The New Yorker Radio Hour

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Episodes 1,037
Avg. Duration 26m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.2 (5,908)
Since Oct 2015
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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

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Seeing the Dark Side of the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II Mission

Jun 09, 2026 24m

In April, the four crew members of NASA’s Artemis II mission were the first humans to ever glimpse something that cannot be seen from Earth—the so-called dark side of the moon. The mission’s…

Jack Schlossberg, the Kennedy Running for Congress in New York

Jun 05, 2026 27m

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, was one of a number of Kennedy family members who spoke out against the policies and the character of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Schlossberg became a…

Bonus: David Remnick Takes Calls on the Midterms and the Media

Jun 04, 2026 44m

In a guest appearance on WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer Show,” David Remnick, who hosts the New Yorker Radio Hour, discusses the Democratic Party’s identity crisis and the candidates vying in the midterm…

Colson Whitehead on His Harlem Trilogy

Jun 02, 2026 23m

Colson Whitehead is one the few novelists, and the only still alive, to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction—for “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys.” Whitehead’s protagonist in the Harlem…

Dan Osborn, the Independent Senate Candidate Who Could Tip Nebraska

May 29, 2026 26m

As control of the Senate hangs in the balance, many eyes are on Dan Osborn, of Nebraska. He’s a dream candidate for the Democrats: a mechanic in the food-processing industry, a former president of…

A FEMA Insider Says Morale Has Never Been Lower at the Embattled Agency

May 26, 2026 25m

The Trump Administration has made little secret of its desire to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency and give states the responsibility to respond to all manner of natural disasters on…

The U.F.C. President, Dana White, on Donald Trump: “He’s Not a Racist”

May 22, 2026 49m

There will be a variety of celebrations to honor America’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary this year. Much of it is to be expected: fireworks, red, white, and blue lights, even a military…

America at 250: A View from the Streets

May 19, 2026 18m

The staff writer and historian Jill Lepore is an admirer of the Federal Writers’ Project, and the man-on-the-street form of documentary it helped to pioneer. This type of journalism, she thinks, is…

The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore

May 15, 2026 32m

The two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence arrives during intense disputes about American history, as the Trump Administration demands a more glorifying view of the…

Growing Up with a Mother in Prison

May 12, 2026 24m

Harriet Clark’s novel, “The Hill,” is one of the most anticipated works of fiction of the year. It’s a story of a girl growing up visiting her mother, who is serving a life sentence in prison for a…

Barack Obama in the Trump Era

May 08, 2026 26m

The contributing writer Peter Slevin met with Barack Obama at the new Obama Presidential Center, which opens next month, in Chicago, and asked him the question on a lot of Democrats’ minds: Where is…

The N.B.A. Legend Steve Kerr

May 05, 2026 28m

Most basketball fans first took note of Steve Kerr when he played for the Chicago Bulls in the nineteen-nineties, but it’s through coaching that Kerr really came to the fore in the N.B.A. For more…

How a Trump-Endorsed Republican Could Become California’s Next Governor

May 01, 2026 22m

In the governor’s race in California, the leading Republican candidate appears to be Steve Hilton, a British-born political consultant and former Fox News contributor. Hilton has been endorsed by…

“Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem

Apr 28, 2026 19m

Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of a new collection of short stories entitled “Fat Swim.” Her work questions body image and the suppression of fatness in contemporary culture; Eisenberg recently…

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

Apr 24, 2026 29m

One of Donald Trump’s few critics within his party is the libertarian-leaning senator Rand Paul, from Kentucky. Paul was recently the sole Republican to vote in favor of restricting the President’s…

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

Apr 21, 2026 19m

When Patrick Radden Keefe was living in London while shooting the TV adaptation of his book “Say Nothing,” he heard about a teen-ager who fell from a luxurious apartment tower in mysterious…

A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel

Apr 17, 2026 39m

Omer Bartov is an Israeli professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. He grew up in a Zionist home and served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, but he has long been…

Anna Wintour as Vogue Icon

Apr 14, 2026 38m

Anna Wintour graces the cover of Vogue’s May issue alongside her theatrical double: Meryl Streep in the role of Miranda Priestly, from “The Devil Wears Prada,” whose much-anticipated sequel comes out…

Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI

Apr 10, 2026 49m

At the end of February, OpenAI’s C.E.O., Sam Altman, made headlines by swiftly cutting a deal with the Pentagon for his company to replace Anthropic, which had balked at the Trump Administration’s…

Pick Three: Spring Sports News

Apr 07, 2026 14m

The New Yorker staff writer Louisa Thomas, who writes the Sporting Scene column, talks with David Remnick about the biggest basketball stories this season: how LeBron James embraced a new late-career…

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