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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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

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What Does a Blue Texas Mean for America?
Nov 2026
Pete Buttigieg on the Democrats’ Sweep of Congress, and Where They Go from Here
Nov 2026
Live Event: Movie Night for New Yorker Radio Hour Listeners
Nov 2026
Defending the Midterms from Donald Trump
Nov 2026
Democrats Might Take Back the House. Then What?
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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The Federalist Papers
James Madison
“Where do you see that? In The federalist papers, where do you see it in the Constitutional Convention”
Despite Reports, Reading Is Alive and Well
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
“Kids were reading Middlemarch and do you know how long Middlemarch is”
Gina Hinojosa Aims to Make Texas Blue Again
Oct 2026
Molly Fischer on Waymo, the Driverless Taxi Coming to a City Near You
Oct 2026
Has MAGA Lost Faith in Donald Trump?
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want
Rich Barris
“co-author of a new book called Burn it down. What the polls say Young Americans really want”
The Reporter Nicholas Lemann on California’s Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
“It all starts with Thomas Pickety writing that surprise bestseller on inequality. The book Capital in the Twenty First Century”
Canada’s Plans for Donald Trump
Oct 2026
An American Journalist Imprisoned as a Spy in Russia
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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This Cursed Beautiful Land
Evan Gershkovich
“He details his experience in a new book, This Cursed Beautiful Land”
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Becoming
Michelle Obama
“Michelle Obama's memoir was in there”
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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Arnold Schwarzenegger's too”
Jeremy Strong on Playing Mark Zuckerberg and Other Unpopular Characters
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen
“Because Ibsen had written Ghosts, which he felt like was A deeply personal expression”
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An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen
“uh uh about someone attempting to Tell the truth to a community”
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Do It!
Jerry Rubin
“I remember as a kid reading his classic book, Do It”
Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko”
Sep 2026 · 6 books
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Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee
“Once a corporate lawyer, she quit her job and spent more than ten years working on her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires”
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Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
“And a decade went by before we read Pachenko, a historical epic and truly a phenomenon that was translated into some 35 languages”
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American Hagwan
Min Jin Lee
“And now, after nearly another decade, we finally have a chance to read Min Jinli's third book, American Hagwan”
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
“Because in Korea, my mother had this set of Grimms fairy tales that she bought”
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The Bible
Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T
“the Bible was not in the cards”
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Colette
Judith Thurman
“I maybe you know her, Judah Thurman, my colleague Judah Thurman, and she had published a biography of Colette, and she had done uh Isaac Dinnison and she'd written many essays”
Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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The Art of the Deal
Donald Trump
“The Art of the Deal is the title, of course, of a famous book by Donald Trump”
Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture”
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Birth of a Culture
Grandmaster Flash
“In a new memoir, Birth of a Culture, Grandmaster Flash takes us behind the scenes of hip-hop's earliest days”
Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing”
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Malcolm Gladwell
“The book is called The American Way of Killing, and Malcolm's subject is gun violence”
From In the Dark: The Journey
Sep 2026
John Wilson and “The History of Concrete”
Sep 2026
Colin Kaepernick, Ten Years After Taking a Knee
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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The Perilous Fight
Colin Kaepernick
“In his new memoir, The Perilous Fight, Colin Kaepernick writes that this wasn't even the full extent of the league's efforts to punish him”
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