Best WNYC Studios and The New Yorker Podcasts (2023)

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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Caleb Crain Reads “Keats at Twenty-Four” 16:26

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Caleb Crain reads his story “Keats at Twenty-Four,” from the December 11, 2023, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors,” which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019.By WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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How Henry Kissinger Conquered Washington 39:22

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The Washington Roundtable: Henry Kissinger, who died this week, at the age of a hundred, served in the Nixon and Ford Administrations as national-security adviser and Secretary of State; for a period, he was both at the same time. Kissinger fled Nazi Germany as a teen-ager, and went on to advise a dozen U.S. Presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe …

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Dolly Parton “Busted a Gut” Reaching for the High Notes on “Rockstar” 24:27

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After six decades as an icon in country music, it’s hard to imagine Dolly Parton had anything to prove. But when she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, in 2022, she admitted to feeling uneasy. A result of that feeling is “Rockstar,” the 77-year-old’s first foray into rock music. “I wanted the rock people to be proud of me, let’s put it…

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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Teju Cole Reads Anne Carson 52:56

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Teju Cole joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “1=1,” by Anne Carson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Cole’s novels include “Open City” and “Tremor,” which was published this year.By Deborah Treisman

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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Geoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence 31:39

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The American public’s increasing fascination with artificial intelligence—its rapid advancement and ability to reshape the future—has put the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton in an awkward position. He is known as the godfather of A.I. because of his groundbreaking work in neural networks, a branch of computer science that most researchers had gi…

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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Teju Cole Reads “Incoming” 20:48

7d ago20:48

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Teju Cole reads his story “Incoming,” which appears in the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cole, a winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Windham Campbell Literature Prize, is a novelist, critic, curator, and essayist. His novel “Tremor” was published earlier this year and a new book, “Pharmakon,” a collection of prose pieces and photog…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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“Maestro” is the “Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done” 49:20

6d ago49:20

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As a child, Bradley Cooper would mime conducting an orchestra, and he asked for a baton from Santa. Decades later, as a filmmaker, he fulfilled his childhood dreams in the acclaimed new film “Maestro.” Cooper co-wrote and directed the movie, and co-stars as Leonard Bernstein, perhaps the greatest American conductor ever. In a pivotal scene, Cooper …

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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What Draws Latino Voters to Trump 37:27

7d ago37:27

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How is it that Donald Trump, who won the Presidency with racist rhetoric and a promise to build a wall along the southern border, has managed to make gains in the Latino community with each election cycle since 2016? Geraldo Cadava, a historian and New Yorker contributing writer, joins Tyler Foggatt to consider recent polling and the issues that ma…

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The New Yorker: Poetry

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Bianca Stone Reads Franz Wright 43:07

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Bianca Stone joins Kevin Young to read “Learning to Read,” by Franz Wright, and her own poem “What’s Poetry Like?” Stone has published several books of poetry and poetry comics, including, most recently, “What Is Otherwise Infinite.” She runs the Ruth Stone House in Vermont, hosts the podcast “Ode & Psyche,” and serves as Editor at Large for Iteran…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Geoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence 32:49

13d ago32:49

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The American public’s increasing fascination with artificial intelligence—its rapid advancement and ability to reshape the future—has put the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton in an awkward position. He is known as the godfather of A.I. because of his groundbreaking work in neural networks, a branch of computer science that most researchers had gi…

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad 16:24

11d ago16:24

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Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is a noted historian of antisemitism, and serves the State Department as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Violence and threats against Jews have been surging for years. “We’ve been seeing [antisemitism] coming from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between,” Lipstadt tells David Remnick. “We see…

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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa 1:11:15

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The story in The New Yorker’s November 27, 2023, issue is “Beauty Contest,” by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Steven Snyder. Ogawa was not able to read her story for The Writer’s Voice, but, on a recent episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the writer Madeleine Thien read and discussed Ogawa’s 2004 story “The Cafeteria in the Even…

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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Trump’s Vindictive Second-Term Agenda 35:04

12d ago35:04

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The Washington Roundtable: In recent weeks, Americans have begun to get a clearer picture of what a second Donald Trump Administration could look like. Some clues have come from organizations like the Heritage Foundation, which has laid out policy proposals for the Trump campaign. Others have come from the former President himself. Trump has said h…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad 17:06

12d ago17:06

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Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is a noted historian of antisemitism, and serves the State Department as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Violence and threats against Jews have been surging for years. “We’ve been seeing [antisemitism] coming from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between,” Lipstadt tells David Remnick. “We see…

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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We've Been Wrong to Worry About Deepfakes (So Far) 28:47

19d ago28:47

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Deepfakes, videos generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence, allow people to create content at a level of sophistication once only available to major Hollywood studios. Since the first deepfakes arrived seven years ago, experts have feared that doctored videos would undermine politics, or, worse, delegitimize all visual evidence. In this …

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Emerald Fennell’s Anatomy of Desire 29:05

15d ago29:05

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For the follow-up to her acclaimed and controversial début feature film, “Promising Young Woman,” the writer and director Emerald Fennell (also well known as an actor on “The Crown”) has made a dark satire of not just aristocracy but our collective preoccupation with it. “Saltburn” follows a college student who joins a wealthy classmate at his fami…

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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Sheila Heti Reads “According to Alice” 33:07

16d ago33:07

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Sheila Heti reads her story “According to Alice,” which appears in the November 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. Heti wrote this story in collaboration with a customizable chatbot on the Chai AI platform, which she began engaging in conversation in 2022. Heti is the author of seven books, including the novels “Motherhood,” which was short-listed fo…

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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Will the Government Rein in Amazon? 20:30

16d ago20:30

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In a relatively short period of time, Amazon has exerted an enormous amount of influence over a broad spectrum of American life. From the groceries we buy to the movies and television shows we watch, Amazon has been setting the prices and driving potential competition out of business. Its prices may seem low, but “Amazon has actually quietly been h…

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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The Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election 37:15

19d ago37:15

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The Washington Roundtable: In this past week’s off-cycle elections, Ohioans voted to enshrine the right to abortion access in their state constitution; Virginia Democrats took full control of their General Assembly blue; and deep-red Kentucky reëlected Democratic Governor Andy Beshear. Abortion is “an incredibly powerful issue that has the possibil…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Will the Government Put the Reins on Amazon? 21:30

19d ago21:30

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In a relatively short period of time, Amazon has exerted an enormous amount of influence over a broad spectrum of American life. From the groceries we buy to the movies and television shows we watch, Amazon has been setting the prices and driving potential competition out of business. Its prices may seem low, but “Amazon has actually quietly been h…

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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Inside the Democratic Party’s Rift Over Israel and Gaza 33:00

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Andrew Marantz, who has reported extensively on the far right and far left of American politics, recently wrote a piece about how the different wings of the Democratic Party have responded to Hamas’s terror attack and to Israel’s war on Gaza. Whereas the majority of Congress joined on to a resolution to support Israel with no preconditions, members…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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From “On the Media”: David Remnick Talks with Brooke Gladstone About Reporting in Israel 21:14

26d ago21:14

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As Israel marks one month since the deadliest terrorist attack in its history, David Remnick sits down with Brooke Gladstone, the host of the podcast “On the Media,” to talk about reporting on the conflict. He spent a week in Israel as people were reeling from the horrors of October 7th and as the Israeli government was launching an unprecedented c…

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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Our Time Is Up” 39:24

27d ago39:24

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Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Our Time Is Up,” which appears in the November 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich’s début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021, was a finalist for the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize, and she was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022.…

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