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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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

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Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions?

Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions?

The practice of legacy admissions—preferential consideration of the children of alumni—has emerged as a national flash p... Read more

11 Aug 2023

30mins

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James McBride on His New Novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”

James McBride on His New Novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”

James McBride’s new novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” centers on the discovery of a skeleton at the bottom ... Read more

8 Aug 2023

14mins

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Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music

Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music

Last month, the country singer Jason Aldean released a music video for “Try That in a Small Town,” a song that initially... Read more

4 Aug 2023

36mins

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A Trip to the Boundary Waters

A Trip to the Boundary Waters

Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty and violence. His books set in ... Read more

1 Aug 2023

17mins

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Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After”

Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After”

Twenty years ago, Regina Spektor was yet another aspiring musician in New York, lugging around a backpack full of self-p... Read more

28 Jul 2023

43mins

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Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”

Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”

Colson Whitehead is one of the most lauded writers working today. His 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad” won the Nati... Read more

25 Jul 2023

23mins

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Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director

Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director

In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan relied on a Pulitzer Prize... Read more

21 Jul 2023

27mins

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Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King”

Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King”

“When people think of the crack epidemic, they think of crime,” the journalist Donovan X. Ramsey tells David Remnick. “B... Read more

18 Jul 2023

23mins

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A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race

A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race

No Labels, which pitches itself as a centrist movement to appeal to disaffected voters, has secured a considerable amoun... Read more

14 Jul 2023

27mins

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How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt

How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt

Nearly one in ten Americans owe significant medical debt, a burden that can become crippling as living costs and interes... Read more

11 Jul 2023

14mins

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