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The Pandemic at Three: Who Got It Right?

Different COVID-related scenes are sprouting from an eyeball in the center. The pupil is shaped as a COVID cell.

Can we fix the response to COVID-19 in a country that seems broken? Plus, Stephanie Hsu talks with Jia Tolentino about “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

February 24, 2023

A Year of the War in Ukraine

A young girl drawing a white stork using steam on a window.

The historian Stephen Kotkin and the Ukrainian journalist Sevgil Musaieva on a year of disaster, and the hopes for an end. Plus, Angela Bassett on playing the queen of Wakanda.

February 17, 2023

Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa

Portrait of Salman Rushdie.

In his first interview since a near-fatal knife attack in August, the novelist talks with David Remnick about his recovery, and his new novel.

February 6, 2023

A Conversation with Bonnie Raitt, Plus Public Enemy’s Chuck D

A portrait of the singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt.

After fifty years in music, the singer-songwriter is nominated for four Grammy Awards. And the hip-hop icon talks with Kelefa Sanneh.

February 3, 2023

What Is “Woke”?

A typographic illustration of the word “woke.”

What exactly does “woke” mean, and how did it become so powerful? Plus, the contributing writer Eren Orbey on the custody battles facing mothers of children conceived in rape.

January 27, 2023

The Political Scene

COVID-19 at Three: Who Got the Pandemic Right?

Hands hold a sign reading, “The Political Scene.”

Dhruv Khullar examines what strategies worked to control the virus, and talks to the C.D.C.’s director, Rochelle Walensky, about the issue of misinformation.

February 27, 2023

Is Ukraine the Next Battle in American Politics?

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A year after Russia’s invasion, our political roundtable looks at how the conflict has upended domestic and international politics.

February 24, 2023

What Does It Mean to Be “Indigenous”?

Hands holding up a sign that says “The Political Scene” over a colorful gradient background.

Manvir Singh, a writer and anthropology researcher, discusses a tricky identity term and the role it plays in the struggle for self-determination.

February 22, 2023

A Year of War in Ukraine

Hands hold a sign reading, “The Political Scene.”

David Remnick talks with the historian Stephen Kotkin and the Kyiv-based journalist Sevgil Musaieva about a year of disaster, and what a Ukrainian victory would look like.

February 20, 2023

The Glass Ceiling, Still Intact: Women and Power in Washington

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Our political roundtable discusses Senator Dianne Feinstein’s retirement, Nikki Haley’s announcement, and Vice-President Kamala Harris’s political headwinds.

February 17, 2023

The Writer’s Voice

Allegra Goodman Reads “The Last Grownup”

Illustrated portrait of Allegra Goodman.

The author reads her story from the February 27, 2023, issue of the magazine.

February 20, 2023

Clare Sestanovich Reads “Different People”

Illustrated portrait of Clare Sestanovich

The author reads her story from the January 30, 2023, issue of the magazine.

January 23, 2023

Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

Illustrated portrait of Yiyun Li.

The author reads her story from the January 23, 2023, issue of the magazine.

January 16, 2023

Han Ong Reads “Hammer Attack”

Illustrated portrait of Han Ong

The author reads his story from the January 16, 2023, issue of the magazine.

January 9, 2023

Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Notions of the Sacred”

Illustration of Ayşegül Savaş

The author reads her story from the January 2 & 9, 2023, issue of the magazine.

December 26, 2022

Fiction

Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro

A photograph of the writer Clare Sestanovich wearing a dark shirt.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “The Moons of Jupiter,” which was published in a 1978 issue of the magazine.

February 1, 2023

Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

Black and white portrait of Gary Shteyngart

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “Omakase,” which was published in a 2018 issue of the magazine.

January 2, 2023

Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss

Author Ling Ma wearing a blue patterned garment standing near a stone wall

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “Seeing Ershadi,” which was published in a 2018 issue of the magazine.

December 1, 2022

Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

Jamil Jan Kochai in black and white

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “All Will Be Well,” which was published in a 2019 issue of the magazine.

November 1, 2022

Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

Portrait of Madeleine Thien in 2018.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain,” which was published in a 2004 issue of the magazine.

October 1, 2022

Poetry

Sandra Cisneros Reads José Antonio Rodríguez

Sandra Cisneros

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Shelter,” by José Antonio Rodríguez, and her own poem “Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982.”

September 30, 2022

Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman

Photograph if Diane Seuss.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Ode,” by Jane Huffman, and her own poem “Gertrude Stein.”

August 31, 2022

Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges

Saeed Jones performs at the 2014 Ally Coalition's Talent Show at New World Stages.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart,” by Deborah Digges, and his own poem “A Spell to Banish Grief.”

June 22, 2022

Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo

Poet and author Eileen Myles at Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Without,” by Joy Harjo, and their own poem “Dissolution.”

May 25, 2022

Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli

Black-and-white photograph of Christian Wiman wearing glasses, a button-down shirt, and a vest, and sitting on a couch.

The poet joins Kevin Young to discuss “Far from Kingdoms” and “Outside, in Fact, There Wasn’t Any Change,” by Patrizia Cavalli, translated by Judith Baumel, and also his own poem “Eating Grapes Downward.”

April 6, 2022