New Yorker: Outloud
A weekly conversation about what's new in The New Yorker.
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The New Yorker's television critic, Nancy Franklin, discusses the Beijing ...
The New Yorker's television critic, Nancy Franklin, discusses the Beijing Olympics and why great television is such a rare thing.
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John Adams on San Francisco
In this week's issue, the composer John Adams writes about ...
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.
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David Grann on Frederic Bourdin
In this week's issue, David Grann writes about the French ...
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.
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Kelefa Sanneh on Tavis Smiley
This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about the ...
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.
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David Samuels on medical marijuana
In this issue of the magazine, David Samuels writes about ...
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.
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Jill Lepore and Roger Angell on E. B. White
In this week's issue, Jill Lepore writes about the battle ...
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.
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Seymour M. Hersh on Iran
Seymour M. Hersh talks about the Bush Administrations secret campaign ...
Seymour M. Hersh talks about the Bush Administrations secret campaign against Iran.
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Atul Gawande on itching
Atul Gawande explores the science behind itching and describes one ...
Atul Gawande explores the science behind itching and describes one extreme case of a woman who couldn't stop scratching.
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Peter J. Boyer on Keith Olbermann
This week, Peter J. Boyer writes about the MSNBC host ...
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.
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Perfect Pitch
This week, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about Auto-Tune, a pitch-correction software ...
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.
