New Yorker - Out Loud
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This podcast, published by The New Yorker, is a series of weekly conversations about new items and coverage in The New Yorker Magazine.
| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| The music of Brad Paisley | Kelefa Sanneh on the music of Brad Paisley. | The New Yorker | 00:16:16 |
| The slaughter of songbirds in Europe | Jonathan Franzen on the slaughter of songbirds in Europe. | The New Yorker | 00:14:31 |
| David Ortiz - Boston Red Sox D.H. | Ben McGrath on David Ortiz's career as a designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox. | The New Yorker | 00:10:06 |
| North Korean refugees | Barbara Demick on the experiences of North Korean refugees. | The New Yorker | 00:15:12 |
| Rebecca Mead on Playgrounds | Rebecca Mead speaks about how playground design affects our children's brains. | The New Yorker | 00:13:00 |
| Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer | Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer. | The New Yorker | 00:12:40 |
| The World Cup | Hampton Sides, Daniel Alarcon, and Burkhard Bilger on the World Cup. | The New Yorker | 00:16:55 |
| The 20 Under 40 list | Fiction editors Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon on The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list. | The New Yorker | 00:14:43 |
| The allure of the circus | Joan Acocella on the allure of the circus. | The New Yorker | 00:13:21 |
| The Mexican crime cartel La Familia | William Finnegan on the Mexican crime cartel La Familia. | The New Yorker | 00:16:00 |
| Los Tigres del Norte | Alec Wilkinson on Los Tigres del Norte. | The New Yorker | 00:16:31 |
| Movie music | Alex Ross discusses the history and future of movie music. | The New Yorker | 00:16:53 |
| Adopting a Haitian child | John Seabrook on adopting a Haitian child after the earthquake. | The New Yorker | 00:17:43 |
| Living abroad and returning to America | Peter Hessler and Evan Osnos on living abroad and returning to America. | The New Yorker | 00:14:53 |
| Saul Bellow's Letters | Janis Bellow on the letters of her late husband, Saul Bellow. | The New Yorker | 00:11:06 |
| Lost Turkish recipes | Elif Batuman on rediscovering lost Turkish recipes. | The New Yorker | 00:11:37 |
| Balkan jewel thieves | David Samuels investigates a gang of Balkan jewel thieves. | The New Yorker | 00:13:37 |
| French culinary movement | Adam Gopnik discusses the French culinary movement Le Fooding. | The New Yorker | 00:13:28 |
| Marriage counselling | Jill Lepore on the disturbing origins of marriage counselling. | The New Yorker | 00:11:04 |
| Lacrosse and writing | John McPhee on the sport of lacrosse and (the non-sport of) writing. | The New Yorker | 00:11:36 |
| The music of Esperanza Spalding | John Colapinto on the music of Esperanza Spalding. | The New Yorker | 00:13:44 |
| Marina Abramovic | Judith Thurman on the work of Marina Abramovic. | The New Yorker | 00:14:56 |
| On depression | Louis Menand looks at the contradictory ways we understand and treat depression. | The New Yorker | 00:13:43 |
| George Packer and Susan Orlean on Twitter. | The New Yorker | 00:12:41 | |
| The heroes of the civil-rights era | David Remnick discusses the heroes of the civil-rights era. | The New Yorker | 00:13:51 |
| The gospel singer Tonex | Kelefa Sanneh discusses the gospel singer Tonex. | The New Yorker | 00:16:55 |
| Meghan O'Rourke on grief | The cultural history of mourning and grief. | The New Yorker | 00:13:22 |
| Daniel Mendelsohn on memoirs | Personal confessions, from St. Augustine to James Frey. | The New Yorker | 00:14:15 |
| Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel | Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel in translation. | The New Yorker | 00:11:46 |
| John Cassidy on the Chicago School and the financial crisis | How economists are responding to the financial crisis. | The New Yorker | 00:14:07 |
| David Denby and Richard Brody on their favorite films of the decade | David Denby and Richard Brody discuss their favorite films of the year and the decade. | The New Yorker | 00:15:43 |
| Fen Montaigne on Adelie penguins | Fen Montaigne discusses the five months he spent working alongside the ecologist Bill Fraser, studying the declining Adelie penguin populations in Antarctica. | The New Yorker | 00:12:19 |
| John McWhorter on Louis Armstrong | John McWhorter discusses Louis Armstrong's unchanging musical style, the controversy over his public persona, and the underestimation of his genius. | The New Yorker | 00:13:54 |
| Platon on photographing world leaders | Platon discusses his portfolio of portraits of world leaders. | The New Yorker | 00:09:20 |
| Ariel Levy on Caster Semenya | Ariel Levy discusses the controversy over Caster Semenya's gender, and the implications of her story for sports and society. | The New Yorker | 00:13:40 |
| Calvin Trillin on Poutine | Calvin Trillin and Blake Eskin visit the New York restaurant T Poutine to sample and discuss poutine, a Canadian concoction of French fries, gravy, and cheese curds. | The New Yorker | 00:10:27 |
| Margaret Talbot on nightmares | Margaret Talbot discusses imagery-rehearsal therapy, which helps patients to edit their nightmares into more benign dreams | The New Yorker | 00:12:45 |
| Gaza in Ruins | Lawrence Wright talks to Blake Eskin about the violent conflict between Israel and Hamas and the difficulties he faced in reporting. | The New Yorker | 00:11:45 |
| Drag and Drop | Robert Mankoff and Zachary Kanin discuss Cartoon Kit, the Caption Contest, vampires, and how both guests found their voices as cartoonists. | The New Yorker | 00:10:56 |
| Is Hip-Hop Dead? | Sasha Frere-Jones discusses the future of hip-hop. | The New Yorker | 00:10:30 |
| Bad Behavior | Rebecca Mead and Daniel Zalewski discuss books for children and young adults. | The New Yorker | 00:13:24 |
| Better Living | Jill Lepore talks about the pioneers of scientific management, Frederick Winslow Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. | The New Yorker | 00:13:26 |
| Interiors | Robert Polidori discusses the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. | The New Yorker | 00:09:23 |
| The Accused | Adam Gopnik talks about Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer arrested in 1894 for espionage in France. | The New Yorker | 00:14:18 |
| Fall Preview | John Lahr, Peter Schjeldahl, and Nancy Franklin discuss the fall season's theatre, art, and television highlights. | The New Yorker | 00:09:05 |
| Happiness Delivered | Alexandra Jacobs talks about the online shoe store Zappos. | The New Yorker | 00:12:22 |
| The Willingham Fire | David Grann talks about Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004 for setting a fire that killed his three children. | The New Yorker | 00:13:40 |
| Doubles | Burkhard Bilger talks about Bob and Mike Bryan, identical twins who are champion tennis partners. | The New Yorker | 00:13:43 |
| Imaginary Music | Alex Ross talks about the fictional music of composers in literature. | The New Yorker | 00:13:43 |
| Commodity Rock | John Seabrook talks about the history of the rock-concert industry. | The New Yorker | 00:12:50 |
| Going East | Ian Frazier discusses his road trip across Siberia. | The New Yorker | 00:14:26 |
| Alternative Conservative | Kelefa Sanneh on talk-show host Michael Savage. | The New Yorker | 00:14:29 |
| The Kindness of Strangers | Larissa MacFarquhar on the issues surrounding kidney donation. | The New Yorker | 00:12:02 |
| Bad Habits | Paul Rudnick on Hollywood and nuns. | The New Yorker | 00:12:48 |
| Rules of Engagement | Raffi Khatchadourian on a war crime in Iraq. | The New Yorker | 00:16:09 |
| The Parent Trap | Jill Lepore on parenthood. | The New Yorker | 00:12:29 |
| Book of Love | Lauren Collins on Nora Roberts and the history of the romance novel. | The New Yorker | 00:11:48 |
| Summer Sounds | Sasha Frere-Jones shares his all-time favorite summer jam, and discusses some of the current songs and artists he's excited about. | The New Yorker | 00:10:38 |
| Creative Tension | Louis Menand talks about writing workshops. | The New Yorker | 00:11:53 |
| The Human Factor | Elizabeth Kolbert on the history of mass extinctions. | The New Yorker | 00:11:42 |
| Accounting for the Meltdown | Nick Paumgarten on understanding the financial crisis. | The New Yorker | 00:11:56 |
| Remembering J. G. Ballard | Tom Shone discusses J. G. Ballard's novels and the films they inspired. | The New Yorker | 00:11:52 |
| Rwanda in Recovery | Philip Gourevitch on how a country of murderers and survivors manage to live together. | The New Yorker | 00:12:38 |
| Consecrated Bronze | Elif Batuman on the return of Harvard's bells to Russia. | The New Yorker | 00:11:21 |
| Pets Gone Wild | Burkhard Bilger on Florida’s problem with invasive exotic wildlife. | The New Yorker | 00:10:13 |
| Pimp and Circumstance | Kelefa Sanneh on the comedian Katt Williams. | The New Yorker | 00:12:44 |
| Oranges and Lemons | Peter Schjeldahl on the emotional power of painting. | The New Yorker | 00:10:39 |
| Trash Talk | Evan Osnos on the economic slowdown in China. | The New Yorker | 00:11:07 |
| Show Trial | Keith Gessen discusses the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya. | The New Yorker | 00:13:25 |
| Fatal Attraction | Joan Acocella discusses the enduring appeal of vampires | The New Yorker | 00:13:16 |
| Witty and Brash | Sasha Frere-Jones talks about the music and fame of Lily Allen. | The New Yorker | 00:11:35 |
| Hell on Wheels | Ariel Levy discusses Lamar Van Dyke and the world of lesbian separatists. | The New Yorker | 00:11:35 |
| Found Sentences | Louis Menand talks about the writer Donald Barthelme. | The New Yorker | 00:14:24 |
| The Chinese Dream | Evan Osnos talks about African merchants in China. | The New Yorker | 00:11:29 |
| Moral Arguments | David Remnick interviews the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Tzipi Livni, at Kennedy Airport on January 17th. | The New Yorker | 00:11:50 |
| Doom Boom | Ben McGrath talks about predictions of economic and social collapse, the history of doomsaying, and the future of the American Dream. | The New Yorker | 00:10:20 |
| War of Words | Judith Thurman talks about the importance of Scrabble to her own family, and her adventures playing online. | The New Yorker | 00:09:25 |
| Face Time | Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke discuss photography. | The New Yorker | 00:11:54 |
| Joy Revision | Ariel Levy discusses The Joy of Sex and its relevancy. | The New Yorker | 00:11:36 |
| All in the Family | Zadie Smith writes about comedy and her family. | The New Yorker | 00:10:34 |
| Long Hot Summer | Wendell Steavenson discusses the tensions between Georgia and Russia, and how Georgia has changed since she lived there, in the late nineteen-nineties. | The New Yorker | 00:11:06 |
| Voice of the Left | Larissa MacFarquhar discusses Naomi Klein and her book "The Shock Doctrine." | The New Yorker | 00:09:48 |
| Brutal Honesty | James Wood discusses V. S. Naipaul. | The New Yorker | 00:10:40 |
| Strange Brews | Burkhard Bilger talks about the rise of extreme beer. | The New Yorker | 00:12:15 |
| Moving On | George Packer on what to look for in the next Administration, and whether the Internet's pro-Obama movement will continue to support him as President. | The New Yorker | 00:15:28 |
| A Fine Mess | John Lanchester on why derivatives are like modernist art and what his father, a banker, would have thought of what finance has become. | The New Yorker | 00:10:26 |
| Man and Machine | Bruce McCall on his drawing for the Cartoon Issue, his artistic process, and his career. | The New Yorker | 00:08:14 |
| Playing Politics | Kelefa Sanneh and David Denby on the pleasures and perils of political impersonation. | The New Yorker | 00:11:31 |
| Better Late | Malcolm Gladwell on genius and precocity. | The New Yorker | 00:10:45 |
| Back at the Ranch | Pamela Colloff discusses George W. Bush and Crawford, Texas. | The New Yorker | 00:09:44 |
| Speaking for the Trees | Raffi Khatchadourian explains how an illegally harvested tree in Russia can become a toilet seat in an American home. | The New Yorker | 00:11:29 |
| Home and Away | Platon on photographing members of the military and their families. | The New Yorker | 00:09:48 |
| Elephant in the Room | Adam Gopnik discusses the controversy behind Babar and the books' enduring appeal. | The New Yorker | 00:11:30 |
| Role Call | Ariel Levy on Cindy McCain and the women of the 2008 election. | The New Yorker | 00:15:01 |
| The Face of the Surge | Steve Coll discusses General David Petraeus's duties in Iraq and his role in information operations. | The New Yorker | 00:15:43 |
| Prime Time | The New Yorker's television critic, Nancy Franklin, discusses the Beijing Olympics and why great television is such a rare thing. | The New Yorker | 00:14:27 |
| Getting in Tune | In this week's issue, the composer John Adams writes about his time in San Francisco. Here Adams discusses his influences, the pressures of expectation, and the motivation behind his memoir. | The New Yorker | 00:17:05 |
| Emotional Profit | In this week's issue, David Grann writes about the French con man Frederic Bourdin. Here Grann discusses Bourdin's deceptions in Europe and the United States and whether he has left behind imposture for good. | The New Yorker | 00:15:30 |
| The Dissident | This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about the radio and television host Tavis Smiley. Here Sanneh explains Smiley's wary commentary about Barack Obama and discusses the meaning of Obama's candidacy for African-Americans. | The New Yorker | 00:13:03 |
| The California Dream | In this issue of the magazine, David Samuels writes about medical marijuana and its effect on California's pot industry overall. Here Samuels describes how marijuana is grown and sold, and how he went about reporting the story. | The New Yorker | 00:10:24 |
| Little Trouble | In this week's issue, Jill Lepore writes about the battle over E. B. White's "Stuart Little." Here Jill Lepore and Roger Angell, E. B. White's stepson and an editor at the magazine, talk about E. B. White's writing, Katharine White's columns about children's literature, the librarian Ann Carroll Moore, and the challenge of writing for children. | The New Yorker | 00:15:38 |
| Escalation | Seymour M. Hersh talks about the Bush Administrations secret campaign against Iran. | The New Yorker | 00:07:20 |
| Can't Stop | Atul Gawande explores the science behind itching and describes one extreme case of a woman who couldn't stop scratching. | The New Yorker | 00:16:45 |
| Mouthing Off | This week, Peter J. Boyer writes about the MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. Here Boyer talks about Olbermann's style and how it contrasts with traditional television news. | The New Yorker | 00:14:58 |
| Perfect Pitch | This week, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about Auto-Tune, a pitch-correction software program used in pop music. Here Frere-Jones talks about how Auto-Tune has become a pop-music phenomenon, and demonstrates how it can transform the human voice with the help of the music producer Tom Beaujour. | The New Yorker | 00:10:08 |
| In the Bird's Nest | This week in the magazine, Paul Goldberger writes about the architecture of the Beijing Olympics. Here Goldberger talks about Beijing's standout buildings, and the long-term impact that the Olympic games has on host cities. | The New Yorker | 00:10:52 |
| Soup Course | In this issue of the magazine, Ian Frazier writes about a Chelsea soup kitchen. Here Frazier talks about his experiences running a writers' workshop at the soup kitchen, and the differences between humor writing and reportage. | The New Yorker | 00:14:41 |
| Battle Scars | This week in the magazine, Sue Halpern writes about Virtual Iraq, a treatment for traumatized veterans. Here Halpern talks about how researchers adapted a video game into a simulation of combat experiences, and how soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder react to it. | The New Yorker | 00:12:46 |
| Word Bird | This week in the magazine, Margaret Talbot writes about the scientist Irene Pepperberg and her work with Alex the parrot. Here Talbot talks about what Pepperberg's research reveals about animal language and cognition, with samples of Alex speaking. | The New Yorker | 00:13:20 |
| Human Resources | In this issue of the magazine, William Finnegan writes about young women from Moldova who were forced into prostitution in other countries. Here Finnegan talks about the transnational networks of human trafficking and the efforts to help their victims. | The New Yorker | 00:10:50 |
| The End of the Road | Burkhard Bilger talks about the history of field recording, and introduces samples from the folklorist Art Rosenbaum's recordings. | The New Yorker | 00:14:35 |
| Toy Story | Jonathan Franzen talks about his journey to China. | The New Yorker | 00:13:24 |
| Star-Crossed | Joan Acocella dissects "Dancing with the Stars." | The New Yorker | 00:10:02 |
| Extra Innings | This week, Ben McGrath writes about the retired baseball player Lenny Dykstra and his new magazine, The Players Club. Here, McGrath discusses Dykstra's efforts to broaden the horizons of retired athletes. | The New Yorker | 00:12:40 |
| Take a Card | This week in the magazine, Adam Gopnik writes about modern magic. Here Gopnik talks about the future of magic and compares the magician's art to the writer's craft. | The New Yorker | 00:14:06 |
| Cape Crusader | This week in the magazine, Michael Chabon writes about what superheroes should wear. Here Chabon talks about the difficulties of dressing superheroes off the comic-book page, writing about clothes, and turning books into movies. | The New Yorker | 00:13:31 |
| Confessions | This week in the magazine, in an excerpt from her book, "The Bishop's Daughter," Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. Here Moore talks about her father's public service and private life. | The New Yorker | 00:16:10 |
| Counting Carbon | This week in the magazine and online, Michael Specter writes about the fine line between morality and science in dealing with carbon pollution. Here Specter talks about the possibility of using economics to change behavior and cut emissions. | The New Yorker | 00:15:42 |
| From Page to Stage | George Packer talks about "Betrayed," a play he adapted from his The New Yorker article of the same title. | The New Yorker | 00:13:25 |
| Thoroughly Modern Tilley | The New Yorkers art editor, Francoise Mouly, talks with Matt Dellinger about the nearly three hundred submissions to the Eustace Tilley Contest. | The New Yorker | 00:10:44 |
| Words to Sing | The New Yorker's poetry editor, Paul Muldoon, talks with Matt Dellinger about rock and roll and the state of poetry. | The New Yorker | 00:17:10 |
| Armed and Dangerous | This week in the magazine, Steve Coll writes about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the growing violence in Pakistan. Here Coll talks with Matt Dellinger about the country's insurgency, the influence of the Taliban, and President Musharraf's changing role. | The New Yorker | 00:18:42 |
| What We Know | This week in the magazine, Lawrence Wright writes about Mike McConnell, the director of National Intelligence. Here Wright talks with Matt Dellinger about McConnell's ideas for reform, his views on privacy issues and torture, and the threats the intelligence community may confront in the future. | The New Yorker | 00:18:03 |
| Jury Duty | David Denby talks about the director Otto Preminger and the films of 2007. | The New Yorker | 00:15:00 |
| Salvage City | Burkhard Bilger talks about the mysterious past and future of 211 Pearl Street, the man who tried to save the building, and preserving old New York. | The New Yorker | 00:15:20 |
| Between Pauses | John Lahr talks about what he learned from the playwright Harold Pinter, and how Pinter changed theatre. | The New Yorker | 00:14:41 |
| Gray Matter | Malcolm Gladwell on race and I.Q. | The New Yorker | 00:16:13 |
| Freshman Slump | Nick Paumgarten on Eliot Spitzer's difficult first year as Governor, and whether he's likely to change. | The New Yorker | 00:13:08 |
| In the Genes | Michael Specter talks about ancient, deadly viruses that are being brought back from extinction, what these retroviruses can teach biologists about how humans evolved, and how they may hold the key to conquering AIDS and other diseases. | The New Yorker | 00:10:56 |
| Freak Show | Gahan Wilson, who has been contributing cartoons to the magazine for more than three decades, talks with cartoon editor Robert Mankoff about how he got started, the legacy of Charles Addams, and his singular comic point of view. | The New Yorker | 00:13:21 |
| Friends and Enemies | Jon Lee Anderson talks about how the troop surge is working in the Baghdad suburb of Ghazaliya, and the activities and alliances that have accompanied a reduction in violence. | The New Yorker | 00:16:54 |
| Courtside | Jeffrey Toobin on the recent memoir by the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and on his own book "The Nine." | The New Yorker | 00:12:30 |
| The Green Pirates | Raffi Khatchadourian talks about high-seas vigilante Paul Watson and his thirty-year crusade to save the oceans. | The New Yorker | 00:15:30 |
| All Business | This week in the magazine, The New Yorkers Washington correspondent, Ryan Lizza, writes about the cultures that shaped Mitt Romney and the candidates attempt to cast himself as a conservative. Here, with Blake Eskin, Lizza talks about Romney and the state of his Presidential campaign. | The New Yorker | 00:14:49 |
| Lost Soul | This week in the magazine, The New Yorker's pop-music critic, Sasha Frere-Jones, writes about how indie-rock bands have strayed from the origins of rock and roll. Here Frere-Jones talks with Matt Dellinger about the loss of miscegenation in American music, with clips of relevant songs. | The New Yorker | 00:14:59 |
| Waiting to Secede | This week in the magazine, William Finnegan reports on the push for independence in Kosovo and the upcoming elections there. Here, with Matt Dellinger, Finnegan discusses the recent history of the region and the outlook for an independent Kosovo. | The New Yorker | 00:16:37 |
| Feel the Noise | Alex Ross talks about his new book, his blog, and the New Yorker Festival. | The New Yorker | 00:15:33 |
| His Next Move | David Remnick interviews Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and political activist, about the Putin regime and Russia's future. | The New Yorker | 00:21:48 |
| Downtown Girl | Dana Goodyear talks with Blake Eskin about Kim Hastreiter and the downtown-life-style magazine Paper, and about her own experience, living in Los Angeles. | The New Yorker | 00:15:53 |
| Too Good to Be True | This week, Mark Singer writes about the incredible career of the pianist Joyce Hatto. Here Singer talks with Matt Dellinger about Hatto, with clips of music and archival interviews. | The New Yorker | 00:15:40 |
| Hungry for Home | Jane Kramer talks about her kitchen in Italy and eating with the cookbook writer Claudia Roden. | The New Yorker | 00:15:40 |
| What You Sow | John Seabrook talks about the worlds first global seed bank and the importance of biological diversity. | The New Yorker | 00:13:13 |
| The Dragon-Slayer | Peter J. Boyer talks about the unique appeal of Rudy Giuliani. | The New Yorker | 00:14:20 |
| Fade to Black | David Denby talks about the work of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. | The New Yorker | 00:12:30 |
| Bearish on Bees | Elizabeth Kolbert talks about her back-yard hive and the fate of the honeybee. | The New Yorker | 00:08:30 |
| Hard to Believe | David Remnick discusses Avraham Burg's inflammatory comments and the current mood of Israel. | The New Yorker | 00:12:18 |
| Beyond the Red Mosque | William Dalrymple discusses Pakistan's uncertain future. | The New Yorker | 00:11:07 |
| Afghan Ambush | Jon Lee Anderson talks about a battle with the Taliban in the poppy fields of Afghanistan | The New Yorker | 00:11:35 |
| A Wealthy Suitor | Ken Auletta discusses Rupert Murdoch's WSJ takeover bid. | The New Yorker | 00:12:14 |
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