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December 21, 2022 - Sarah Larson offers a roundup of the best podcasts of 2022, including “Rumble Strip,” “Heavyweight,” “Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery,” and “Bone Valley.”
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Best Podcasts of 2022 - The New York Times
December 9, 2022 - In this fascinating and heroically researched seven-part series, she pursues it from the campus of Princeton before World War II, to Meiji-era Japan, to the Civil Rights demonstrations of the 1960s, among other sartorially significant ports of call. Trufelman, a former producer and reporter for the podcast “99% Invisible,” has enough passion and verve to stitch even unruly threads of race, sex and class into place.
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November 28, 2023 - A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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Best List From the New Yorker
Join more than 12,000 people - get our free, weekly newsletter, with interviews from the business of podcasting, the latest news and data. ... This is an archived page from 2022. Find out more · The New Yorker is out with its top ten podcasts of 2022. They are not familiar names to most podcast ...
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The podcast “Noble,” about severe malpractice at a Georgia crematorium, shows that even the most shocking of horror stories can be sensitively told.
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The Retrievals’ Second Season Will Upset YouAfter an excellent first run, the podcast returns to continue its exploration of how medical institutions routinely let women down. ... Getting Fired From Marvel Helped James Gunn Feel Love ‘for the First Time’“I actually think it’s the best day of my life.”
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Listen & subscribe to all of The New Yorker’s podcasts, including The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Political Scene, The Writer’s Voice, and more.
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May 10, 2023 - In the Dark is a two-time Peabody Award winner and, in 2019, became the first podcast to win a George Polk Award, one of the top honors in journalism. The program has also received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. ...
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December 3, 2024 - The Economist continued its streak of impressive limited-series podcasts with this year’s “The Modi Raj,” about Narendra Modi, which, like its 2022 series “The Prince,” about Xi Jinping, paints a vivid portrait of a world power through a meticulously reported biography of its strongman leader.
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The Best Podcasts of 2025 | The New Yorker
2 weeks ago - Sarah Larson picks her favorite podcasts of 2025, including “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man,” “Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer,” and “Spotlight: Snitch City.”
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Best New Yorker Podcasts (2025)
On Mondays, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, presents conversations and feature stories about current events. On Wednesdays, the senior editor Tyler Foggatt goes deep on a consequential political story via far-reaching interviews with staff writers and outside experts. And, on Fridays, the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos disc ... … continue reading ... In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016.
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New Yorker: Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2023 - Year-End Lists
December 8, 2024 - Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by The New Yorker · [see also 2024 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018] Think Twice: Michael Jackson · Next Year in Moscow · The Kids of Rutherford County · Unreformed: the Story ...
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New Podcast Reviews—Podcast Department | The New Yorker
Jad Abumrad’s new podcast, “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man,” shows how one musician created both a genre and a way of challenging those in power.
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r/literature on Reddit: Best episodes of the New Yorker Fiction podcast?
June 7, 2024 -
I've recently found this podcast, which is convenient for me in many ways that a traditional book isn't. I'm also working on a writing project myself (historical fiction), and I think it's healthy for me to be exposed to good, serious writing.
However, some of the navel-gazing lit-fic bores me to tears. For an example, I listened to the first 40 minutes of "The Dinner Party" by Joshua Ferris and knew I'd never want to write like that, no many how many awards it might win.
I'm not listening to the New Yorker for stuff in the vein of Twilight or Eragon or The Da Vinci Code, but amongst those 200 or so episodes, I'm working if there's something more my style - so here's a little about my tastes:
I read a fair amount but I'm not a college lit professor. I like stuff that's funny (Pride and Prejudice, Catch-22), pacy (I liked the episode "The Lottery", and perhaps wouldn't have if it took 20 more minutes to chew the scenery), or has beautiful world-building (Dracula, Brave New World). I like "Imperium" and "Pompeii" by Robert Harris. I like prestige TV (Mad Men, The Wire, Shogun, Peaky Blinders). I like film noir (Laura, Double Indemnity).
I dislike stuff like "Saturday" by Ian McEwan, "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" by Roddy Doyle, "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.
So basically, I want episodes that ... aren't so self consciously lit-fic. Stories that have the energy and popular appeal to make good TV episodes. Stuff on the sharp dialogue, clever plotting, and rich scene-setting side of good writing, rather than the philosophical rumination and oblique prose side (what I call "Booker Prize literature"). I'm sure that has its virtues too, but it's just not for me.
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Rushdie reading Barthleme in 2011, Nicole Krauss reading Calvino in 2021, and Saunders reading Paley and Barry Hannah in 2014 were all gear episodes. I wouldn’t describe them as TV episode-esque, but lots of energy, humor, and surprises through most of those stories.
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Also, for humor: the episode where "Leg" by Steven Polansky is read. Same goes for Sheila Heti "My life is a joke". For literature that is heightened but doesn't feel conceited, the one where Pet Milk by Stuart Dybek is read. For good drama, anything anyone ever read by Raymond Carver. "Where I'm calling from" is a personal favorite.
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r/podcasts on Reddit: New Yorker recommends best podcasts of 2024
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God this list sounds a bit miserable to me, to be honest. I need at least some comedy or lightness in my podcasts. But I also got so burnt out during the pandemic on dark stories that I might be a bit biased against them now.
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10. “Elon’s Spies” Speaking of retribution, “Elon’s Spies,” from the British company Tortoise Media, delivers in a mere three episodes a wealth of detailed investigation about our proposed co-czar of government efficiency, all of it involving Elon Musk’s use of private investigators to help him harass his perceived enemies. The host, Alexi Mostrous, illuminates the “pedo guy” saga, in which Musk publicly insulted a diver who rescued a youth soccer team from an underwater cave, and who’d scoffed at Musk’s rescue plan, involving a tiny submarine; an apparent public-humiliation gambit targeting Musk’s former girlfriend Amber Heard; and even more stalkerish intimidation of a Tesla-plant whistle-blower. The sound design indulges in some corniness—the powerful man-child’s spiteful machinations don’t need underscoring with agitated piano—but mostly avoids it. A bonus episode, released after the election, contemplates the future. 9. “Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the N.Y.P.D.” In his Peabody Award-winning “Uncivil” podcast, from 2017, Chenjerai Kumanyika, a journalism professor now at N.Y.U., brought to life, with his co-creator Jack Hitt, extraordinary lesser-known stories from the Civil War and before, such as Ona Judge’s escape from enslavement at George Washington’s house and Harriet Tubman’s Combahee River raid. “Empire City,” about the origins of the New York City Police Department, takes a similarly eye-opening historical tack and adds some of Kumanyika’s own story. The first episode begins with his young daughter saying that the police “keep us safe”; proceeds to Kumanyika watching 1964 N.Y.P.D. surveillance video of his father, the late civil-rights organizer Makaza Kumanyika, who led a peaceful protest against police brutality; and then backs up to tell the story of the Kidnapping Club, a group of antebellum New York police constables who pursued and abducted Black locals and sold them into slavery in the South. The time jumps can lead us to expect a more comprehensive history than the series aims to provide, but Kumanyika, a consummate researcher and warmly personable host, nimbly brings it all together. 8. “The Modi Raj” The Economist continued its streak of impressive limited-series podcasts with this year’s “The Modi Raj,” about Narendra Modi, which, like its 2022 series “The Prince,” about Xi Jinping, paints a vivid portrait of a world power through a meticulously reported biography of its strongman leader. The Economist business writer Avantika Chilkoti, a savvy and amiable host, starts by travelling to Vadnagar, Gujarat, where Modi famously began life as a chai wallah’s son. As a boy, we learn, Modi wasn’t a listener, enjoyed giving out orders, did some acting (“If you did not give him the lead role, he would not be part of it”), and, at age eight, became involved with the Hindu-nationalist group the R.S.S. Tracing Modi’s rise, via the R.S.S., to prominence in the right-wing B.J.P. Party and ultimately the Prime Ministership, Chilkoti talks to everyone from Modi’s longtime tailor (“He notices if buttonholes are hand-sewn”) to survivors of the deadly 2002 Gujarat riots (in which Modi and the R.S.S. may have been complicit) to a political consultant who recalls beaming Modi’s hologram to rural campaign rallies in 2014. “The chatter in the village is that there is a leader who is going to appear in thin air,” the consultant tells Chilkoti—and the hologram made Modi seem “omnipresent and capable of doing the unthinkable.” The story’s details are edifyingly specific, its themes grimly universal. 7. “Embedded: Supermajority” The Nashville-based journalist Meribah Knight, maker of the excellent series “The Promise” and “The Kids of Rutherford County,” this year brought us inside the volatile Tennessee state house of 2023, which made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Knight embedded herself with three Covenant Moms—conservative Christian mothers of students at the Covenant School, where a mass shooting had recently killed six people—as they attempted to influence their own party to pass gun-control measures and then experienced one rude awakening after another. Deep-red Tennessee has a Republican supermajority in the legislature, and we listen as legislators expel their Democratic peers for protesting; invent and enforce new rules against free expression for people in the gallery, including the moms; and welcome a visitor from a right-wing Hungarian think tank that often supports Viktor Orbán. Throughout, the sounds of everyone’s voices, constituents and politicians alike, convey as much as their words do, and the intimacy enhances the maddening implications. 6. “Hysterical” Dan Taberski (“Running from Cops,” “Surviving Y2K,” “9/12”) returned this year with “Hysterical,” about a sudden and mysterious outbreak of a Tourette’s-like condition in upstate New York, mostly among high-school girls, in 2011. The premise might make us wary—notes of the Salem Witch Trials, talk of hysteria—but, as ever, Taberski and his team know what they’re doing. “Hysterical relates its strange story with sensitivity, humor, and fascinating characters, and its essential questions—What is this? Why is it happening? How can we stop it?—broaden and deepen as the series proceeds. Each new theory that Taberski investigates, from the personal to the environmental, seems to nearly crack the case, but surprises create cliffhangers throughout. We learn about similarly mysterious mind-body afflictions, from Havana Syndrome to fentanyl-contact paranoia, and by the end we’ve been unnerved, enlightened, and reassured. Taberski is a sharp and friendly narrator, unafraid to joke with us, skilled at drawing out interviewees and putting them at ease, and adept at zooming in and out as the story requires. Like all of his work, it connects the personal and the philosophical and makes it look easy.
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5 Best The New Yorker Podcasts to Listen to in 2025
2 weeks ago - Best The New Yorker Podcasts to Listen to ⋅ 1. The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker ⋅ 2. The New Yorker: Fiction ⋅ 3. The New Yorker Radio Hour
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Best The New Yorker Podcasts (2025)
On Mondays, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, presents conversations and feature stories about current events. On Wednesdays, the senior editor Tyler Foggatt goes deep on a consequential political story via far-reaching interviews with staff writers and outside experts. And, on Fridays, the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos disc ... … continue reading ... In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016.
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The Best Podcasts of 2023 | The New Yorker
November 27, 2023 - The Economist has become a reliably great source of thoughtfully produced, expertly reported podcasts, including “Drum Tower,” about China, last year’s “The Prince,” about Xi Jinping, and “Next Year in Moscow,” about Russians trying to cope with what their country has become in the era of Putin’s war crimes. Our host is The Economist’s Arkady Ostrovsky, who travels to Istanbul, Europe, “and the fringes of the old Soviet empire” to talk to Russians who left when Putin’s attacks on Ukraine began, in 2022.
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2 weeks ago - Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2025, as published by The New Yorker · [see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018] Fela Kuti: Fear No Man · Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer · Spotlight: Snitch City · A Tiny Plot · Camp Swamp Road ·