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• Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko”

  September 29, 2026 · 29 min

  Min Jin Lee gave up climbing the ladder of conventional success by quitting her corporate-law job and then spending more than a decade working on her début novel, “Free Food for Millionaires.” Ten years later, in 2017, she published…

• Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics

  September 25, 2026 · 31 min

  Ari Emanuel is the executive chairman of W.M.E., one of the biggest talent agencies in Hollywood. He has overseen the careers of Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, Meghan Markle, Martin Scorsese, Dwayne (the Rock) Johnson, and Donald Trump. His…

• Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture”

  September 22, 2026 · 34 min

  Grandmaster Flash has been an innovator in the art of d.j.’ing since he was practically a child growing up in the Bronx. As a young man named Joseph Saddler, he spent his days trying to figure out how to make the drum breaks in his…

• Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing”

  September 18, 2026 · 24 min

  Malcolm Gladwell, a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, often uses ideas from the social sciences and epidemiology and applies them to surprising topics. But his new book tackles an issue that’s in the headlines every day. The book is…

• From In the Dark: The Journey

  September 16, 2026 · 54 min

  A woman who acts as a surrogate, carrying a child for someone else, is said to be going on a “journey.” Kayla Elliott started her surrogacy journey at the age of twenty-six. She gave birth to a baby girl for a wealthy couple living in a…

• John Wilson and “The History of Concrete”

  September 15, 2026 · 20 min

  John Wilson is a documentary filmmaker, a comedian, and a contemporary philosopher. On his hit HBO show, “How To with John Wilson,” he wandered around New York City filming everyday life, pontificating, and asking strangers questions…

• Colin Kaepernick, Ten Years After Taking a Knee

  September 11, 2026 · 49 min

  Colin Kaepernick had a stunning rise as an N.F.L. quarterback after becoming a full-time starter, in 2012. He was a legitimate dual threat—as effective running the ball as he was throwing it. And, to this day, Kaepernick still holds the…

• Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Americans in a Time of Peril

  September 8, 2026 · 23 min

  For more than thirty years, Edwidge Danticat has written about the experiences of Haitians and Haitian Americans in fiction, memoir, and journalism. In The New Yorker, she has covered the ways in which the Trump Administration has targeted…