Best WNYC Studios and The New Yorker Podcasts (2025)

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A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza 26:05

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Mohammed R. Mhawish was living in Gaza City during Israel’s invasion, in the immediate aftermath of the October 7th attack. He witnessed the invasion for months and reported on its devastating consequences for Al Jazeera, The Nation, and other outlets. After his home was targeted in an Israeli strike, which nearly killed him, he fled Gaza. In The N…

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A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza 26:43

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Mohammed R. Mhawish was living in Gaza City during Israel’s invasion, in the immediate aftermath of the October 7th attack. He witnessed the invasion for months and reported on its devastating consequences for Al Jazeera, The Nation, and other outlets. After his home was targeted in an Israeli strike, which nearly killed him, he fled Gaza. In The N…

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Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light” 18:36

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Miriam Toews reads her story “Something Has Come to Light,” from the August 25, 2025, issue of the magazine. Toews, a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, is the author of eight novels, including “A Complicated Kindness,” “All My Puny Sorrows,” “Women Talking,” and “Fight Night.” A new memoir, “A Truce That Is Not Peace,” comes out t…

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Spike Lee and Denzel Washington on a Reunion Making “Highest 2 Lowest” 23:58

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Spike Lee and Denzel Washington first worked together on “Mo’ Better Blues,” released in 1990. Washington starred as a trumpet player trying to make a living in jazz clubs; Lee, who directed the film, also played the musician’s hapless manager. They later worked together on “Malcolm X” and other films, but it has been nearly twenty years since thei…

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Garrett Hongo Reads Charles Wright 42:04

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Garrett Hongo joins Kevin Young to read “T’ang Notebook” by Charles Wright, and his own poem “On Emptiness.” Garrett Hongo is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction, including “Ocean of Clouds” and “The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo.” He's received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts,…

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What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE? 43:02

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The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Donald Trump’s second-term immigration agenda has shifted from border enforcement to an unprecedented campaign of interior deportations. They talk about the expansion of detention through military bases and state-run facilities, the changes to long-standing arrest proto…

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Richard Brody Picks Three Favorite Clint Eastwood Films 16:16

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With seven decades in film and television, Clint Eastwood is undeniably a Hollywood institution. Emerging first as a star in Westerns, then as the embattled cop in the Dirty Harry films, the ninety-five-year-old filmmaker has directed forty features and appeared in more than sixty. The film critic Richard Brody just reviewed a new biography of East…

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Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law 33:22

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From the attempt to end birthright citizenship to the gutting of congressionally authorized agencies, the Trump Administration has created an enormous number of legal controversies. The Radio Hour asked for listeners’ questions about President Trump and the courts. To answer them, David Remnick speaks with two regular contributors: Ruth Marcus, who…

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Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law 34:14

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From the attempt to end birthright citizenship to the gutting of congressionally authorized agencies, the Trump Administration has created an enormous number of legal controversies. The Radio Hour asked for listeners’ questions about President Trump and the courts. To answer them, David Remnick speaks with two regular contributors: Ruth Marcus, who…

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Jamaica Kincaid on “Putting Myself Together” 25:53

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Jamaica Kincaid began writing for The New Yorker in 1974, reporting about life in the magazine’s home city. She was a young immigrant from Antigua, then a British colony; she had been sent to New York—against her wishes—to work as a nanny. Soon began a love affair with New York’s literary scene. “I had to change my name,” she tells David Remnick, “…

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Kiran Desai Reads "An Unashamed Proposal" 57:18

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Kiran Desai reads her story “An Unashamed Proposal,” from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. Desai is the author of the novels “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” and “The Inheritance of Loss,” which won the Booker Prize in 2006. A new novel, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” from which this story was adapted, will be published this fall.…

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John Brennan, Former C.I.A. Director, on Being Targeted by Trump 26:49

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In Donald Trump’s first term, he was furious that people were investigating his connections to Russia—“Russia, Russia, Russia,” he complained. Now, as Trump fulfills a campaign promise of retribution, his Administration has put the Russia “hoax” back into the headlines. They claim to have opened investigations into the former F.B.I. director James …

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Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick 1:12:03

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Lauren Groff joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Faithful,” by Elizabeth Hardwick, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Groff’s works of fiction include the novels “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,” both of which were finalists for the National Book Award, and “The Vaster Wilds,” which was published in 2023. A new story collecti…

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How Bad Is It?: Trump’s War on Comedians 45:12

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The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a monthly series on the health of American democracy. Their guest is Roy Wood, Jr., the host of the satirical program “Have I Got News for You,” on CNN. The group discusses the significance of CBS’s cancellation of “The Late Show with Step…

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Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare 21:47

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Since the end of the Cold War, most Americans have taken U.S. military supremacy for granted. We can no longer afford to do so, according to reporting by the staff writer Dexter Filkins. China has developed advanced weapons that rival or surpass America’s; and at the same time, drone warfare has fundamentally changed calculations of the battlefield…

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Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles 28:46

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The city of Los Angeles has declared itself a sanctuary city, where local authorities do not share information with federal immigration enforcement. But L.A.—where nearly forty per cent of residents are foreign-born—became ground zero for controversial arrests and deportations by ICE. The Trump Administration deployed marines and the National Guard…

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Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast” 51:53

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Anne Enright reads her story “The Bridge Stood Fast,” from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine. Enright has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “Yesterday’s Weather,” and the novels “The Gathering,” which won the Man Booker Prize, “Actress,” and “The Wren, The Wren.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/…

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Wired’s Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE 36:24

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The Washington Roundtable’s Evan Osnos interviews Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired, about the publication’s scoop-filled coverage of DOGE, and what Elon Musk’s experience in Washington taught Silicon Valley leaders. “They know that they can operate with relative impunity, and they are now lining themselves up next to a Preside…

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Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles 29:02

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The city of Los Angeles has declared itself a sanctuary city, where local authorities do not share information with federal immigration enforcement. But L.A.—where nearly forty per cent of residents are foreign-born—became ground zero for controversial arrests and deportations by ICE. The Trump Administration deployed marines and the National Guard…

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How the Epstein Conspiracy Theory Took Over Politics 46:08

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The New Yorker contributor Jon Allsop joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how President Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files has fractured his base, and how the Democratic Party has increasingly weaponized the Epstein conspiracy theory in its attempt to combat the MAGA movement. How do we proceed given that our country’s politics are increasingl…

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Sasha Debevec-McKenney Reads Gabrielle Calvocoressi 38:47

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Sasha Debevec-McKenney joins Kevin Young to read “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern,” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and her own poem “Kaepernick.” Debevec-McKenney is the author of the new poetry collection “Joy Is My Middle Name.” She was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, and a creative-writing fellow at Emory University. H…

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Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington” 25:17

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“I’m personally desperate for art that at least attempts to grapple with whatever the hell is going on right now,” the writer-director Ari Aster tells Adam Howard, a senior producer of the Radio Hour. “ ‘Eddington’ is a film about a bunch of people who . . . know that something’s wrong. They just—nobody can agree on what that thing is.” Many of us …

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Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt over Jeffrey Epstein 25:04

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The sense that the White House is covering something up about Jeffrey Epstein has led to backlash from some of Trump’s most ardent supporters. Even after the financier was convicted for hiring an underage prostitute, for which he served a brief and extraordinarily lenient sentence, Epstein remained a playboy, a top political donor, and a very good …

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A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza 26:05

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A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza 26:43

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Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light” 18:36

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Spike Lee and Denzel Washington on a Reunion Making “Highest 2 Lowest” 23:58

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Garrett Hongo Reads Charles Wright 42:04

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What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE? 43:02

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Richard Brody Picks Three Favorite Clint Eastwood Films 16:16

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Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law 33:22

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Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law 34:14

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Jamaica Kincaid on “Putting Myself Together” 25:53

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Kiran Desai Reads "An Unashamed Proposal" 57:18

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John Brennan, Former C.I.A. Director, on Being Targeted by Trump 26:49

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Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick 1:12:03

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How Bad Is It?: Trump’s War on Comedians 45:12

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Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare 21:47

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Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles 28:46

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Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast” 51:53

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Wired’s Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE 36:24

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How the Epstein Conspiracy Theory Took Over Politics 46:08

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Sasha Debevec-McKenney Reads Gabrielle Calvocoressi 38:47

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Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington” 25:17

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Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt over Jeffrey Epstein 25:04