From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters
Half a century ago, the “Jaws” director created the blueprint for the modern blockbuster. With “Disclosure Day,” he returns to the form he h...
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Hillary Clinton on How Donald Trump Lost the Iran War
The former Secretary of State says that Benjamin Netanyahu and others tried to get her on board with an Iran attack. It was Trump who finall...
The Sports Journalist Pablo Torre Has a Pulitzer, but Still Feels Like the “Turd” in the Pool
The podcaster discusses why investigative reporting in sports is still rare and whether fans even want it, and the problem with private equi...
Rachel Goldberg-Polin on Losing a Son in Gaza
The most visible spokesperson for the families of Israeli hostages in Gaza discusses her memoir, “When We See You Again,” and the unending p...
Seeing the Dark Side of the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II Mission
The commander of Artemis II, Reid Wiseman, on travelling farther from Earth than any humans have gone.
Jack Schlossberg, the Kennedy Running for Congress in New York
The candidate admits that his social-media influence may not look like a “quote-unquote real job” to some people—but argues that it’s what t...
Bonus: David Remnick Takes Calls on the Midterms and the Media
In a guest appearance on WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer Show,” Remnick discusses the Democratic candidates, editorial independence, and his upcoming e...
Colson Whitehead on His Harlem Trilogy
The only living novelist with two Pulitzer Prizes talks about the crooked protagonist of his series—and how David Bowie influenced his appro...
Dan Osborn, the Independent Senate Candidate Who Could Tip Nebraska
David Remnick talks with the veteran, mechanic, and union leader, who is running in a closely watched race against a Republican incumbent in...
A FEMA Insider Says Morale Has Never Been Lower at the Embattled Agency
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 abilit...
The U.F.C. President, Dana White, on Donald Trump: “He’s Not a Racist”
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
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
Three prominent historians discuss a national milestone arriving in the midst of a politically charged conflict over how Americans see the p...
Growing Up with a Mother in Prison
Harriet Clark’s new novel “The Hill” parallels her own childhood years spent visiting the prison where her mother was incarcerated. She talk...
Barack Obama in the Trump Era
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 tim...
The N.B.A. Legend Steve Kerr
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...
How a Trump-Endorsed Republican Could Become California’s Next Governor
In the governor’s race in California, the leading Republican candidate appears to be Steve Hilton, a British-born political consultant and f...
“Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem
Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of a new collection of short stories entitled “ Fat Swim .” Her work questions body image and the suppre...
Why Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers
One of Donald Trump’s few critics within his party is the libertarian-leaning senator Rand Paul, from Kentucky. Paul was recently the sole R...
Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death
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...