New Yorker: Outloud
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Nicholas Thompson talks with Mattathias Schwartz about a massacre in Jamaica.
Last week, the Jamaican drug trafficker Christopher Coke was sentenced ...
Last week, the Jamaican drug trafficker Christopher Coke was sentenced in U.S. federal court to twenty-three years in prison. In 2010, at least seventy-three people died in Kingston in the operation to capture and extradite Coke. Mattathias Schwartz wrote about the raid in the December 6, 2011, issue of the magazine, and has blogged about the recent developments in the story. Here Nicholas Thompson talks with Schwartz about the massacre and the U.S. governments role in the operation that led to the killings. Also, Jill Lepore answers questions about the Supreme Court.
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Steve Coll explains to John Cassidy and Nicholas Thompson why he’s no longer their Facebook friend.
In the wake of Facebook's troubled I.P.O., Steve Coll quit ...
In the wake of Facebook's troubled I.P.O., Steve Coll quit Facebook. On this week's New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Coll talks with John Cassidy and Nicholas Thompson about how Facebook's goals of community and transparency aren't reflected in the way it does business.
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Deborah Treisman talks with Jennifer Egan about her story “Black Box.”
This week's issue of the magazine is the Science Fiction ...
This week's issue of the magazine is the Science Fiction issue. Here Deborah Treisman talks with Jennifer Egan about her story "Black Box," written as a series of Tweets. And Jonathan Lethem, Junot Diaz, and Sam Lipsyte share their science-fiction thoughts and book recommendations.
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Arthur Krystal, Deborah Treisman, and Sasha Weiss discuss genre versus literary fiction.
This week in the magazine, Arthur Krystal looks at the ...
This week in the magazine, Arthur Krystal looks at the porous boundaries between pulp, genre, and literary fiction. Here Krystal talks with Deborah Treisman and Sasha Weiss about how seriously we should take fiction that aims only to entertain. Plus, the cultural guilty pleasures of an avant-garde poet and two New Yorker staff writers.
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James Wood and Richard Brody on the film and literature of the Holocaust.
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Peter ...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Peter Hessler explains how not to get picked in a police lineup, and James Wood and Richard Brody consider the literature and cinema of the Holocaust, from Laurent Binet's "HHhH" to Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah."
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Michael Specter and Elizabeth Kolbert discuss whether we can invent a solution to global warming without destroying the world.
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Nick ...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Nick Paumgarten describes a future where drones deliver tacos, and Michael Specter and Elizabeth Kolbert consider geoengineering solutions to climate change.
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Ariel Levy and Kelefa Sanneh talk about women’s Olympic boxing.
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Rick ...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Rick Moody explains "The Unreliable Global Positioning System," and Ariel Levy and Kelefa Sanneh talk about the cultural complications of women's boxing.
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Ken Auletta on Stanford and the tech companies that surround it.
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Ian ...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Ian McEwan talks with Deborah Treisman about spy recruitment in nineteen-seventies England, and Ken Auletta talks with Nicholas Thompson about the strange symbiotic relationship between Silicon Valley and Stanford University.
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Jerome Groopman on promising new cancer therapies.
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Alex ...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Alex Ross recalls the man who knew everybody, and Jerome Groopman explains the promise of a new way to use the immune system to fight cancer.
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Lauren Collins and Burkhard Bilger on reporting in distant lands.
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Patty ...
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Patty Marx talks couch-surfing, John Michaud looks back at some of the great travel writing in The New Yorker archive, and Nicholas Thompson talks with Lauren Collins and Burkhard Bilger about some of their far-flung correspondence.
