Kitroeff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg discuss their recent investigation for The New York Times, “Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside ...

U.S. Born Children Losing Immigrant Parents to Deportation

Publication Date: 2018-06-27

VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu discusses the most recent episode of VICE on HBO, “Separated By Birth.” There are more than four million U.S.-bor...

MoMA's Homage to a Kung Fu Master

Publication Date: 2018-06-27

Associate curator for the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film, La Frances Hui, discusses the new show she organized, “The Grandmaster: Lau Kar-...

The Freelancing Work Revolution

Publication Date: 2018-06-27

Sarah Kessler discusses her book Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work. Kessler looks at how one in three American workers is now a freel...

Bruce Lee: 45 Years After his Death

Publication Date: 2018-06-26

Matthew Polly discusses his new book, Bruce Lee: A Life. Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at the age of thirty-two, Polly’s book is on...

'Leave No Trace' Explores Love & Trauma

Publication Date: 2018-06-25

Debra Granik discusses directing Leave No Trace, a film about a father and his thirteen year-old daughter who lead an idyllic existence in an urban p...

Chronicling the Fractures in a Changing America

Publication Date: 2018-06-25

Eliza Griswold discusses her new book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, which looks at how one family is facing a chang...

D.L. Hughley Tells Us 'How Not to Get Shot'

Publication Date: 2018-06-25

D.L. Hughley discusses his new book How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People. Hughley, an activist and comedian offers this tongue-in-...

The Simpsons: Inside America's Most Iconic Cartoon Family

Publication Date: 2018-06-25

Mike Reiss discusses Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons. A four-time Emmy winner, R...

Boz Scaggs' New Album is a Fresh Take on the Classics

Publication Date: 2018-06-25

Boz Scaggs discusses his new album, Out of the Blues, which offers a fresh take on recordings by Bobby Blue Bland, Magic Sam, Jimmy Reed, and even Ne...

'Deadly Force' with Lawrence O'Donnell

Publication Date: 2018-06-25

Lawrence O’Donnell discusses his book Deadly Force: A Police Shooting and My Family’s Search for the Truth as well as the current news cycle. O’Donne...

Game Change: How the Ad Business Got Disrupted

Publication Date: 2018-06-25

Ken Auletta discusses his book Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else), which looks at how the advertising industry i...

Joseph O'Neill's Take on 21st Century New York

Publication Date: 2018-06-25

Joseph O’Neill discusses his new book of stories, Good Trouble. From facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, O’Neill offers a close look at...

Life's a Peach in Diana Henry's New Cookbook

Publication Date: 2018-06-22

Diana Henry discusses her book, How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places. Henry offers menus that are introduced with personal essays about plac...

A 10-Year Journey into the Origins of Wine

Publication Date: 2018-06-22

Journalist Kevin Begos discusses Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine. Begos embarked on a ten-year journey...

The Wines that are Making a Global Imprint

Publication Date: 2018-06-22

Executive wine editor at Food & Wine Magazine, Ray Isle, discusses his article, “40 Wines That Changed the Way We Drink.” He offers his unique pe...

Please Explain: Milk

Publication Date: 2018-06-22

For our latest Please Explain Mark Kurlansky discusses his book Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas. He traces the liquid's diverse history from antiqui...

Seymour Hersh on His Life's Work

Publication Date: 2018-06-21

Journalist Seymour Hersh discusses his new book, Reporter: A Memoir, in which he tells the stories behind the stories: chasing leads, cultivating sou...

Mending Fences: Repairing the US-Mexico Relationship

Publication Date: 2018-06-21

Andrew Selee discusses his book Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together. Selee looks at contemporary Mexico, sh...

'7 Billion:' an Album of Romance & Tradition

Publication Date: 2018-06-21

Kiran Ahluwalia performs songs from her new album 7 Billion. Born in India and raised in Toronto, Ahluwalia performs classic folkloric material in th...

Inside the Life of Leonard Bernstein

Publication Date: 2018-06-21

Jamie Bernstein discusses her book, Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein. The composer of On the Town and West Side Story and chief c...

Serge Bromberg Breaks the Silence on Silent Films

Publication Date: 2018-06-20

Film preservationist and entertainer Serge Bromberg discusses his traveling show Saved from the Flame, a program of rare shorts to be shown on June 2...

Children Held Beyond 'Medical Necessity' in Illinois Psych Wards

Publication Date: 2018-06-20

ProPublica Illinois reporter Duaa Eldeib discusses her recent article published in The Atlantic, “Hundreds of Illinois Children Languish in Psychiatr...

The Ghostbuster’s Daughter Reminisces

Publication Date: 2018-06-20

Violet Ramis Stiel discusses her memoir Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis. Stiel takes us on an intimate journey into the life a...

You are What You Eat: How the Industrial Food System is Affecting You

Publication Date: 2018-06-20

Kristin Lawless discusses her book, Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture, which looks at...

The Soundtrack of Music Manager, Seymour Stein

Publication Date: 2018-06-19

Seymour Stein discusses his memoir Siren Song: My Life in Music. Seymour Stein’s prolific career as a ground-breaking music producer is on full displ...

The DACA Dreamers' Struggles, Fears, & Triumphs

Publication Date: 2018-06-19

Reporter Timothy Pratt tells the stories of Dreamers in the midst of a Trump presidency and the struggles, fears, and obstacles these students have t...

Abdi Nor Iftin's Journey from Somalia to Maine

Publication Date: 2018-06-19

Abdi Nor Iftin discusses his memoir Call Me American: A Memoir. Originally from Somalia, Iftin was a fan of U.S. culture and became known around Moga...

Dan Pfeiffer Examines How President Obama Beat the Odds

Publication Date: 2018-06-19

Dan Pfeiffer discusses his new book, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump. Pfeiffer was one of Obama's first hires wh...

How a Pediatrician Discovered Lead in Flint's Water

Publication Date: 2018-06-18

Mona Hanna-Attisha discusses her new book, What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City. Dr. Hanna-Attisha do...

Porochista Khakpour's Journey Through Lyme Disease, Identity, and Art

Publication Date: 2018-06-18

Porochista Khakpour discusses Sick: A Memoir. For as long as Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. Se...

Why Does Mental Illness Shorten Patients' Lifespans?

Publication Date: 2018-06-18

Dr. Dhruv Khullar, physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a researcher at the Weill Cornell Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, ta...

Searching for Balance and Normalcy with Autism

Publication Date: 2018-06-18

Maxine Rosaler discusses her book, Queen for a Day. The novel focuses on Mimi, a mother whose child is diagnosed with autism. The book charts her and...

How Californians Fired the Judge of the Brock Turner Rape Case

Publication Date: 2018-06-15

Julia Ioffe, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses her recent piece for HuffPost Highline, “When The Punishment Feels Like the Crime.” She...

Can the VA Deny Coverage for Military Training Injuries?

Publication Date: 2018-06-15

Ben Kesling discusses his recent article for The Wall Street Journal “How Veterans Are Injured Affects Care,” which looks at how the Department of Ve...

From NYC to Botswana, One Doctors' Journey Treating Patients with HIV/AIDS

Publication Date: 2018-06-15

Dr. Daniel Baxter discusses his book One Life at a Time: An American Doctor’s Memoir of AIDS in Botswana. After working in an AIDS clinic in New York...

Please Explain: Altered States of Consciousness

Publication Date: 2018-06-15

For this week's Please Explain, Edward Rosenfeld, author of The Book of Highs: 255 Ways to Alter Your Consciousness Without Drugs, answers all your q...

Shakespeare in the Park's 'Othello'

Publication Date: 2018-06-14

Chukwudi Iwuji and Corey Stoll discuss starring in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Othello. Iwuji plays the title role and Stoll plays Iago...

If You Have Problems, Wyatt Cenac Has Solutions

Publication Date: 2018-06-14

Wyatt Cenac discusses his new late-night docu-series on HBO "Problem Areas," which takes on challenging social and political problems across the U....

The Immigration Policy Separating Families

Publication Date: 2018-06-14

New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer discusses his recent article, “How the Trump Administration Got Comfortable Separating Immigrant Kids from t...

Eve Ensler Fights Female Oppression with 'Fruit'

Publication Date: 2018-06-14

Tony Award-winning playwright, activist, performer and author Eve Ensler and actor Liz Mikel discuss their new production, Fruit Trilogy, premiered b...

Everything Needed to Get Your House Ready for Summer

Publication Date: 2018-06-13

Alvin and Lawrence Ubell discuss how to keep your house in top condition for summer! This segment is guest hosted by Hari Kondabolu.

Is Puerto Rico the Next Stop for Disaster Capitalists?

Publication Date: 2018-06-13

Naomi Klein, author of The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists, and Elizabeth Yeampierre, a Puerto Rican environmental...

How the FIFA Scandal Became an International Corruption Case

Publication Date: 2018-06-12

Ken Bensinger discusses his book, Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal, which breaks down how the FIFA scand...

Hip Hop & the Rise of a Multibillion-Dollar Industry

Publication Date: 2018-06-12

Zack O'Malley Greenburg discusses his new book, 3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise. This history of contemporary ...

'Boundaries' Takes Three Generations on a Canadian-American Road Trip

Publication Date: 2018-06-12

Writer/director Shana Feste and actors Vera Farmiga and Peter Fonda discuss their new film Boundaries. This family road-trip film focuses on Laura (F...

What's in a Name? 'Always Anjali' Finds Out

Publication Date: 2018-06-12

Actress and author Sheetal Sheth discusses her new children’s book, Always Anjali, which encourages pride in being different and embracing the things...

Novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza on Finding 'A Place for Us'

Publication Date: 2018-06-12

Fatima Farheen Mirza discusses her debut novel A Place for Us, which tells the story of a family reuniting for a Muslim-Indian wedding and the reckon...

A Transcontinental Immigrant Narrative

Publication Date: 2018-06-11

Sofija Stefanovic discusses her memoir, Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir, which charts her journey as a child coming of age in a country torn apart by wa...

'I'm Still Here' Moves the Race Conversation Forward

Publication Date: 2018-06-11

Austin Channing Brown discusses her book, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Brown offers a powerful perspective on race wi...

The Life & Loss of Robin Williams

Publication Date: 2018-06-11

Dave Itzkoff discusses his new biography, Robin, which takes a close look at the life, celebrity, and struggles of the late Robin Williams. This inti...

Why Dr. Ruth is Optimistic About Online Dating

Publication Date: 2018-06-11

Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer discusses her new book, From You to Two: Dr. Ruth's Rules For Real Relationships, written with Pierre A. Lehu. Dr. Ruth offers...

Documentary Explores Mr. Rogers, the Quiet Radical

Publication Date: 2018-06-08

Morgan Neville discusses his new documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, which explores the life and legacy of the iconic Mr. Rogers. Won't You Be My ...

How Climate Change is Killing Your Avocados

Publication Date: 2018-06-08

Nathanael Johnson discusses his recent piece, “Are avocados toast?: What will we eat in 2050? California farmers are placing bets.” It takes a close ...

'Shock and Awe' & the Lies That Started the Iraq War

Publication Date: 2018-06-08

Rob Reiner discusses his new film, Shock and Awe, which looks at the journalists who questioned the Bush White House’s justification for the Iraq War...

Please Explain the Science of Shorelines

Publication Date: 2018-06-08

Dr. Dave Hudson, staff research scientist at the Maritime Aquarium, and Dr. Jeremy B. C. Jackson, a biologist/ecologist at Scripps Institution of Oce...

The Miracle Year of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise

Publication Date: 2018-06-07

Elaina Plott discusses her story for The Atlantic, “The Man Who Would Be Speaker." Plott looks at the meteoric rise of House Majority Whip Steve Sca...

Family Drama in Fairview

Publication Date: 2018-06-07

Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury and Soho Rep. artistic director Sarah Benson discuss the play Fairview, which Drury wrote and Benson directs. In Fai...

How Big Pharma Pushed Fentanyl

Publication Date: 2018-06-07

Julia Lurie discusses her recent piece in Mother Jones “‘Behave More Sexually:’ How Big Pharma Used Strippers, Guns, and Cash to Push Opioids.” Lurie...

Todd Fisher on Life With Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds

Publication Date: 2018-06-07

In December 2016 actor, Todd Fisher lost his sister Carrie Fisher and mother Debbie Reynolds within 24 hours of each other. In a poignant new memoir,...

The Supreme Court Case that Changed Gay Marriage in America

Publication Date: 2018-06-06

Filmmaker Donna Zaccaro and attorney Robbie Kaplan discuss the documentary To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v Windsor. The film chronicles the experienc...

The Battle Raging Over the Amazon River

Publication Date: 2018-06-06

Chris Feliciano Arnold discusses his book The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon. He takes a close look a...

60 Years of Alvin Ailey Dance

Publication Date: 2018-06-06

Robert Battle, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Artistic Director, and company dancers Courtney Celeste Spears and Clifton Brown discuss their Li...

'American Eden': America's First Botanical Garden

Publication Date: 2018-06-06

Historian Victoria Johnson discusses her book American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic. Johnson tells th...

How Will Technology Affect the Future of the Justice System?

Publication Date: 2018-06-05

Jon Fasman, The Economist’s Washington correspondent, and Faiza Patel, co-director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty & National Security Program, d...

New Narratives of the Urban Native American Experience

Publication Date: 2018-06-05

Tommy Orange discusses his first novel There There, a multi-generational story about violence, recovery, memory, and identity. Focusing on twelve cha...

An Unlikely World War II Romance

Publication Date: 2018-06-05

Alexis Clark discusses her new book, Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance. Based on a true story, the book tells the...

Can MTA Buses Have a Comeback?

Publication Date: 2018-06-05

Laura Bliss, staff writer at The Atlantic's CityLab, and John Surico, who covers New York City transit and infrastructure, discuss our outdated bus s...

Hemingway's Love Affair with Venice

Publication Date: 2018-06-04

Andrea di Robilant discusses his new book Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse. He tells the true story of Hemingway's love affair wi...

How the Marine Corps Shaped Robert Mueller

Publication Date: 2018-06-04

WIRED’s contributing editor Garrett Graff discusses his recent article, “The Untold Story of Robert Mueller’s Time in Combat,” which looks at how Mue...

Carl Zimmer Questions Heredity as We Know It

Publication Date: 2018-06-04

New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer discusses his new book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of ...

Allison Pearson's New Novel Ponders, 'How Hard Can It Be?'

Publication Date: 2018-06-04

Allison Pearsondiscusses her latest novel How Hard Can It Be? Pearson brings us the new adventures of Kate Reddy, the beleaguered heroine of her New ...

Mark Rylance and Claire Van Kampen on 'Farinelli and the King'

Publication Date: 2018-06-01

Mark Rylance and Claire Van Kampen discuss the Shakespeare’s Globe production of "Farinelli and the King, a new play by written and scored by Van Ka...

'The Band's Visit' Musicians Perform Live!

Publication Date: 2018-06-01

Musicians from the Tony-nominated Broadway musical “The Band’s Visit” perform live in studio and speak with guest host and creator, three-time Tony A...

Director Michael Grandage Brings Disney's 'Frozen' to Broadway

Publication Date: 2018-06-01

Disney's "Frozen" broke records at the box office for highest-grossing animated film. Five years later, it became a Broadway musical. Tony and Oliv...

Harry Hadden-Paton & Lauren Ambrose Star in 'My Fair Lady'

Publication Date: 2018-06-01

Harry Hadden-Paton and Lauren Ambrose talk about starring in the Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady" at Lincoln Center Theater. It tells the story o...

A Feminist's Take on the Shifting Culture of Pregnancy

Publication Date: 2018-06-01

Angela Garbes discusses her book Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy. The book debunks myths and dated ass...

Tech Pioneer Jaron Lanier on the Diminishing Returns of Social Media

Publication Date: 2018-06-01

Jaron Lanier, an interdisciplinary scientist at Microsoft, talks about his latest book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right No...

Will This Tick Give Me Lyme Disease?

Publication Date: 2018-06-01

For Please Explain, Dr. Brian Fallon, coauthor of Conquering Lyme Disease: Science Bridges the Great Divide, explains diagnosis, treatment, and curre...

Phylicia Rashad Directs 'Our Lady of 121st Street'

Publication Date: 2018-06-01

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, actress Quincy Tyler Bernstine and director Phylicia Rashad, discuss their new production, Our Lady of 121st Street....

Summertime, When the Livin' is...Easy?

Publication Date: 2018-05-31

Summer is officially here, and we want to hear about how you survive -- and thrive! What's your favorite part of New York City summer? Where do you l...

40 Years on Capturing Broadway on Film

Publication Date: 2018-05-31

Sara Krulwich discusses her decades of work photographing New York City theater for The New York Times. She received the 2018 Tony Honors for "extra...

Can Democracy Survive Cyber Hackers?

Publication Date: 2018-05-31

Clint Watts, a former FBI special agent, discusses his new book, Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Ru...

'200 Women Who Will Change How You See the World'

Publication Date: 2018-05-31

200 Women: Who Will Change The Way You See The World is a book and traveling exhibition comprised of original interviews and photographic portraits c...

The Story of America's 'Unknown Soldier'

Publication Date: 2018-05-30

Patrick O’Donnell discusses his new book, The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him...

The Meteoric Rise & Fall of Silicon Valley's Theranos

Publication Date: 2018-05-30

Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist John Carreyrou discusses his book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, which looks at the rise ...

Could Impeachment Lead to a Democratic Civil War?

Publication Date: 2018-05-30

Jeffrey Toobin discusses his new article for The New Yorker, “Will the Fervor to Impeach Donald Trump Start a Democratic Civil War?” Toobin examines ...

Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal: The Origins of Roosevelt Island

Publication Date: 2018-05-30

Stacy Horn discusses her new book Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York, which looks at the history of Roosevelt I...

'Unsheltered' Takes A Deep Dive into NYC's Housing Crisis

Publication Date: 2018-05-29

Kim Barker, a New York Times reporter, and N.R. "Sonny" Kleinfield, freelance writer and former staff writer at The New York Times' Metro desk, dis...

Elizabeth Warren on How to Save the Middle Class

Publication Date: 2018-05-29

Elizabeth Warren, U.S. State Senator from Massachusetts, discusses her book, This Fight Is Our Fight, which looks at the current battle over America’...

The Costs of Higher Ed Part III: The Labor Problem

Publication Date: 2018-05-29

For final installment of our series, The Costs of Higher Ed, Columbia Ph.D. candidate Tania Bhattacharyya and Sean M. Kennedy, a Ph.D. candidate in E...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Revisits His Year in a Kenyan Prison

Publication Date: 2018-05-28

Writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o discusses his book Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir, written in the 1980's and not published in the U.S...

How to Fix U.S. Maternal Health Care: Call the Midwife

Publication Date: 2018-05-28

ProPublica reporter Nina Martin has been investigating maternal care and preventable deaths in the U.S. for over a year. In her story, “A Larger Role...

'No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria'

Publication Date: 2018-05-28

The war in Syria is one of the most appalling tragedies of our time, but it's barely understood. Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid has spent ye...

Nick Nolte's Life on Screen and in Print

Publication Date: 2018-05-28

Actor Nick Nolte talks about his memoir Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines. Nolte delves into stories about art, passion and struggle over the course o...

25 Years of the MTA's 'Poetry in Motion'

Publication Date: 2018-05-25

Alice Quinn, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, discusses ...

Dispossession & Rebellion: A New History of Appalachia

Publication Date: 2018-05-25

Steven Stoll, a professor of history at Fordham University, talks about his new book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. He examines the region’s...

Is Pre-K the Most Influential Year in a Child's Life?

Publication Date: 2018-05-25

Suzanne Bouffard discusses her book The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children. Bouffard examines American pre-schools ...

The Power of Intuition in Times of Crisis

Publication Date: 2018-05-25

Novelist Pia de Jong talks about her new book Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition. She tells the story of her daughter, Charlotte, ...

Condola Rashad Brings Joan of Arc to Broadway

Publication Date: 2018-05-24

Four-time Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad discusses her role as one of history’s greatest heroines in a major new production of Bernard Shaw‘s epic...

Glenda Jackson on Returning to Broadway After 30 Years

Publication Date: 2018-05-24

Two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson discusses her return to Broadway for the starring role in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Th...

Condola Rashad Brings Joan of Arc to Broadway

Publication Date: 2018-05-24

Four-time Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad discusses her role as one of history’s greatest heroines in a major new production of Bernard Shaw‘s epic...

Glenda Jackson on Returning to Broadway After 30 Years

Publication Date: 2018-05-24

Two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson discusses her return to Broadway for the starring role in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Th...

Family, Food & Fun...Favorite Recipes from Melissa Clark's Kitchen

Publication Date: 2018-05-23

New York Times food columnist and cookbook author Melissa Clark discusses her newest cookbook, Favorite Recipes from Melissa Clark's Kitchen: Family ...

'Queen Sugar' Returns for Season 3

Publication Date: 2018-05-23

Dawn-Lyen Gardner discusses her leading role in the Oprah Winfrey Network show, Queen Sugar. The show tells the story of one family in Louisiana and ...

'Dance Nation': A Comical Coming of Age

Publication Date: 2018-05-23

Playwright Clare Barron and actor Ellen Maddow discuss their new production Dance Nation. The play takes a look at the world of dance competitions an...

The Costs of Higher Ed Part II: Is Working for Free Worth it?

Publication Date: 2018-05-22

For the second installment of our series, "The Costs of Higher Ed," Rebecca Kolins Givan, an associate professor at the School of Management and La...

Michael Chabon on Fashion and Fatherhood

Publication Date: 2018-05-22

Author Michael Chabon discusses his new collection of essays, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces. The book emerged from a piece he wrote for GQ about attendi...

Philip Ashforth Coppola on Drawing Subway Lines for 40 Years

Publication Date: 2018-05-22

Philip Ashforth Coppola discusses his new book of pen-and-ink drawings, One Track Mind. Coppola has spent the last forty years documenting the artist...

Ethan Hawke Stars as a Lost Pastor in 'First Reformed'

Publication Date: 2018-05-21

Director Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke discuss their new film, First Reformed, which premiered on May 18. Starring Hawke and Amanda Seyfried, the fil...

Gun Ownership in the Era of Mass Shootings

Publication Date: 2018-05-21

Less than halfway through 2018, Americans have already endured over one hundred mass shootings. So why is the NRA still so strong? Kerry Shaw, contri...

'ACORN & the Firestorm' Chronicles the Demise of a National NGO

Publication Date: 2018-05-21

Reuben Atlas discusses his new documentary, ACORN and the Firestorm. The film looks at the story of ACORN, a national community organizing group that...

Please Explain: Why Pollen Makes Me Sneeze

Publication Date: 2018-05-18

‘Tis the season for sniffles. Millions of Americans suffer from allergies, seasonal and otherwise. For this week’s "Please Explain," Dr. Clifford B...

What Broke Our Healthcare System & How We Can Fix It?

Publication Date: 2018-05-18

Elisabeth Rosenthal, Harvard-trained medical doctor, former healthcare reporter for The New York Times, and current editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health ...

Milton Glaser Examines His Iconic Work

Publication Date: 2018-05-17

Milton Glaser discusses his new book Milton Glaser Posters: 427 Examples from 1965 to 2017. His posters, which combine conceptual rigor and originali...

'The Iceman Cometh' Back to Broadway

Publication Date: 2018-05-17

David Morse, Colm Meaney and Bill Irwin discuss starring in the new Broadway revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, which also stars two-time...

Isabella Rossellini Brings Her One-Woman Show to America

Publication Date: 2018-05-17

Award-winning actor and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini discusses the American premiere of her new one-woman show, Link Link Circus, now playing at the...

Maira Kalman Takes on Cake

Publication Date: 2018-05-16

Artist and author Maira Kalman and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman discuss their book Cake, an illustrated book dedicated to their mutual love of c...

A History of the World's 'Most Extravagant Hotel'

Publication Date: 2018-05-16

Luke Barr discusses Ritz & Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class. Beginning in early August 1889, César Ritz, a Sw...

Mark Bittman on 'How to Grill Everything'

Publication Date: 2018-05-16

Bestselling cookbook author Mark Bittman discusses his new book How to Grill Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Flame-Cooked Food. He explains how ...

Maira Kalman Takes on Cake

Publication Date: 2018-05-16

Artist and author Maira Kalman and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman discuss their book Cake, an illustrated book dedicated to their mutual love of c...

Richard Russo: Writer and Reader

Publication Date: 2018-05-15

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo discusses his new book The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life, which is the author’s firs...

Got Anxiety? Michael Pollan Says Medicinal LSD Could Help

Publication Date: 2018-05-15

Michael Pollan discusses his new book How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction,...

The Costs of Higher Ed Part I: Is it Just Me, or Is Tuition Skyrocketing?

Publication Date: 2018-05-15

In the first installment of our series, “The Costs of Higher Ed,” Meredith Kolodner, higher education reporter at The Hechinger Report and Jeffrey J....

How Meaningful Gatherings Can Make You a Better Human

Publication Date: 2018-05-15

Priya Parker discusses her new book The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters in which she argues that a human-centered approach to gather...

Canine Cognition: What's My Dog Really Thinking?

Publication Date: 2018-05-14

Alexandra Horowitz, who teaches canine cognition and creative nonfiction at Barnard College and runs the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab, discusses the mi...

Deb Perelman's Guide To Springtime Baking!

Publication Date: 2018-05-14

Deb Perelman, creator of the award-winning Smitten Kitchen food blog and cookbook author, discusses springtime baking! This segment is guest hosted b...

Franchesca Ramsey Escalates the Conversation on Race, Identity & Activism

Publication Date: 2018-05-14

When video blogger and star of MTV's Decoded Franchesca Ramsey posted a YouTube video “What White Girls Say to Black Girls,” it went viral. Her new b...

The Joys & Challenges of Being a Female Comedian

Publication Date: 2018-05-14

Comedians Veronica Mosey, Agunda Okeyo and Pat Brown discuss the recent White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the challenges and joys of being a fem...

Harry Hadden-Paton & Lauren Ambrose Bring 'My Fair Lady' to Life

Publication Date: 2018-05-11

Harry Hadden-Paton and Lauren Ambrose talk about starring in the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center Theater. It tells the story of El...

Please Explain: Medical Myths

Publication Date: 2018-05-11

Can detoxes be toxic? Is gluten that bad? For this week's "Please Explain," we dispel myths that are upheld by popular public wisdom and perpetuate...

Will Appalachia's Natural Gas Boom Follow Coal's Troubled Path?

Publication Date: 2018-05-11

As West Virginia's coal industry falters, many are putting their hopes on natural gas. Investigative reporter Ken Ward Jr. of the The Charleston Gaze...

Bryan Stevenson on Understanding Our Legacy of Racial Injustice

Publication Date: 2018-05-11

Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, discusses EJI's new project The Legacy Mu...

Listeners Call in About Spring (And Springtime Cleaning)!

Publication Date: 2018-05-10

Spring is finally here! It's a time for new beginnings. We’re taking calls from our listeners about spring cleaning. How do you decide what to hold o...

Joshua Jackson & Lauren Ridloff on 'Children of a Lesser God'

Publication Date: 2018-05-10

Actors Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff discuss starring in the first-ever Broadway revival of Children of a Lesser God. Jackson stars as James Leed...

Tom Hollander on the Kaleidoscopic Thrill of 'Travesties'

Publication Date: 2018-05-10

Tom Hollander discusses starring in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties, in association with Chocolate Factory P...

'Hear Together:' How NYC Families Cope With ICE Detention

Publication Date: 2018-05-10

Despite New York City's status as a sanctuary city, local ICE arrests increased significantly in the last year. Thousands of immigrants are now in de...

The 'Opportunity Zones' for Luxury Developers in Poor Neighborhoods

Publication Date: 2018-05-09

Journalist Noah Buhayar discusses his recent piece in Bloomberg Businessweek, “A New Tax Break for Poor Neighborhoods Could Benefit Luxury Developers...

The Story of Former Trump Family Adviser Roy Cohn

Publication Date: 2018-05-09

Frank Rich discuss his cover story in New York magazine’s latest issue “The Original Donald Trump.” He examines Roy Cohn -- an infamously corrupt pow...

Misdemeanors in the Classroom: Betsy DeVos & the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Publication Date: 2018-05-09

Journalist Annie Waldman of ProPublica discusses her recent piece for Mother Jones, “Betsy DeVos Is Making It Easier for Schools to Send Black Kids—L...

'That Kind of Mother,' a Tale of Parenthood & Privilege

Publication Date: 2018-05-09

Rumaan Alam discusses his novel That Kind of Mother. It tells the story of a first-time mother named Rebecca Stone who struggles with the demands of ...

Mark and Jay Duplass Talk Filmmaking, Brotherhood, and Success

Publication Date: 2018-05-07

Filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass discuss their new book Like Brothers. They detail their lifelong partnership as writers, directors, producers, and ac...

If You Get Hacked, Do You Have The Right To Hack Back?

Publication Date: 2018-05-07

New Yorker staff writer Nicholas Schmidle discusses his latest piece in the May 7th issue: “If Your Files Are Stolen by Hackers, Why Is It Illegal to...

H. Jon Benjamin on Why We Need to Fail

Publication Date: 2018-05-07

Actor H. Jon Benjamin, the lead voice on “Archer” and “Bob’s Burgers,” discusses his new book Failure is an Option: An Attempted Memoir. He shares th...

The Life, Career and Scandal of Benjamin Netanyahu

Publication Date: 2018-05-07

Journalist Anshel Pfeffer discusses his new book Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu. Pfeffer argues that we cannot understand I...

Bill Charlap on the Art of Improvisation

Publication Date: 2018-05-07

Jazz pianist and Grammy Award-winner Bill Charlap talks about the art of improvisation, and shows us how it's done with a live studio performance! Bi...

How Robert Smigel Harnesses the Talents of Adam Sandler and Chris Rock

Publication Date: 2018-05-07

Director Robert Smigel talks about The Week Of, his new feature film for Netflix starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. It tells the story of two fath...

Norbert Leo Butz And David Yazbek Go Way Back

Publication Date: 2018-05-07

Norbert Leo Butz talks about starring as Alfred P. Doolittle in “My Fair Lady,” along with his career highlights and collaboration with David Yazbek ...

The Musicians From 'The Band's Visit' Perform Live!

Publication Date: 2018-05-07

Musicians from the Tony-nominated Broadway musical “The Band’s Visit” perform live in studio and speak with guest host and creator, three-time Tony A...

The Incredible Story of How NASA Reached Pluto

Publication Date: 2018-05-04

Dr. Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, and astrobiologist David Grinspoon, join us to discuss their new book Chasing New...

Directing the Marvel Universe of "Avengers: Infinity War"

Publication Date: 2018-05-04

Brothers Anthony Russo and Joe Russo to discuss directing the blockbuster hit “Avengers: Infinity War.”

From Humble Beginnings to High Fashion: The Story of the Sneaker

Publication Date: 2018-05-04

For this week’s Please Explain, Nicholas Smith will join us to discuss his new book, Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers. He’ll explain their...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Unexpected Pop Culture Icon

Publication Date: 2018-05-04

Filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen join us to discuss their new documentary, “RBG,” The film explores the life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Ju...

Ijeoma Oluo and Rebecca Carroll on Race and Representation in Journalism

Publication Date: 2018-05-03

Ijeoma Oluo and Rebecca Carroll discuss the ethics of representation in Sally Kohn’s book, The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Human...

New Portraits of the Black Diaspora From the Schomburg Archives

Publication Date: 2018-05-03

Artist Firelei Báez discusses her exhibit “Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire,” along with Hallie Ringle, Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Har...

Ariel Dorfman's Novel of Human Zoos and Haunted Polaroids

Publication Date: 2018-05-03

Award-winning Latin American writer Ariel Dorfman discusses his new novel Darwin's Ghosts. It tells the story of a man whose distant past comes to ha...

Should the First Amendment Protect Hate Speech?

Publication Date: 2018-05-03

Should “hate speech” remain “protected speech” under the United States Constitution? Former president of the ACLU Nadine Strossen wrestles with this ...

Marcia Gay Harden's Texan Japanese Childhood

Publication Date: 2018-05-02

Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden discusses her memoir Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family and Flowers. She tells the story ...

Generational Loss and Incarceration in Black America

Publication Date: 2018-05-02

Former Washington D.C. public defender and Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Forman Jr. discusses his book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment...

Amanda Knox and VICE Examine Media's Mistreatment of Women

Publication Date: 2018-05-02

Amanda Knox spent four years in an Italian prison because of a wrongful conviction over the murder of her roommate and her story became an internatio...

Should America Give Refuge to Abused Women?

Publication Date: 2018-05-02

The Trump administration is trying to end the U.S.’s practice of providing asylum to immigrant women fleeing domestic abuse and violence in their hom...

How To Get A Job Part III: The Booming Gig Economy

Publication Date: 2018-05-01

For the final installment of our How To Get A Job series, we look at the non-traditional work landscape of full-time freelance and "permalance" gig...

Richard Cohen and Meredith Vieira on Living with Multiple Sclerosis

Publication Date: 2018-05-01

When he was 25 years old, New York Times bestselling author Richard Cohen was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. His book Chasing Hope: A Patient's D...

Megan Mullally and Stephanie Hunt on their Punk Vaudeville Duo

Publication Date: 2018-05-01

Megan Mullally, who stars as Karen in Will & Grace, is also a lifelong musician and dancer. She and bandmate Stephanie Hunt discuss their punk va...

Can New York Work with the U.N., Even When the White House Won't?

Publication Date: 2018-05-01

Dr. Colleen Thouez discusses how cities, New York in particular, are trying to formally join a U.N. global compact on migration, despite the White Ho...

The Uphill Battle of #MeToo on Wall Street

Publication Date: 2018-04-30

Making money on Wall Street is hard, but filing a successful sexual harassment case might be even harder. Journalist Susan Antilla discusses her late...

The Countdown to Sesame Street's Cardboard Puppets

Publication Date: 2018-04-30

Animator Danielle Ash discusses her Sesame Street stop-motion cardboard creation, Counting 4 Wheels. The animation follows two sisters who go on an a...

Does Capitalism Help American Jobs, Or Ruin Them?

Publication Date: 2018-04-30

Robert Kuttner talks about his book Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? In it he argues that neither immigration nor technological change is res...

Violence Is Down in East New York. How Long Will This Last?

Publication Date: 2018-04-30

East New York just ended its longest stretch without a murder since the NYPD started keeping records in 1993. Ashley Southall examines this shift in ...

Lynne Tillman's Tale of Manhood, Photography, and Feminism

Publication Date: 2018-04-27

Lynne Tillman, professor and writer-in-residence at the University at Albany SUNY, discusses her novel Men and Apparitions. It tells the story of 38-...

Unwinding the History of the Human Species

Publication Date: 2018-04-27

Harvard Medical School geneticist and professor David Reich discusses his book, Who We Are and How We Got Here, which details how the human genome te...

Your Carbon Footprint, Explained

Publication Date: 2018-04-27

Is tofu imported from China more environmentally friendly than beef from my local farmers’ market? If my family already consumes a lot, is having a t...

Sweetbitter's Heroine Leaves the Page for the Screen

Publication Date: 2018-04-27

In 2016 Stephanie Danler published Sweetbitter, a novel based on her years as a waitress in New York City. The novel follows a young woman new to the...

Artist, Activist, Man: The Many Identities of Alexander Chee

Publication Date: 2018-04-26

Award-winning novelist Alexander Chee discusses his memoir How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays. Chee’s first collection of nonfiction is a...

A Blueprint for Building Power, Written in the Deep South

Publication Date: 2018-04-26

Stacey Abrams is one of the most powerful black female politicians in the country. Former house minority leader for the Georgia General Assembly and ...

Ronan Farrow On The Collapse Of American Diplomacy

Publication Date: 2018-04-26

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Ronan Farrow discusses his book War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influe...

The SAT and ACT Don't Measure Intelligence. Why Are We Still Using Them?

Publication Date: 2018-04-26

What does the SAT actually test anyway? Michael Arlen Davis probes this question in his new documentary, The Test and the Art of Thinking. Davis look...

'Henry V' Is Coming to Your Borough For Free

Publication Date: 2018-04-25

This spring, The Public Theater's Mobile Unit is bringing Henry V to every borough of New York City for free. Shakespeare's classic tells the story o...

'Henry V' is Coming to Your Borough For Free

Publication Date: 2018-04-25

This spring, The Public Theater's Mobile Unit is bringing Henry V to every borough of New York City for free. Shakespeare's classic tells the story o...

How to Turn a Christian College into Big Business

Publication Date: 2018-04-25

Propublica reporter Alec MacGillis discusses his investigation, "Billion-Dollar Blessings." The piece looks at how Liberty University, a vanguard o...

What 1,800 Records of Misconduct Tell Us About the NYPD

Publication Date: 2018-04-25

Earlier this month, Buzzfeed News released a database of 1,800 NYPD employees who were accused of misconduct from 2011 to 2015, but whose records wer...

From Rwanda to Human Rights Advocate, A Genocide Survivor Tells Her Story

Publication Date: 2018-04-25

Clemantine Wamariya discusses her memoir, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old siste...

How To Get A Job Part II: Your Dream Job, Your Attitude and Implicit Bias

Publication Date: 2018-04-24

For the second installment of our series, "How to Get a Job," we examine the best strategies for getting a job you really love. Maggie Mistal, a ca...

At Tribeca, the Dumpling that Turned Into a Child

Publication Date: 2018-04-24

Director Domee Shi and producer Becky Neiman-Cobb talk about PIXAR’S newest short film, Bao. The animated film tells the story of an aging Chinese mo...

Texas: A Country Unto Its Own

Publication Date: 2018-04-24

New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright discusses his new book God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone ...

A Snake Charmer's Memoir on Defying Fear and Death

Publication Date: 2018-04-24

Tessa Fontaine discusses her memoir The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts. She tells the story of being on the road with her adventurous...

Meet the Guatemalan Teens Forced to Work on American Farms

Publication Date: 2018-04-23

In Ohio, a group of Guatemalan teens is being forced to work against their will on an egg farm. Producer Andres Cediel's new FRONTLINE documentary, T...

A Murder in Manhattan at Second Stage Theater

Publication Date: 2018-04-23

What happens when a Manhattan apartment building lobby becomes embroiled in a murder investigation? Kenneth Lonergan, the 2017 Oscar-winning writer o...

An Operatic Take on Black Lives Matter

Publication Date: 2018-04-23

Internationally acclaimed bel canto tenor Lawrence Brownlee discusses his Black Lives Matter-inspired song cycle called Cycles of My Being. Brownlee ...

Thirty Years of Cultural Criticism from Lorrie Moore

Publication Date: 2018-04-23

Lorrie Moore talks about her new book See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary. It’s a collection of more than fifty prose pieces, gat...

Surfer Bethany Hamilton on Reclaiming Her Life after a Shark Attack

Publication Date: 2018-04-20

Bethany Hamilton, the famous surfer who lost an arm in a shark attack, discusses the new documentary about her life, Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, a...

Julian Barnes on Writing 'The Only Story'

Publication Date: 2018-04-20

Man Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes talks about his novel The Only Story. It tells the story of a college-aged man and a middle-aged wife a...

The Whitewashing of American City Politics

Publication Date: 2018-04-20

In the 15 biggest cities in America, all but three mayors are white men, and none are women. Russell Berman, staff writer for The Atlantic, and Dr. C...

Please Explain Mussels

Publication Date: 2018-04-20

Seventy percent of North American freshwater mussel species are imperiled. Why should we care? For this week’s Please Explain, writer, veterinarian a...

Meet Ellis Haizlip, America's First Black Television Host

Publication Date: 2018-04-19

Before there was Oprah, there was Ellis Haizlip. From 1968 to 1973, Haizlip hosted the public-television variety show SOUL!, which celebrated black a...

What 83 Million Eviction Records Tell Us About Housing in America

Publication Date: 2018-04-19

New York Times reporter Emily Badger and local tenant organizers Randy Dillard and Susanna Blankley discuss the crisis of home evictions in the Unite...

Debut Novel Celebrates Feminism and Art in 1950's Iran

Publication Date: 2018-04-19

Jasmin Darznik discusses her debut novel Song of a Captive Bird. She tells the story of Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad, who grew up in ...

1968: The Year that Changed America

Publication Date: 2018-04-19

Fifty years ago, America changed forever. 1968 saw the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King J. and Robert Kennedy, the ...

Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins Are Back, With a Modern Twist

Publication Date: 2018-04-18

Before there was My Fair Lady, there was Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play about Henry Higgins, a phonetics professor who falls in love with...

Why Michigan's Gubernatorial Candidate Is Running With No Political Platform

Publication Date: 2018-04-18

Zaid Jilani discusses his story for The Intercept titled, “A Bernie-Branded Millionaire is Leading the Democratic Race for Governor. He almost Ran as...

Naloxone Saves Lives. Why Is it So Hard to Get?

Publication Date: 2018-04-18

New York City encourages residents to carry Naloxone, the drug that reverses heroin drug overdoses. New York Times reporter Annie Correal found that ...

The Secret Lives of Dogs: Unsafe Shelters and Unethical Breeders

Publication Date: 2018-04-18

Kim Kavin, the author of The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers discusses her latest story in The Washingto...

Does Alcohol Cause Breast Cancer?

Publication Date: 2018-04-17

Stephanie Mencimer, staff reporter for Mother Jones, talks about her investigation for the May/June issue, “Did Drinking Give Me Breast Cancer?" As...

How To Get A Job Part I: Everything You Need To Know About America's Job Market

Publication Date: 2018-04-17

For the first installment of our new series, “How to Get a Job,” Liz Ryan, a former Fortune 500 human resources senior vice president and CEO of Huma...

Disaster Tourism Agencies: Here for You, Until They Aren't

Publication Date: 2018-04-17

Kent Russell discusses his story for HuffPost’s Highline titled, “The Disaster Tourist.” Russell investigated a China-based travel group called Young...

Novel 'Circe' Weaves Together Greek Mythology, Feminism, and Witchcraft

Publication Date: 2018-04-17

Madeline Miller discusses her novel Circe. It tells the story of Circe, daughter of the Greek sun god, Helios. She struggles to find her place among ...

Steve Israel's Satirical Novel on the Gun Lobby

Publication Date: 2018-04-16

Former Long Island Congressman Steve Israel discusses his new novel Big Guns. The novel presents a not-so-distant future in which the fight for gun r...

How (Not) to Count Everyone in the 2020 Census

Publication Date: 2018-04-16

In two years, the U.S. Census Bureau will undertake the herculean task of counting every person living in the United States. To iron out wrinkles pri...

Has #NeverAgain Started a Revolution?

Publication Date: 2018-04-16

George Zornick, the Washington editor for The Nation magazine, has been reporting on the gun lobby and gun control for years. In his story for the Ap...

Andrea Buchanan on the Winter That Changed Her Life

Publication Date: 2018-04-16

One cold morning in March, best-selling author Andrea Buchanan woke up to a coughing fit that changed her life. What started as a harmless cough lead...

Please Explain Why the Internet Knows So Much About Me

Publication Date: 2018-04-13

This week’s Please Explain is all about the origins of the internet! Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the ...

One Symphony, Five Puppeteers, and a Thousand Gallons of Water

Publication Date: 2018-04-13

MacArthur Award-winning creator and director Basil Twist, puppeteer Lake Simmons and pianist Christopher O’Riley discuss the 20th-anniversary product...

In a Mental Health Emergency, Will Calling 9-1-1 Save a Life or End it?

Publication Date: 2018-04-13

On April 4, the NYPD responded to a 9-1-1 call from Crown Heights about a man threatening pedestrians with something that looked like a gun. The man ...

Will ICE Deport a Long Island Teen to His Death?

Publication Date: 2018-04-13

Propublica immigration reporter Hannah Dreier discusses "A Betrayal," her extraordinary investigation in partnership with New York Magazine. Dreier...

Lynn Nottage, Elephants and the True Cost of Desire

Publication Date: 2018-04-12

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage discusses her play Mlima’s Tale, along with Obie Award-winning director Jo Bonney and actor Sahr Ngauj...

Our Parole System is Broken. How Do We Fix It?

Publication Date: 2018-04-12

Every year, tens of thousands of prisoners become eligible for parole. But many officials reviewing parole applications are overworked, under-trained...

Samantha Irby Gets 'Meaty' on Love, Race, and Health

Publication Date: 2018-04-12

Author Samantha Irby discusses Meaty, her reissued and updated collection of essays. Irby uses humor and wit to write about failed relationships, bei...

Internal Affairs: Why Trump Loves the Saudi Prince

Publication Date: 2018-04-12

Dexter Filkins discusses his latest piece in The New Yorker titled, “The Saudi Prince Charming Trump” (online – “A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the...

Want to Protect Your Data From Facebook? These Drag Queens Have Some Advice.

Publication Date: 2018-04-11

The pressure for Facebook to account for what it does with user data has been growing for years. In 2014, one group started to raise awareness about ...

New Exhibit at MAD Features Pioneering 'Femmage' Artist

Publication Date: 2018-04-11

Dr. Elissa Auther, Windgate Research and Collections Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design, discusses the exhibition Surface/Depth by pioneering f...

'Tis the Season...for Home Repair

Publication Date: 2018-04-11

Now that warmer weather is here (sort of), our gurus of how-to Alvin and Lawrence Ubell are ready for a season of home repair. Listeners, call in or ...

Is There a Facebook Without Mark Zuckerberg?

Publication Date: 2018-04-11

Felix Salmon, Ideas contributor for WIRED and host of the Slate Money podcast, discusses his recent piece for WIRED: “The Case for a Zucker-Free Face...

A Somali-Norwegian Family Divided by Faith and Politics

Publication Date: 2018-04-10

Award-winning Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad discusses her book Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey into the Syrian Jihad. S...

FRONTLINE Goes Behind the Scenes of the Republican Party

Publication Date: 2018-04-10

Filmmaker Michael Kirk discusses his two new FRONTLINE documentaries, Trump’s Takeover and McCain. Both documentaries explore the Republican Party th...

Barbara Ehrenreich on Our Obsession with Aging

Publication Date: 2018-04-10

Americans are afraid of aging and death, but how much control do we have over these processes? Barbara Ehrenreich discusses this in her latest book N...

How a Jersey Crime Reporter Became a High-End Robber

Publication Date: 2018-04-10

In 1971, reporter Ron Porambo wrote a seminal book about police brutality in Newark's 1967 race riots. But instead of rising to the ranks of Norman M...

Why the Deck is Stacked Against Young Black Men, Even When They're Rich

Publication Date: 2018-04-09

Emily Badger, a writer for The New York Times “Upshot,” discusses her story "Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys." She is...

Great Britain's Unfinished Business With Slavery

Publication Date: 2018-04-09

Dr. Kris Manjapra, an associate professor of history at Tufts University, discusses his new piece in The Guardian's “The Long Read” titled, “When wil...

How Animals Evolve to Man-Made Ecosystems

Publication Date: 2018-04-09

Man-made environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. Menno Schilthuizen explores this in his new bo...

Christine Lahti's Memoir on Feminism, Art and Hollywood

Publication Date: 2018-04-09

Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award–winning actor and director Christine Lahti discusses her memoir True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A F...

A Musical Cross-Country Road Trip for Our Era

Publication Date: 2018-04-06

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes discusses her new musical, Miss You Like Hell, along with actors Daphne Rubin-Vega and Gizel J...

Change-Makers: 40 Years of Community Organizing in Williamsburg

Publication Date: 2018-04-06

As part of our Change-Makers Series, Felice Kirby joins us to discuss her forty years of activism in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint neighborhoods. She i...

Please Explain: Why Does Grapefruit Aroma Suppress My Appetite?

Publication Date: 2018-04-06

For this week’s "Please Explain," we unlock the neurological secrets behind eating. Rachel Herz, a neuroscientist specializing in perception and em...

Civic Engagement 101

Publication Date: 2018-04-06

Making change isn't easy, but Eric Liu says its an American tradition that's essential for our future. Liu is the founder and CEO of Citizen Universi...

Elizabeth Strout on Her New Novel 'Anything is Possible'

Publication Date: 2018-04-05

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout talks about her new novel Anything is Possible. It tells the story of family members in the Midwest wh...

Change-Makers: Librarians Bring Books and Answers to Rikers

Publication Date: 2018-04-05

As part of our Change-Makers Series, Sarah Ball, Louise Stamp and Emily Jacobson discuss their work at the New York Public Library’s branch on Rikers...

The Interwoven Lives, and Deaths, of Two Civil Rights Icons

Publication Date: 2018-04-05

They were assassinated only sixty-two days apart. Their work inspired the country and their deaths shattered it. In The Promise and the Dream: The Un...

Naomi Klein on the Fight for Puerto Rico's Future

Publication Date: 2018-04-05

Naomi Klein discusses her story for The Intercept, “The Battle for Paradise.” Klein spent weeks touring Puerto Rico to document how years of financia...

A Neuroscientist's Journey to Madness and Back

Publication Date: 2018-04-04

In 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness—was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within month...

Hannah Gadsby Brings Her Final Comedy Show to SoHo Playhouse

Publication Date: 2018-04-04

Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby discusses her career, her decision to leave show business, and her award-winning show Nanette, now playing at The S...

Change-Makers: Rovika Rajkishun Puts Immigrants on the Front Lines of Change

Publication Date: 2018-04-04

As part of our Change-Makers Series, Rovika Rajkishun joins us to discuss her work as the Development Director at the NY Immigration Coalition and th...

Alaska's Permafrost Stores Vast Amounts of Carbon. Now It's Thawing.

Publication Date: 2018-04-04

Science and climate reporter J. Madeleine Nash discusses her story for High Country News, “An unfrozen North.” Nash looks at the science of climate c...

Has Gerrymandering Already Rigged the 2018 Elections?

Publication Date: 2018-04-04

Michael Li, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses their full report on gerrymandering titled, “Extreme Gerrymandering & the...

Change-Makers: Reconnecting Bed-Stuy Men to Good Jobs

Publication Date: 2018-04-03

As part of our Change-Makers Series, Father Jim O’Shea talks about his organization Reconnect Brooklyn, along with Efrain Hernandez, co-founder of Re...

Leslie Jamison's Memoir of Addiction and Recovery

Publication Date: 2018-04-03

Leslie Jamison discusses her memoir, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath. She tells stories of addiction - both her own and others' - and ...

How a Connecticut Suburb Became the Epicenter of American Comics

Publication Date: 2018-04-03

Cullen Murphy talks about his book Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe. Cullen Murphy’s father, John Cullen M...

The U.S. Opioid Crisis, the Mexican Drug Trade, and the Road Ahead

Publication Date: 2018-04-03

Howard Buffett discusses his new book Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America, which looks at the r...

How Trump Tried To Rescue Texas and Abandoned Puerto Rico

Publication Date: 2018-04-02

Danny Vinik, assistant editor of “The Agenda” at Politico, discusses his recent investigation, “How Trump favored Texas over Puerto Rico.” Through a ...

Change-Makers: Clown Doctors Use Laughter for Good

Publication Date: 2018-04-02

We’re featuring the nominees from our Change-Makers series all week! Change-Makers celebrates the New Yorkers who are making a difference in their lo...

A Portrait of Flushing's Chinatown

Publication Date: 2018-04-02

Lauren Hilgers talks about her new book, Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown. Hilgers weaves the personal stories of Zhuang Liehong and ...

Carmen de Lavallade Joins the Dance Theater of Harlem for its 50th Anniversary

Publication Date: 2018-04-02

Dance legend Carmen de Lavallade and Anna Glass, executive director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, discuss the company's upcoming season and its his...

Lidia Bastianach's Memoir of Immigration, Family, and Italian Food

Publication Date: 2018-04-02

Restaurateur, television star and cookbook author Lidia Bastianich discusses her memoir My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food. She tell...

The Kondabolu Brothers on Culture, Comedy, and the Creative Life

Publication Date: 2018-03-30

DJ and internet personality Ashok Kondabolu, who co-hosts The Kondabolu Brothers podcast on Earwolf, joins his brother (our guest host!) for a fun an...

Please Explain: HIV/AIDS Activism in the United States

Publication Date: 2018-03-30

In October, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that made knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV into a misdemeanor, rather th...

Andie MacDowell on Starring in 'Love After Love'

Publication Date: 2018-03-30

Andie MacDowell discusses her starring role in the new film Love After Love, directed by Russ Harbaugh. MacDowell plays Suzanne, a recently widowed m...

The CIA's New Assassination Squads

Publication Date: 2018-03-30

In March, Aram Roston of Buzzfeed broke a story that the CIA is using small teams of commandos to conduct targeted attacks on terrorists. Roston's ar...

'Trump, Inc.' Uncovers the Trumps' Shady Dealings in India

Publication Date: 2018-03-29

The Trump Organization has five active projects in India, a country where the real estate industry is notoriously corrupt. WNYC senior editor Andrea ...

'The China Hustle' and the Coming Financial Crisis

Publication Date: 2018-03-29

Director Jed Rothstein discusses his new documentary, The China Hustle, along with Dan David, a Philadelphia-based investor who is featured in the fi...

One Woman's Quest To Solve Her Uncle's Murder

Publication Date: 2018-03-29

In 2014, playwright, producer, and professor Dorothy Marcic embarked on a two-year mission to uncover the truth about her uncle LaVerne Stordock's vi...

Masha Gessen on How Putin is Erasing Russia's Gulag History

Publication Date: 2018-03-29

Russian-American journalist and author Masha Gessen discusses her latest book Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia. Gessen...

M.I.A. on the Film Exploring Her Life, Art, and Politics

Publication Date: 2018-03-28

Musician and artist Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (M.I.A.) and filmmaker Stephen Loveridge discuss their new film MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. Before she bec...

Sean Penn Breaks into Fiction

Publication Date: 2018-03-28

Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn discusses his debut novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: A Novel. Penn tells the story of Bob Honey, an American...

How a A Wrongful Conviction Put One Man on Death Row for 30 Years

Publication Date: 2018-03-28

In 1985, at the age of 29, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. He was innocent, but with no mon...

How Elastic Thinking Can Make You Smarter

Publication Date: 2018-03-28

Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow talks about his new book Elastic, which explains the idea of “elastic thinking.” Mlodinow argues that this kin...

How One Woman Left Her Survivalist Roots for Academia

Publication Date: 2018-03-27

Tara Westover has a doctorate in history from Cambridge University, but she didn't step into a classroom until she was seventeen. Born and raised by ...

A Week-by-Week Account of Democracy Under Trump

Publication Date: 2018-03-27

Two weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Amy Siskind started "The Weekly List," a blog detailing actions taken by the Trump administration t...

Lamont 'U-God' Hawkins on His Life in the Wu-Tang Clan

Publication Date: 2018-03-27

Wu-Tang Clan’s founding member Lamont "U-God" Hawkins discusses his memoir Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang. Raised by a single mother in Brownsvil...

Is Progressive Bail Reform All Talk and No Action?

Publication Date: 2018-03-26

Senior Reporter Beth Fertig, who covers courts and legal affairs for WNYC, discusses her series “The Slow Boat to Bail Reform.” She examines what’s w...

Globalizing the Fight for a Living Wage

Publication Date: 2018-03-26

Annelise Orleck, professor of history at Dartmouth, discusses her new book "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty...

The U.S. Citizens ICE Wants to Deport

Publication Date: 2018-03-26

ICE is deporting and detaining more immigrants under the Trump administration, but for years it has mistakenly deported actual U.S. Citizens. Gregory...

Aparna Nancherla on Her New Netflix Comedy

Publication Date: 2018-03-26

Comedian, actor and Twitter-sensation Aparna Nancherla discusses her new special on Netflix’s The Standups. Nanchera’s cutting and illuminating humor...

The American Dream and the Hazards of Owning a Home

Publication Date: 2018-03-26

Wall Street Journal reporter Ryan Dezember bought his first house in Alabama in 2005. Then came the housing crisis, and a decade of chaos followed fo...

John Edgar Wideman's Story of America, and Himself

Publication Date: 2018-03-23

John Edgar Wideman, MacArthur Fellow, two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and finalist for both the NBCC and National Book Awards, talks about...

How to Open Your Eyes to the Natural World

Publication Date: 2018-03-23

For this week's "Please Explain," we dive into the art and science of reading nature. Expert natural navigator Tristan Gooley, author of How to Rea...

New Orleans Grapples with the Ethics of Mass Surveillance

Publication Date: 2018-03-23

The city of New Orleans has recently set up surveillance cameras that officials say will help keep the city safe. But whose safety is being considere...

'Admissions' and the Contradictions of Liberal White America

Publication Date: 2018-03-23

Playwright Joshua Harmon is joined by Jessica Hecht and Ben Edelman, who are starring in a new production of his play Admissions at Lincoln Center. T...

Chris Gethard on the Comedic Line Between Chaos and Control

Publication Date: 2018-03-22

Comedian Chris Gethard talks about the new season of his critically-acclaimed TV show, The Chris Gethard Show. The show tows the line between chaos a...

Stanley Tucci Brings Giacometti to Life in 'Final Portrait'

Publication Date: 2018-03-22

Stanley Tucci discusses his new film Final Portrait, which he wrote and directed. It tells the story of the American writer and art-lover James Lord ...

Can Science Help Us Overcome Racism?

Publication Date: 2018-03-22

The National Geographic just released "The Race Issue," which examines how, despite its unscientific roots, the notion of race plays out in peoples...

Elizabeth Kolbert on the Myth of Racial Difference

Publication Date: 2018-03-22

Science tells us there is no genetic basis for race. That's right: none. In her story for The National Geographic's "Race Issue," Pulitzer Prize-wi...

120 Artists, 15 Countries: Brooklyn Museum's Radical Latina Art Show

Publication Date: 2018-03-21

Carmen Hermo, Assistant Curator at the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art, talks about their upcoming show, "Radical Women: Latin Ame...

How Border Patrol Pushed Migrants to the Deadly Arizona Desert

Publication Date: 2018-03-21

Radiolab reporters Latif Nasser and Tracie Hunte join Dr. Robin Reineke, Executive Director of the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, to explain how mi...

How to Raise a Boy In Our Violent World

Publication Date: 2018-03-21

Stella Bugbee, president and editor-in-chief of New York Magazine's The Cut discusses the publication's three-part series, "How to Raise a Boy." Th...

Book Maps out New Path for Criminal Justice Reform

Publication Date: 2018-03-21

Julian Adler, director of Research-Practice Strategies of the Center for Court Innovation, discusses his new book Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing ...

Breaking Through the Boy's Club of Television Writing

Publication Date: 2018-03-20

Television writer Nell Scovell discusses her book Just the Funny Parts: And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys' Club. Scovell,...

Why Modern Systems Fail Us

Publication Date: 2018-03-20

Living in a world of complex technology doesn't make us safer; in fact, it could make us more vulnerable to failure. Chris Clearfield and András Tilc...

Michael Grandage on Directing 'Frozen' on Broadway

Publication Date: 2018-03-20

Disney's Frozen broke records at the box office for highest-grossing animated film. Five years later, it's now onstage as a Broadway musical. Tony an...

How Project Veritas Catfished Silicon Valley

Publication Date: 2018-03-20

Kashmir Hill, senior reporter at Gizmodo Media Group, discusses her recent investigation: “How Conservative Activists Catfished Twitter.” She reveals...

Filmmaker John Seale, from 'Mad Max: Fury Road' to 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'

Publication Date: 2018-03-19

Academy Award-winning Australian cinematographer John Seale, whose work includes Mad Max: Fury Road, The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley,...

The Human Drama of Soccer

Publication Date: 2018-03-19

Soccer is not only the world's most popular sport--it's also one of the most widely shared forms of global culture. Laurent Dubois, Professor of Roma...

Sixteen Years of Guilty Pleasure: Amy Kaufman on 'The Bachelor'

Publication Date: 2018-03-19

The Bachelor franchise: You love to hate it, and you hate to love it. Amy Kaufman writes about it - and many other Hollywood mainstays - for the The ...

Justice for the Americans Sick from Fukushima Radiation

Publication Date: 2018-03-19

The Nation contributor Gregg Levine discusses his special investigation: “7 Years on, Sailors Exposed to Fukushima Radiation Seek Their Day in Court....

Bruce Norris's Vision of America’s First Laissez-faire Capitalist

Publication Date: 2018-03-16

Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris joins us to discuss The Low Road, along with director Michael Greif and actor Chukwudi Iwuji,...

The Interconnected Nature of Mammals

Publication Date: 2018-03-16

For our latest Please Explain, Liam Drew, a freelance writer and former neurobiologist, discusses his new book I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us ...

Gillian Armstrong on Australian Film

Publication Date: 2018-03-16

Gillian Armstrong is the Australian director behind My Brilliant Career, Mrs. Soffel, and Little Women. She talks about her career as a director and ...

Paying for Prescriptions When Your Life Depends on It

Publication Date: 2018-03-16

We know that prescription drug prices are soaring, but what does that mean for the lives of Americans with chronic and life-threatening illnesses? Ka...

11 Million Americans Go to Jail Each Year. Where are They?

Publication Date: 2018-03-15

The debate surrounding mass incarceration focuses mostly on prisons, but what about the millions of Americans cycling through local jails? Jasmine He...

Edward Albee's Classic Comes to Life Onstage

Publication Date: 2018-03-15

Actress Katie Finneran and director Lila Neugebauer discuss their production of Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo: Homelife & The Zoo Story. In a...

Corporate Monopolies and the Future of Hollywood

Publication Date: 2018-03-15

Ben Fritz talks about his book The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies. He chronicles the metamorphosis of 21st-century Hollywood and loo...

Arthur Miller Through the Eyes of His Daughter, Rebecca

Publication Date: 2018-03-15

Filmmaker Rebecca Miller talks about her new documentary Arthur Miller: Writer, debuting on HBO on March 19. Rather than a standard biopic, Rebecca e...

A Blueprint For Colonizing Outer Space

Publication Date: 2018-03-14

Dr. Michio Kaku is planning for life on mars. In his new book The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Des...

Jane Mayer Reexamines the Man Behind the Steele Dossier

Publication Date: 2018-03-14

New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer discusses her article in the March 12 issue, “The Man Behind the Dossier” (Online: “Christopher Steele, the Man Be...

The Beatles' Hairdresser Tells All

Publication Date: 2018-03-14

The Beatles’ hair style set off a cultural revolution. It was the symbol of the Sixties’ psychedelic dreams of peace, love and playful rebellion, and...

The Women Revolutionizing American TV

Publication Date: 2018-03-14

Joy Press talks about her book Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television. Female writers, directors, and producers have radically t...

Terry Carter on Forging a Path for Black Actors in Hollywood

Publication Date: 2018-03-13

For decades, actor and filmmaker Terry Carter was often the only black actor on Hollywood sets. He talks about his career in film and television, inc...

Roy Wood Jr. on Finding Comedy in Trying Times

Publication Date: 2018-03-13

Roy Wood Jr. discusses his life, career and what it's like to work as a comedian in the current social and political climate. Wood is currently deve...

The Unsung Heroes of Black American Cinema

Publication Date: 2018-03-13

Shola Lynch, Elena Rossi-Snook and Sandra Schulberg talk about the black films we don’t know about, why they are important, and how to preserve them....

What is It Like to Organize for Change in New York City?

Publication Date: 2018-03-13

New York change-makers Rashad Robinson, Maya Wiley, and Victoria Pannell discuss the art of social activism. Rashad Robinson is the Executive Director...

How Midwives Could Help Fix Maternal Healthcare

Publication Date: 2018-03-12

ProPublica reporter Nina Martin has been investigating maternal care and preventable deaths in the U.S. for over a year. Her recent story is “A Large...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on his Year in a Kenyan Maximum Security Prison

Publication Date: 2018-03-12

Writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o discusses his book Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir, written in the 1980's and not published in the U.S...

Stories from the Syrians Who Stayed

Publication Date: 2018-03-12

The war in Syria is one of the most appalling tragedies of our time, but it's barely understood. Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid has spent ye...

Nick Nolte's Memoir on Art and Rebellion

Publication Date: 2018-03-12

Actor Nick Nolte talks about his memoir Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines. Nolte delves into stories about art, passion and struggle over the course o...

Why Trump's Campaign Adviser Went to Wikileaks

Publication Date: 2018-03-09

Natasha Bertrand, staff writer for The Atlantic, discusses her recent article, "Roger Stone's Secret Messages with WikiLeaks.” She reports that long...

Please Explain: The Ingenuity Behind Everyday Items

Publication Date: 2018-03-09

If you’ve ever wondered how stuff is made, you’re in luck! In this week's "Please Explain," Andrew Terranova, an engineer and the author of How Thi...

How a NASA Mission Discovered Thousands of New Planets

Publication Date: 2018-03-09

Joshua N. Winn, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, discusses his recent article in Scientific American titled, “Shadows of ...

Film Follows the Extraordinary Life of Itzhak Perlman

Publication Date: 2018-03-09

Violinist, conductor and music teacher Itzhak Perlman discusses "Itzhak,” the new documentary about his life, along with the film’s director Alison ...

Scott Pruitt's Destruction of the EPA, from the Inside Out

Publication Date: 2018-03-08

Rebecca Leber, environment and energy reporter for Mother Jones, has been following Scott Pruitt since the day he became head of the EPA under Trump....

How Corporations Silence Environmental Protesters with Lawsuits

Publication Date: 2018-03-08

Ian MacDougall, Senior Reporting Fellow at ProPublica, talks about his story for Harper’s Magazine, “Empty Suits: Defamation law and the price of dis...

A Memoir from the Avant-garde of 1970's Tokyo

Publication Date: 2018-03-08

Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books editor and author, came of age in Tokyo's avant-garde underground arts scene during the 1970's. His new memoir A...

'Speak No Evil' Explores the Unraveling of Two Teenagers

Publication Date: 2018-03-08

Uzodinma (Uzo) Iweala discusses his critically-acclaimed novel Speak No Evil. The story focuses on the relationship between two privileged teenagers ...

What One Couple Learned From Living With Wolves

Publication Date: 2018-03-07

Jim Dutcher and Jamie Dutcher lived with a pack of wolves in Idaho for six years. As they studied their social behaviors, they began to observe a com...

In 'Heart Berries,' an Indigenous Woman's Coming-of-Age

Publication Date: 2018-03-07

Terese Marie Mailhot discusses her memoir Heart Berries. Told through a collection of personal essays, she details her coming of age on the Seabird I...

The Students from #NeverAgain Enter Uncharted Territory

Publication Date: 2018-03-06

Journalist Emily Witt talks about her ongoing coverage of the Parkland shooting and its aftermath for the New Yorker, including her most recent story...

Firsthand Accounts of American Slavery and Resistance

Publication Date: 2018-03-06

Noel Rae discusses his latest book The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery. He integrates firsthand accounts into a narrative history that bring...

Is This the Last Chance to Save Our Democracy?

Publication Date: 2018-03-06

Yascha Mounk, Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America, talks about his new bo...

Neil Gaiman Explores the World of Norse Mythology

Publication Date: 2018-03-06

Author and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman discusses his latest book Norse Mythology. Gaiman, whose own work has been inspired by the characters and sto...

Tom McGuane's Literary Universe, from the Bahamas to Big Sky Country

Publication Date: 2018-03-06

For nearly fifty years, Tom McGuane has written stories that probe family dysfunction and American loneliness, while celebrating our ability to persi...

Chris Hayes on America's Police State

Publication Date: 2018-03-06

Emmy Award-winning MSNBC host Chris Hayes discusses his book A Colony in a Nation. Hayes argues that the U.S. is drifting towards a police state that...

Why the West Virginia Teacher Strike Matters

Publication Date: 2018-03-05

West Virginia teachers went on strike last week for the first time in nearly thirty years. Jake Zuckerman and Sarah Jones talk about their recent rep...

The Truth About Rape Investigations in America

Publication Date: 2018-03-04

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist T. Christian Miller discusses his book A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America, which he co-wrote with Ken ...

The Mysterious Death of a Swiss Activist in Borneo

Publication Date: 2018-03-04

In 1984, Swiss-born Bruno Manser joined an expedition to the Mulu caves on Borneo where he lived among the Dayak people, the fabled “Headhunters of B...

From Travolta to Trump: Martin Amis on His New Essay Collection

Publication Date: 2018-03-04

Famed British novelist and critic Martin Amis discusses his latest book The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Repor...

'Flint Town': What It's Like to Police in One of the Most Violent Cities in America

Publication Date: 2018-03-01

Filmmakers Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari and Jessica Dimmock spent two years embedded with the police department in Flint, Michigan. Set in the after...

Is it Just Me, or Does Everyone Have Burnout?

Publication Date: 2018-03-01

In this week's 'Please Explain,' we talk about burnout. Whether it’s the onslaught of negative news, or just accumulating stress at work, burnout is ...

Jeffrey Toobin on Trump, Russia, and the Miss Universe Connection

Publication Date: 2018-03-01

Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker staff writer and chief legal analyst for CNN, discusses his latest piece in the February 26th issue of The New Yorker, “Th...

Spaghetti Western Meets Afropunk in New Play at Soho Rep

Publication Date: 2018-03-01

Playwright Aleshea Harris discusses her new play, Is God Is, along with actors Alfie Fuller and Dame-Jasmine Hughes. The play follows twin sisters on...

Victor Garber Returns to Broadway for "Hello, Dolly!"

Publication Date: 2018-02-28

Victor Garber discusses starring in the classic musical Hello, Dolly on Broadway alongside Bernadette Peters. He plays Horace Vandergelder, the crotc...

Why Trump Is Betting Big on Facebook Ads for 2020

Publication Date: 2018-02-28

Issie Lapowsky, Senior Writer for WIRED, discusses President Trump's recent appointment of Brad Parscale to run his 2020 reelection campaign. Parscal...

How 7,000 Somali Immigrants Transformed Small Town Maine

Publication Date: 2018-02-28

In the 1990's, Lewiston, Maine was a small, overwhelmingly white town in the whitest state in America. Then it started welcoming African immigrants -...

Want to Understand Today's Russian Spies? Go Back to 1948

Publication Date: 2018-02-28

In 1946, the Russians launched a covert operation to steal America's atomic secrets, called "Operation Enormoz.” In 2016 they launched a covert oper...

The Life and Death of a Japanese Internment Camp

Publication Date: 2018-02-28

Photographer Stan Honda talks about the book, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps, which was written by Sharon Yamato and fea...

Steven Pinker's Book in Defense of the Enlightenment

Publication Date: 2018-02-27

Steven Pinker discusses his new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Pinker argues that life, health, prospe...

Sarah Jessica Parker Talks 'Divorce' and Her Career

Publication Date: 2018-02-26

Sarah Jessica Parker discusses Season 2 of her HBO series Divorce. Parker stars as Frances DuFresne, a married woman with two children living in West...

Mark Bittman on How to Cook Vegetarian

Publication Date: 2018-02-26

Chef, cookbook author and New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman discusses his latest cookbook, the revised 10th Anniversary edition of How to Co...

A Memoir of Misadventures in Russia

Publication Date: 2018-02-26

Journalist and novelist Michael Idov talks about his new memoir Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow. He recounts the tempestuous y...

Florence Gould, The Woman Who Bought Happiness

Publication Date: 2018-02-23

Susan Ronald talks about her biography A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator -- The Life of Florence Gould. She...

How Environmental Laws Can Protect People, Not Polluters

Publication Date: 2018-02-23

Environmentalist and Delaware Riverkeeper Maya K. Van Rossum discusses her new book The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to A Healthy Environment....

Please Explain This Flu Season

Publication Date: 2018-02-22

Dr. Mirella Salvatore, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research and go-to flu expert at Weill Cornell Medical College, joins "Please Ex...

How to Build Your Perfect Schedule

Publication Date: 2018-02-22

Daniel Pink discusses his new book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. Pink draws on psychology, biology and economics to reveal how best...

DuPont's Toxic Legacy in New Jersey

Publication Date: 2018-02-21

James O’Neill and Scott Fallon, reporters for The Record/NorthJersey.com join us to discuss their recent investigation into DuPont’s toxic legacy in ...

New Book Challenges the Myths of Civil Rights History

Publication Date: 2018-02-21

Dr. Jeanne Theoharis discusses her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Theoharis has written a ...

An Iranian-American's Grand Tour of Exile

Publication Date: 2018-02-21

Author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses her new novel Call Me Zebra. It follows the journey of 22 year-old Zebra, who fled Iran with her family...

'The Play That Goes Wrong' Comes to Broadway

Publication Date: 2018-02-21

Ashley Bryant, Mark Evans and Clifton Duncan talk about starring in the Broadway revival of The Play That Goes Wrong. This Olivier Award-winning come...

Actress Laura Benanti On Her Diverse Career

Publication Date: 2018-02-21

Tony Award-winning actor Laura Benanti discusses her diverse career and her recent turn from Broadway where she recently co-starred with Amy Schumer ...

Raoul Peck's Film on Young Karl Marx

Publication Date: 2018-02-20

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck talks about his latest film, The Young Karl Marx, a dramatized biopic about Karl Marx’s early adulthood....

Amy Chua on the Question of American Identity

Publication Date: 2018-02-20

Amy Chua discusses her new book Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations. Chua argues that America tends to view people as being defi...

Two Years of Tumult at Facebook

Publication Date: 2018-02-20

Nick Thompson, Editor in Chief of WIRED, discusses his cover story for the March issue, “Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook--and the World,” wh...

A Book on Optimism in the Age of Fear

Publication Date: 2018-02-20

Gregg Easterbrook discusses his latest book It’s Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear. He details why, despite problems like ...

Lindy West on Leaving Twitter, and Loving It

Publication Date: 2018-02-20

Lindy West, author and contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, talks about her latest column, “I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great.” She di...

The Deadly Rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran

Publication Date: 2018-02-20

Frontline correspondent Martin Smith discusses his new documentary, Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia, a two-part series that examines how a rival...

How Journalists Can Fight Gender Imbalance in Their Stories

Publication Date: 2018-02-20

Journalists Ed Yong and Adrienne LaFrance discuss Yong’s new piece in The Atlantic titled, “I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in M...

Steve Coll on the United States' Secret Wars in South Asia

Publication Date: 2018-02-18

Steve Coll, New Yorker staff writer and Dean of Columbia Journalism School, discusses his new book Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret War...

A Nazi Doctor's Quest for Redemption

Publication Date: 2018-02-18

Award-winning filmmaker and author John Heminway talks about his new book In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement. He tells the story of Dr. ...

Reporting the Dark Side of the Olympics

Publication Date: 2018-02-18

David Zirin, sports editor for The Nation and host of the podcast “Edge of Sports,” discusses his recent reporting on the Olympics including his arti...

The Farce of Black History Month

Publication Date: 2018-02-18

Doreen St. Felix, staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses her new piece, “The Farce, and the Grandeur, of Black History Month Under Trump.” St. Fe...

The 'Leftover' Women Shaping China

Publication Date: 2018-02-16

American journalist & The Economist’s Cuba correspondent, Roseann Lake, talks about her new book, Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World'...

Please Explain Awkwardness

Publication Date: 2018-02-15

Melissa Dahl, editor of New York Magazine’s “Science of Us” column, and the author of Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness, joins "Please Explain"...

Gillian Jacobs and the Cast of 'Kings'

Publication Date: 2018-02-15

Actors Zach Grenier, Eisa Davis and Gillian Jacobs talk about the Public Theater’s new production, Kings, written by Sarah Burgess and directed by Th...

China's Jiu Ling Hou and the Future of the World

Publication Date: 2018-02-15

Zak Dychtwald discusses his new book Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World. He examines the future of Chin...

How Infighting Splintered the NFL Protest Movement

Publication Date: 2018-02-14

Howard Bryant, a senior writer for ESPN, joins us to discuss his latest story, “A Protest Divided.” He examines the legacy of the movement started by...

Exhibit Features East Village Photographer Peter Hujar

Publication Date: 2018-02-14

Joel Smith, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at The Morgan Library & Museum, discusses the new exhibit Peter Hujar: Speed of Life a...

Book Explores the Legacy of the Marshall Plan

Publication Date: 2018-02-14

Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Benn Steil discusses his new book The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War. He explains the legacy of Ameri...

The Enduring Legacy of Stop and Frisk

Publication Date: 2018-02-14

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, president of Policing Equity and the Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at John Jay, and Dr. Carla Shedd, Associ...

Why Are State Legislatures Attacking Their Own Courts?

Publication Date: 2018-02-13

Alicia Bannon, Deputy Director for Program Management at the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses the concerted attack by state legislatures on the ...

A Magician Finds Wonder in Everyday Life

Publication Date: 2018-02-13

Nate Staniforth, a magician, writer, and former host of the Discovery Channel’s show Breaking Magic, talks about his new book Here Is Real Magic: A M...

Ask Us Your Winter Home Repair Questions

Publication Date: 2018-02-13

Al and Larry Ubell, our Gurus of How-To, return just in time for winter home repairs and projects! This segment is guest hosted by Kai Wright.

Children's Book 'Wonder' Becomes a Film

Publication Date: 2018-02-13

RJ Palacio, graphic designer by day and a writer by night, discusses the film Wonder starring Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts. This film is based on he...

Morgan Jerkins on Being a Black Millennial Feminist

Publication Date: 2018-02-13

Morgan Jerkins discusses her new collection of essays This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) A...

How to Get More Women into the Tech Industry

Publication Date: 2018-02-13

Dr. Cristal Glangchai, scientist and Founder/CEO of VentureLab, a non-profit that develops experiential learning programs in youth entrepreneurship, ...

The Faulty Science of Forensics

Publication Date: 2018-02-12

Meehan Crist and Tim Requarth discuss The Nation’s recent special investigation titled, “Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. W...

Debut Novel Examines Mysteries of the Self

Publication Date: 2018-02-12

Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi discusses her debut novel Freshwater. The novel focuses on a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves wi...

Book Follows Three Marriages in Mumbai

Publication Date: 2018-02-12

Elizabeth Flock, author and a reporter for PBS NewsHour, talks about her book The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai. She examines ...

Amy Sedaris Judges our Valentine's Craft Competition

Publication Date: 2018-02-12

They say you can’t hurry love, but you might be able to nudge it along with the perfect, homemade Valentine. Actress, comedian and author Amy Sedaris...

A True Story of Life, Death and Coffee

Publication Date: 2018-02-12

Bestselling author Dave Eggers and Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a Yemeni coffee farmer and the subject of Eggers' new book, discuss The Monk of Mokha. Eggers...

Alain Locke, Father of the Harlem Renaissance

Publication Date: 2018-02-11

Jeffrey Stewart discusses his new book The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, a new biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance. Based on Lock...

Please Explain British Cuisine

Publication Date: 2018-02-09

This week’s Please Explain is all about British cuisine – it’s much maligned history, and it’s bright delicious future. James Beard Award-winning aut...

How to Love the Farmers' Market in Winter

Publication Date: 2018-02-09

Allison Plumer, chef and owner of Lot 2 in Brooklyn, and Heather Rubi, a farm-to-restaurant consultant, discuss winter farmers markets: what to get, ...

The Art of Braising Meat

Publication Date: 2018-02-09

Sam Sifton, journalist and Food Editor at the New York Times, and Marco Canora, chef, restaurateur and cookbook author, discuss the delicate art of b...

Warm Spirits for the Cold Months

Publication Date: 2018-02-08

Ivy Mix, co-owner and head bartender at Leyenda, named "Best American Bartender" at "Tales of the Cocktails," discusses winter cocktails. She sha...

Warrington Hudlin on the Evolution of Black American Cinema

Publication Date: 2018-02-08

Director, producer and actor Warrington Hudlin talks about the evolution of Black American cinema and whether we’re currently in a golden age. Hudlin...

Social Media's Black Market of Stolen Identities

Publication Date: 2018-02-08

New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore discusses his recent article, “Buying Online Influence From a Shadowy Market.” He investigates social med...

A Play on the Trans Experience, Through Voices of Family

Publication Date: 2018-02-07

Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Resident Playwright at New Dramatists, discusses the New York premiere of Draw the Circle. Deen tells the hilarious and moving s...

Did Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency?

Publication Date: 2018-02-07

Lanny Davis, an attorney who served as special counsel to President Bill Clinton and as a White House spokesperson, discusses his new book, The Unmak...

David Cay Johnston on Trump's New America

Publication Date: 2018-02-07

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Cay Johnston discusses his latest book It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the The Trump Administration is Doing...

A Novel from Alaska's Early Years

Publication Date: 2018-02-07

Bestselling author Kristin Hannah discusses her new novel The Great Alone. Set in Alaska in 1974, it tells the story of two families who move to the ...

One Public Defender's Journey to Mental Health

Publication Date: 2018-02-06

Former attorney and writer Zack McDermott talks about his new book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love. McDermott, who is b...

How Lyndon B. Johnson Changed Everyday Life

Publication Date: 2018-02-06

Historian Joshua Zeitz discusses his book Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House. He looks at how LBJ’s Great Society progra...

Novel Probes a Marriage and Wrongful Conviction

Publication Date: 2018-02-06

Award-winning author Tayari Jones discusses her new novel An American Marriage. It tells the story of newlyweds Celestial and Roy. Just as they are b...

'Finding Sanctuary' from ICE in a Manhattan Church

Publication Date: 2018-02-05

Journalist Laura Gottesdiener and filmmaker/photographer Cinthya Santos Briones discuss their five-part series in The Nation, “Finding Sanctuary.” Th...

A Harrowing Escape from Boko Haram

Publication Date: 2018-02-05

Journalist Andrea Hoffman talks about her new book A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with my Daughter from Boko Haram. Hoffman interviewed and co-a...

Can a Non-Profit Drug Manufacturer Save our Healthcare System?

Publication Date: 2018-02-05

Dan Liljenquist, former lawyer and state senator in Utah, now Director of Special Projects at Intermountain Healthcare, and Dr. Erin Fox, professor a...

A Guidebook for Talking About Race

Publication Date: 2018-02-05

Ijeoma Oluo, Editor at Large for The Establishment, discusses her book So You Want to Talk About Race. She leads constructive conversations about rac...

Tell Us About The Last Time You Moved

Publication Date: 2018-02-04

Moving is the force behind some of the most controversial changes in the United States: immigration and gentrification. And soon, moving will be the ...

Annie Duke on Making Decisions under Pressure

Publication Date: 2018-02-04

Annie Duke, author and former professional poker player, discusses her new book, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All t...

'A State of Freedom' Explores Dislocation and Desire in India

Publication Date: 2018-02-04

Neel Mukherjee talks about his new novel A State of Freedom. Set in contemporary India, he tells the stories of five characters in very different cir...

How the Human Body Surpasses Its Limits

Publication Date: 2018-02-02

For this week's Please Explain, journalist Alex Hutchinson discusses his book Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performan...

Updating the Bechdel Test for the 21st Century

Publication Date: 2018-02-02

Walt Hickey, Rachel Dottle and Ella Koeze talk about their recent piece for FiveThirtyEight, "The Next Bechdel Test," which suggests new ways to ca...

How Toxic Oil Wastewater Gets into Your Food

Publication Date: 2018-02-01

Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter discusses the organization's recent investigation, Toxic Oilfield Wastewater Used to Grow Ca...

A New Yorker's Path from Debutante to Bookstore Owner

Publication Date: 2018-02-01

Jeannette Watson discusses her memoir, It's My Party. In it she tells the story of her life, born into a celebrity family and the years she spent as ...

Joanne Lipman on How to Cross the Gender Divide at Work

Publication Date: 2018-02-01

Journalist Joanne Lipman discusses her new book That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together. Fil...

One Teenager's Adventure from Queens to Antarctica in 1928

Publication Date: 2018-02-01

Laurie Gwen Shapiro talks about her new book The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica. She tells the story of Billy Gawronsk...

How the Trump Administration Gave in to Goldman Sachs

Publication Date: 2018-01-31

Gary Rivlin, a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, discusses his latest investigation at The Intercept: “Government...

Exhibition Explores the Fine Art of Neuroscience

Publication Date: 2018-01-31

Grey Art Gallery Director Lynn Gumpert and neuroscientist Dr. Larry Swanson discuss the exhibit The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y...

What Immigration Policy Looks Like on the Arizona Border

Publication Date: 2018-01-31

Jeff Reinhardt and Alicia Dinsmore, volunteers with immigrant aid organization No More Deaths, and Geoff Boyce, postdoctoral research fellow at the S...

A Documentary on New Jersey's Predecessor to Hollywood

Publication Date: 2018-01-30

Filmmakers Tom Meyers and Dennis Doros discuss The Champion: America’s First Film Town. It tells the story of The Champion Film Company in Fort Lee, ...

Why America's Fight To End Hunger is Failing

Publication Date: 2018-01-30

Andrew Fisher, who has worked in the anti-hunger field for twenty years as an executive director, researcher, policy advocate, and coalition builder,...

A Radical Political Essay in Film

Publication Date: 2018-01-30

Filmmaker Joao Moreira Salles discusses his new documentary, In the Intense Now. Inspired by Chris Marker’s meditative essays on political radicalism...

Ed Asner Stars in a Play About Conflicting Accounts of the Holocaust

Publication Date: 2018-01-30

Ed Asner and Johanna Day discuss their starring roles in the play, The Soap Myth, along with the Emmy award-winning playwright Jeff Cohen. Set more t...

How Israeli Forces Became Experts in Assassination

Publication Date: 2018-01-30

Journalist Ronen Bergman discusses his new book, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. In May, Bergman broke t...

The Times Between Consciousness

Publication Date: 2018-01-29

Kate Cole-Adams discusses her recently published book, Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness, which takes a deep dive int...

Elif Shafak's Novel on Turkey at a Crossroads

Publication Date: 2018-01-29

Internationally bestselling author Elif Shafak discusses her latest novel Three Daughters of Eve. Set over the course of an evening in Istanbul, it t...

Immigration and the American Dream Under Trump

Publication Date: 2018-01-29

Stephanie Butnick, deputy editor of Tablet Magazine and host of the podcast “Unorthodox,” comedian/columnist/radio host Dean Obeidallah and comedian ...

Why Sexual Abuse in Prison and ICE Detention Centers Goes Unchecked

Publication Date: 2018-01-29

Journalist Josephine Yurcaba discusses her story for Rewire, “For Survivors of Prison Rape, Saying ‘Me Too’ Isn’t an Option.” She investigated accoun...

How to Make Chocolate from Scratch

Publication Date: 2018-01-29

Pastry chef Lisa Vega talks about her book Making Chocolate: From Bean to Bar to S'more, which she co-authored with Todd Masonis. The book offers a c...

Let Me Be Clear

Publication Date: 2018-01-28

Journalist and author Kristin Wong discusses her recent article for The Cut on New York Magazine: “A Beginner’s Guide to Being Blunt.” She offers a d...

'The Band's Visit' From Film to Broadway

Publication Date: 2018-01-26

David Cromer, director of The Band’s Visit on Broadway, producer Orin Wolf, and Eran Kolirin, who directed the film that inspired the musical, talk a...

Mark Rylance and Claire Van Kampen with 'Farinelli and the King'

Publication Date: 2018-01-26

Mark Rylance and Claire Van Kampen discuss the Shakespeare’s Globe production of Farinelli and the King, a new play by Van Kampen on Broadway. King P...

Willem Dafoe and the Shadow of Disney World

Publication Date: 2018-01-25

Willem Dafoe discusses starring in Sean Baker's indie film, The Florida Project. Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee...

Coffee's Mysterious History and Uncertain Future

Publication Date: 2018-01-25

Jeff Koehler, author of Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup, talks about coffee's ...

How Does Your Name Influence Your Identity?

Publication Date: 2018-01-25

Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, psychology professor at the University of Oregon, discusses his article for Psychology Today, “What’s In a Name?,” which loo...

Making Sense of Digital Currency

Publication Date: 2018-01-25

Scientific American editor Jen Schwartz and Bloomberg technology writer Olga Kharif discuss the dramatic rise and plunge of Bitcoin, and why companie...

After Ferguson, A Play from the Many Faces of St. Louis

Publication Date: 2018-01-25

Playwright Dael Orlandersmith discusses Until the Flood, which she wrote and performs in. Written in response to Michael Brown’s death and commission...

Investigating the Hidden Scandals of the Business World

Publication Date: 2018-01-24

Filmmakers Kristi Jacobson and Erin Lee Carr talk about Dirty Money, the six-part investigative documentary series for Netflix. The series, directed ...

How the Latin Kings Tried to Become More Than a Gang

Publication Date: 2018-01-24

Freelance reporter and former WNYC producer Sam Anderson talks about his recent reporting for Latino USA, “The Rise and Fall of a Latin King.” The ha...

Why Certain Prosecutors Pursue Wrongful Convictions

Publication Date: 2018-01-24

Lara Bazelon discusses her recent cover story for Slate, “The Innocence Deniers,” which looks at the role of prosecutors in wrongful conviction cases...

Hurricane Harvey's Political Fallout

Publication Date: 2018-01-24

Journalist Abby Livingston discusses her article for The Texas Tribune, “Political fallout of Hurricane Harvey could begin this year in Houston.” She...

Trying to Understand a Brother's Murder, 25 Years Later

Publication Date: 2018-01-23

Filmmaker Yance Ford talks about his Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, Strong Island. In April 1992, his brother William Jr., a black 24 year-old ...

Openly Discussing Grief

Publication Date: 2018-01-23

Rebecca Soffer and Gabi Birkner talk about their new book Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome. They co-founded the websit...

The Ongoing Struggles Migrants Face

Publication Date: 2018-01-23

Filmmaker James Bluemel discusses his new Frontline documentary Exodus: The Journey Continues. The film tells the intimate stories of refugees and mi...

An Activist's Journey

Publication Date: 2018-01-23

Melba Pattillo Beals talks about her life and work, along with her latest book for children called, March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little...

An Eyewitness Account from Waco

Publication Date: 2018-01-23

David Thibodeau discusses the new six-part series Waco, which premieres on the new Paramount Network starting January 24 at 10 p.m. He’s the author o...

How Childhood Stress Leads to Lifelong Health Problems

Publication Date: 2018-01-21

Nadine Burke Harris, the founder and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point, discusses her book The Deepest We...

Nigeria's Political Satire Goes Prime Time

Publication Date: 2018-01-21

New Yorker staff writer Adrian Chen discusses his latest piece titled, “The Comedy Caucus.” He traces the development of the first season of The Othe...

Consent in the Age of #MeToo

Publication Date: 2018-01-21

Stand-up comedian Leah Bonnema, comedian, actor and writer Jena Friedman and comedian/writer Judy Gold discuss #MeToo, harassment and the larger ques...

The Conservative Shift in the Immigration Debate

Publication Date: 2018-01-21

Anna Barry-Jester talks about her latest story for FiveThirtyEight, “There’s Been A Massive Shift To The Right In The Immigration Debate.” The articl...

The Perilous Conditions for Cleaning Crews in Slaughterhouses

Publication Date: 2018-01-18

Peter Waldman and Kartikay Mehrotra discuss their article for Bloomberg Businessweek, “America’s Worst Graveyard Shift Is Grinding Up Workers.” The a...

Opera Crosses the Stylistic Border to Mariachi

Publication Date: 2018-01-18

Michael Capasso, Octavio Moreno and Leonard Foglia discuss the world's first mariachi opera, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the Moon...

Singing Partners, Onstage and Off

Publication Date: 2018-01-18

Tenor Roberto Alagna and soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, husband and wife duo, discuss starring together in Pagliacci, the second half of the Cavalleria R...

The Miraculous Science of Everyday Life

Publication Date: 2018-01-18

Physicist, oceanographer, and author Helen Czerski explains the physics of everyday life. In addition to her work at the University College London, w...

A Musical Celebration of Love in the Caribbean

Publication Date: 2018-01-17

Lea Salonga talks about starring in the Broadway revival of Once on this Island, along with Lynn Ahrens, who wrote the book and lyrics. Based on the ...

Uma Thurman Comes to Broadway

Publication Date: 2018-01-17

Uma Thurman discusses her Broadway debut in The Parisian Woman, the new play written by House of Cards creator Beau Willimon and directed by Pam MacK...

Fiona Mozley's Debut Novel, A Dark Landscape of Rural England

Publication Date: 2018-01-17

Fiona Mozley discusses her novel Elmet, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. It tells the story of a family living an isolated, self-sufficient life ...

Why Neglecting Asthma Can Be Profitable for Hospitals

Publication Date: 2018-01-17

Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News senior correspondent, and Rachel Bluth, a Peggy Girshman Web Reporting Fellow, share their recent investigation for K...

How New Networks Break Old Hierarchies

Publication Date: 2018-01-17

Historian Niall Ferguson discusses his new book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. He tells the story of ...

Richard Jenkins on Working with Guillermo Del Toro

Publication Date: 2018-01-16

Richard Jenkins discusses his role in director Guillermo Del Toro’s award-winning film, The Shape of Water. The film is set during the Cold War and t...

Why Some Rockefellers Are Fighting the Company that Made Them Rich

Publication Date: 2018-01-16

New York Magazine contributing editor Reeves Wiedeman discusses his latest story, “The Rockefellers vs. The Company that Made Them The Rockefellers.”...

The Lethal Consequences of Deportation

Publication Date: 2018-01-16

Sarah Stillman discusses her recent story for the The New Yorker, “When Deportation Is a Death Sentence,” on the tragic consequences of deportation f...

The Women Who Lead Black Lives Matter

Publication Date: 2018-01-15

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, artist, organizer and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, talks about her memoir When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives M...

The Threat of Gentrification With Rezoning in East Harlem

Publication Date: 2018-01-15

Jennifer Levy, Supervising Attorney for the Civil Law Reform Unit of The Legal Aid Society and staff attorney Kat Meyers talk about the City’s new re...

Nick Harkaway's New Dystopian Novel

Publication Date: 2018-01-15

Nick Harkaway discusses his fourth novel, Gnomon. In this world, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of “transparen...

The Vulnerable Position of Female Janitors

Publication Date: 2018-01-15

Producer Daffodil Altan discusses the new Frontline documentary, “Rape on the Night Shift” which airs January 16 on PBS at 10 PM. It looks at how imm...

Spying on Reporters in the War on Terror

Publication Date: 2018-01-14

Journalist James Risen, The Intercept’s senior national security correspondent, talks about his latest story, “The Biggest Secret: My Life as a New Y...

A Chilean Love Story That Could Make Oscar History

Publication Date: 2018-01-14

Writer/director Sebastian Lelio discusses A Fantastic Woman, along with actress Daniela Vega who stars in it. It tells the story of Marina (Vega) and...

In Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Days, A Strike in Memphis

Publication Date: 2018-01-14

Journalist Ted Conover talks about his latest article for Smithsonian magazine called, “I Am a Man.” He looks at one of the last things Martin Luther...

From James Baldwin To Ferguson

Publication Date: 2018-01-14

Hébert Peck discusses the Oscar-nominated documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, which he produced with his brother, director Raoul Peck. Based on the wri...

Love and Loss in Modern Day Russia

Publication Date: 2018-01-12

Writer/director Andrey Zvyagintsev discusses his new film Loveless. It tells the story of Russian couple Zhenya and Boris who are going through a vic...

How the Gang MS-13 is Being Used to Justify Immigration Policy

Publication Date: 2018-01-12

New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer discusses his recent piece in the January 1 issue, “The Teens Trapped Between a Gang and The Law.” He report...

How Do Our Senses Work?

Publication Date: 2018-01-11

Rob DeSalle, curator at the American Museum of Natural History and professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School, is the author of Our Senses: An I...

Phil Rosenthal Takes You on a Global Culinary Tour

Publication Date: 2018-01-11

Phil Rosenthal, the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, talks about his new Netflix series, Somebody Feed Phil, which follows him as he eats his way ...

Has the EPA Failed to Effectively Regulate Chemical Spills?

Publication Date: 2018-01-11

Award-winning filmmaker Cullen Hoback talks about his new film What Lies Upstream, which focuses on an investigation into a chemical spill in West Vi...

Iran's Information War

Publication Date: 2018-01-10

Dr. Haroon Ullah, Chief Strategy Officer at the Broadcasting Board of Governors and author of new book, Digital World War, discusses “There is No Bac...

Donald Sutherland: from Boston to Key West by RV

Publication Date: 2018-01-10

Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland discusses starring in the new film The Leisure Seeker directed by Paolo Virzì, winner of the 2017 David di Dona...

The Case for Civility

Publication Date: 2018-01-10

Lea Berman, who served as White House Social Secretary from 2004–2007, was Chief of Staff to Second Lady Lynne Cheney from 2002–2003, and Jeremy Bern...

Michael Wolff's Explosive Book From Inside the Trump White House

Publication Date: 2018-01-10

Author Michael Wolff discusses his new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. He details the first nine months of Donald Trump’s term, dra...

Christopher Yates's New Novel

Publication Date: 2018-01-10

Novelist Christopher Yates talks about his second book Grist Mill Road. Set in 1982 in a small town in upstate New York, it tells the story of three ...

2017 Word of the Year

Publication Date: 2018-01-10

Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer discusses the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year voting and the nominated words and phrase...

Where Was Your Smartphone Made?

Publication Date: 2018-01-10

Journalist Michelle Chen talks about her recent investigation for The Nation, “Was Your Smartphone Built in a Sweatshop?” She details an in-depth inv...

The Untold Stories of a WWII French Resistance Fighter

Publication Date: 2018-01-09

Paul Kix talks about his new book The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando. He tells one of the untold stories...

How Will Big Data Affect Policing?

Publication Date: 2018-01-09

Andrew G. Ferguson, Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia's David A. Clarke School of Law, discusses his book The Rise of B...

David Lebovitz's Secrets to Living in Paris

Publication Date: 2018-01-08

Chef and author David Lebovitz discusses his new book L’Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home. He tells the story of his experie...

Dr. Ruth and Romantic Expectations

Publication Date: 2018-01-08

Therapist and author Dr. Ruth Westheimer talks about her latest book Stay or Go: Dr. Ruth’s Rules for Relationships. She delves into everything from ...

Bob Garfield's One-Man Show

Publication Date: 2018-01-07

Bob Garfield, co-host of On the Media, discusses his new one-man show Ruggedly Jewish. It’s described as, “a raw, wistful, hilarious and disturbing e...

Local News's Decline

Publication Date: 2018-01-07

Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and journalist and former...

The Falsity of the Term 'Post-Truth'

Publication Date: 2018-01-07

Slate columnist Dan Engber talks about his cover story for Slate called, “LOL Something Matters.” He debunks popular perceptions about people's resis...

An Industrial Hygienist's Perspective on the Trump Administration

Publication Date: 2018-01-07

Industrial hygienist Monona Rossol discusses how the Trump administration is weakening protections on hazardous chemicals. She looks at how new appoi...

What Happened to Marcelo Gomes, Ballet's Rising Star

Publication Date: 2018-01-04

David Barba talks about his and James Pellerito's film about Marcelo Gomes, Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer, which they directed, wrote, edited, and ...

A Health Crisis For Women in Saudi Arabia

Publication Date: 2018-01-04

Sarah Aziza, a contributor for Harper’s Magazine, discusses her latest piece for the magazine called, “Body Politic.” She met with Saudi Arabian Prin...

Why the Death Toll in Puerto Rico Is Rising

Publication Date: 2018-01-04

Freelance journalist Mattathias Schwartz discusses his recent cover story for New York Magazine, "Maria's Bodies." The article is also available in...

Have You Broken Your New Year's Resolution Yet?

Publication Date: 2018-01-04

Our latest Please Explain is all about New Year’s Resolutions -- how to make them, how to keep them, and what to do when you don’t. We will take list...

The Culture of Harassment at Ford

Publication Date: 2018-01-03

Susan Chira, a senior correspondent and editor on gender issues, and Catrin Einhorn, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, discuss their ...

Questioning Gardasil's Testing, Without Being Anti-Vaccine

Publication Date: 2018-01-03

Journalist Frederik Joelving, and Slate's science editor Susan Matthews, discuss Joelving's article, “What the Gardasil Testing May Have Missed,” pub...

Manhattan Theatre Club's 'The Children'

Publication Date: 2018-01-03

Francesca Annis, Ron Cook, and Deborah Findlay talk about starring in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of The Children. In a remote cottage on t...

'Under the Radar Festival'

Publication Date: 2018-01-03

“Under the Radar Festival” director Mark Russell discusses the 2018 festival, along with Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, from the Obie Award-winning Na...

Are You What You Eat?

Publication Date: 2018-01-02

Rachel Herz, a neuroscientist specializing in perception and emotion, discusses her book Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationshi...

MoMA's 'The Long Run'

Publication Date: 2018-01-02

Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, and Cara Manes, Assistant Curator in the ...

Do Germans Raise More Self-Reliant Children?

Publication Date: 2018-01-02

Sara Zaske talks about her new book Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children. Zaske details her own experienc...

A History Through Store Fronts

Publication Date: 2018-01-02

James and Karla Murray talk about their latest book Store Front II: A History Preserved. They have been photographing New York City since the 1990s,...

Appalachian History

Publication Date: 2018-01-01

Steven Stoll, a professor of history at Fordham University, talks about his new book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. He examines the region’s...

Poetry for Your Commute

Publication Date: 2018-01-01

Alice Quinn, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, discusses ...

What Part Of 2017 Has Been Most Stressful?

Publication Date: 2017-12-27

For this week's Please Explain, Ankita Rao, editor at VICE, talks about the VICE series On Edge, and her own experiences hacking her stress. Her stor...

When Recy Taylor Fought Back In Jim Crow South

Publication Date: 2017-12-27

Documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski discusses her new film, “The Rape of Recy Taylor.” It tells the story of a 24-year-old black mother and sharecro...

The 'Cake Artist,' The Supreme Court, And The Impact on LGBTQ Rights

Publication Date: 2017-12-26

Sarah Posner, a reporter with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, discusses her special investigation, "The Christian Legal Army Behind ...

Joan Silber's Novel, 'Improvement'

Publication Date: 2017-12-26

Joan Silber discusses her new novel, Improvement. It tells the story of a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt and the decision...

Where Life And Literature Meet

Publication Date: 2017-12-26

Award-winning novelist Kathleen Hill talks about her memoir She Read to Us in The Late Afternoons: A Life in Novels. She explores defining moments of...

When A Religious Battle Over Sex Turned Political

Publication Date: 2017-12-26

R. Marie Griffith, the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses her book, Moral Co...

The Gurus Of How-To Return

Publication Date: 2017-12-25

Al and Larry Ubell, our Gurus of How-To, return just in time for winter home repairs and projects! This is a rebroadcast of a segment guest hosted b...

Jenna Coleman As Queen Victoria

Publication Date: 2017-12-25

Jenna Coleman discusses her starring role in "Victoria" on Masterpiece for PBS which begins its second season on January 14, along with Rufus Sewel...

Annette Bening & Peter Turner Discuss 'Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool'

Publication Date: 2017-12-25

Annette Bening and Peter Turner discuss "Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool." The film is based on Turner’s memoir, originally published in the earl...

Andy Goldsworthy on His New Book 'Projects'

Publication Date: 2017-12-25

Artist Andy Goldsworthy discusses Projects, in which he presents more than 40 of his recent large-scale sculptural work from around the world. Using ...

The Irish Repertory Theatre's Stage Adaption of James Joyce’s 'The Dead'

Publication Date: 2017-12-22

Actor Rufus Collins, along with director Ciaran O'Reilly and Pullitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, discuss the Irish Repertory Theatre stage ada...

How the U.S. Has Made it a Crime to Be Poor

Publication Date: 2017-12-22

Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman discusses his new book Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America. Edelman reveals how ...

Please Explain: How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are

Publication Date: 2017-12-22

This week's Please Explain takes a look at how our brains make us who we are and shape our understanding of the world. Keith Blanchard, CEO of Teamst...

Are There Medical Benefits to Psychedelic Drugs?

Publication Date: 2017-12-22

Adam Strauss is the writer/performer of “The Mushroom Cure,” a one-man show about his attempts to cure his OCD with hallucinogenic mushrooms. It's pl...

Bill Charlap Helps Us Celebrate the Holidays

Publication Date: 2017-12-21

Jazz pianist Bill Charlap helps us celebrate the holidays and performs live in studio. Event: Bill Charlap will perform at the 2018 Disability Pride ...

A Playful Adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice'

Publication Date: 2017-12-20

Actor/playwright Kate Hamill and actor Jason O'Connell discuss their production of Pride and Prejudice at the Cherry Lane Theatre through January 6. ...

Melissa Clark on Delicious Gifts to Make and Give

Publication Date: 2017-12-20

New York Times food columnist and cookbook author Melissa Clark talks about delicious treats to make and give for the holidays, and answers listener ...

Mezzo Susan Graham & Tenor Paul Groves Star in 'The Merry Widow'

Publication Date: 2017-12-20

Grammy Award-winning mezzo soprano Susan Graham talks about her starring role in Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera, along with ...

Could Cryptocurrencies Help Decrease Economic Inequality?

Publication Date: 2017-12-20

Alexander Lipton, Founder and CEO of StrongHold Labs and Connection Science Fellow at M.I.T., and Scientific American editor Jen Schwartz join us to ...

The Enduring Yiddish New York Festival

Publication Date: 2017-12-20

Josh Waletzky and Deborah Strauss join us to discuss the Yiddish New York Festival, which celebrates and engages with East European Jewish traditions...

The FBI’s First White-Collar Undercover Sting

Publication Date: 2017-12-20

David Howard joins us to discuss his new book Chasing Phil: The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World's Most Charming Con Man. The FBI’s...

Philip Galanes Answers Your 2017 Holiday Etiquette Questions!

Publication Date: 2017-12-20

New York Times “Social Qs” columnist Philip Galanes offers advice on etiquette and tricky social situations as the holiday season is here. What's mak...

Joseph Conrad As A Prophet Of Globalization

Publication Date: 2017-12-18

Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. Jasanoff examines the forces that shaped Joseph Conrad’s dest...

Tracking Down the Most Corrupt Bank in the World

Publication Date: 2017-12-18

Alex Campbell, deputy investigations editor for Buzzfeed UK, discusses his recent article, co-written with Tom Warren, “Revealed: The Secrets Of One ...

Icelandic Author Olaf Olafsson on 'One Station Away'

Publication Date: 2017-12-18

Icelandic businessman and author Olaf Olafsson joins us to discuss his new novel One Station Away. The story weaves together the lives of three diffe...

Exposing Corruption in the Medical Device Industry

Publication Date: 2017-12-18

Award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer discusses her new book The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One M...

What It Will Take to Rebuild Puerto Rico

Publication Date: 2017-12-18

Monte Reel discusses his article for Bloomberg Businessweek, “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico.” He looks at why, three months after Hurricane Maria, the i...

Celebrating the History of Tap with Michelle Dorrance at the Joyce

Publication Date: 2017-12-18

Michelle Dorrance, dancer, founder and artistic director of Dorrance Dance, talks about her upcoming engagement at the Joyce engagement from December...

John Lurie Returns as 'Marvin Pontiac' With His First Album in 17 Years

Publication Date: 2017-12-18

Artist and musician John Lurie discusses his first album in 17 years, released under the pseudonym, Marvin Pontiac, titled "Marvin Pontiac: The Asyl...

Winter Greenery With Gerard Lordahl

Publication Date: 2017-12-18

Gerard Lordahl, the Greening Director of GrowNYC, talks about December gardening, from indoor/outdoor gardening and holiday plants, to preparing gard...

WNYC Kids Presents 'This Podcast Has Fleas'

Publication Date: 2017-12-14

Emily Lynne, Koyalee Chanda and Adam Peltzman talk about the launch of WNYC Kids and WNYC Studios first scripted comedy podcast for kids called, “Thi...

How Recy Taylor Fought Back In Jim Crow South

Publication Date: 2017-12-14

Documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski discusses her new film, “The Rape of Recy Taylor.” It tells the story of a 24-year-old black mother and sharecro...

What Part Of 2017 Has Stressed You Out the Most?

Publication Date: 2017-12-14

For this week's Please Explain, Ankita Rao, editor at VICE, talks about the VICE series On Edge, and her own experiences hacking her stress. Her stor...

What's Happening To Our National Monuments?

Publication Date: 2017-12-14

Journalist Elliott Woods discusses his recent article for Outside magazine, “Ryan Zinke Is Trump's Attack Dog on the Environment.” He profiles Interi...

When Life And Literature Meet

Publication Date: 2017-12-13

Award-winning novelist Kathleen Hill talks about her memoir She Read to Us in The Late Afternoons: A Life in Novels. She explores defining moments of...

The 'Cake Artist,' The Supreme Court, And The Future Of LGBTQ Rights

Publication Date: 2017-12-13

Sarah Posner, a reporter with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, discusses her special investigation, "The Christian Legal Army Behind ...

Joan Silber's Novel, 'Improvement'

Publication Date: 2017-12-13

Joan Silber discusses her new novel, Improvement. It tells the story of a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt and the decision...

How A Religious Battle Over Sex Turned Political

Publication Date: 2017-12-13

R. Marie Griffith, the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses her book, Moral Co...

Jenna Coleman Stars As Queen Victoria

Publication Date: 2017-12-12

Jenna Coleman discusses her starring role in "Victoria" on Masterpiece for PBS which begins its second season on January 14, along with Rufus Sewel...

Annette Bening & Peter Turner on 'Film Stars Don't die in Liverpool'

Publication Date: 2017-12-12

Annette Bening and Peter Turner discuss "Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool." The film is based on Turner’s memoir, originally published in the earl...

Our Gurus Of How-To Return

Publication Date: 2017-12-12

Al and Larry Ubell, our Gurus of How-To, return just in time for winter home repairs and projects! Have a question? Write it to us in a comment below...

Andy Goldsworthy's 'Projects'

Publication Date: 2017-12-12

Artist Andy Goldsworthy discusses Projects, in which he presents more than 40 of his recent large-scale sculptural work from around the world. Using ...

Book Club: The Scary Story Edition

Publication Date: 2017-12-12

Edgar Award-winning crime/thriller novelist and television writer Megan Abbott joins us to talk about our scary story contest, and we will speak to t...

New York Magazine's 'Reasons to Love New York'

Publication Date: 2017-12-12

Carl Swanson, New York Magazine's editor-at-large, talks about the publication's annual feature, "Reasons to Love New York." For every day of 2017....

What Altruists Have in Common with Serial Killers

Publication Date: 2017-12-12

Psychologist Abigail Marsh discusses The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between. She argues that all h...

Tonya Harding Revisited

Publication Date: 2017-12-12

Screenwriter Steven Rogers discusses his new film, "I, Tonya," starring Margot Robbie and Allison Janney. It’s based on the true story of American ...

The Military Explosives Buried in Your Backyard

Publication Date: 2017-12-10

Senior ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten discusses his investigation “Open Burns, Ill Winds.” This story looks at how the military spends more th...

Inside the Plot to Bomb Garden City, Kansas

Publication Date: 2017-12-10

Jessica Pressler discusses her article in the December 11-14 issue of New York Magazine, "The Insane Plot to Bomb Garden City Kansas." She investig...

Director Errol Morris on 'Wormwood' with Peter Sarsgaard

Publication Date: 2017-12-10

Director Errol Morris talks about his new miniseries “Wormwood,” along with Peter Sarsgaard, who stars in it. This six-part series explores the limit...

What Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea Means for Trump

Publication Date: 2017-12-10

Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker staff writer and chief legal analyst for CNN, discusses his latest piece, “The Russia Portfolio” (Online: Michael Flynn’s ...