The New Yorker Radio Hour

Epizode

• Colson Whitehead on His Harlem Trilogy 02.06.2026 23min

  The only living novelist with two Pulitzer Prizes talks about the crooked protagonist of his series—and how David Bowie influenced his approach to fiction.
• Dan Osborn, the Independent Senate Candidate Who Could Tip Nebraska 29.05.2026 26min

  David Remnick talks with the veteran, mechanic, and union leader, who is running in a closely watched race against a Republican incumbent in a deep-red state.
• A FEMA Insider Says Morale Has Never Been Lower at the Embattled Agency 26.05.2026 25min

  An employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency on the use of rescue aid as a political weapon, and how it might affect FEMA’s ability to respond to the next emergency.
• The U.F.C. President, Dana White, on Donald Trump: “He’s Not a Racist” 22.05.2026 49min

  White discusses his relationship with the President, the upcoming match on the White House South Lawn, and why he thinks he’s above politics.
• America at 250: A View from the Streets 19.05.2026 18min

  We asked Americans what they’re thinking and feeling about the nation’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary.
• The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore 15.05.2026 32min

  Three prominent historians discuss a national milestone arriving in the midst of a politically charged conflict over how Americans see the past. It’s a “goat rodeo,” Lepore says.
• Growing Up with a Mother in Prison 12.05.2026 24min

  Harriet Clark’s new novel “The Hill” parallels her own childhood years spent visiting the prison where her mother was incarcerated. She talks with Rachel Aviv.
• Barack Obama in the Trump Era 08.05.2026 26min

  The reporter Peter Slevin asks the former President the question on many Democrats’ minds: Where is he, and why isn’t he doing more in a time of crisis?
• The N.B.A. Legend Steve Kerr 05.05.2026 28min

  The Golden State Warriors’ coach on playing with Michael Jordan in his prime, what he’s learned about leadership, and how outspoken is too outspoken in the league.
• How a Trump-Endorsed Republican Could Become California’s Next Governor 01.05.2026 22min

  Steve Hilton is leading in the polls in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by twenty per cent. Could he win in blue California?
• “Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem 28.04.2026 19min

  The novelist Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her short-story collection “Fat Swim,” and the fatphobia she finds in contemporary fiction, with the critic Jennifer Wilson.
• Why Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers 24.04.2026 29min

  The libertarian-leaning Republican discusses his effort to restrain the President’s actions in Iran, and how he would campaign against other G.O.P. Presidential candidates in 2028.
• Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death 21.04.2026 19min

  The New Yorker staff writer, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a teen came to impersonate an oligarch’s son.
• A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel 17.04.2026 39min

  The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.
• Anna Wintour as Vogue Icon 14.04.2026 38min

  Vogue is almost synonymous with its longtime editor, Anna Wintour. She talks with David Remnick about choosing a successor, and wearing Prada to the première of “The Devil Wears Prada.”
• Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI 10.04.2026 49min

  Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech.
• Pick Three: Spring Sports News 07.04.2026 14min

  The New Yorker staff writer Louisa Thomas on the season’s biggest basketball stories.
• How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine 03.04.2026 36min

  Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, explains how Russia is supporting Iran with drone technology, and how the worldwide shock to oil prices is helping Russia.
• A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice 31.03.2026 22min

  Troy Edwards tells Ruth Marcus why he left his senior position in the government, and what his father-in-law, James Comey, had to do with it.
• John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling 27.03.2026 28min

  The actor, who stars in the new Broadway production “Giant,” about Dahl’s fraught legacy, discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist.