The New Yorker Radio Hour

Mining for rare-earth metals has severe environmental consequences. Speaking with Elizabeth Kolbert, the journalist Vince Beiser says that the U.S. needs more of it.

Munro kept quiet about the sexual abuse of her daughter by her partner—but wrote about the family trauma in fiction.

The songwriter and performer on her journey from pop music to theatre, with a live performance of “Gravity.”

The culture editor picks three of the best erotic thrillers after being inspired to study the genre by his recent Profile of the director of the new film, “Babygirl.”

The actress talks with Michael Schulman about her time on “As the World Turns,” starring in Pedro Almodóvar’s first film in English, and why she hates when people call actors “brave.”

The food guru explains why she hated dinnertime growing up, and how she learned to love it. And we dig into the craft of reading an audiobook with a master of the form.

In 1979, a minister received a telegram from Iranian militants who had taken hostages in the American Embassy, inviting him to perform Christmas services. Two days later, he was inside.

The actor talks with Adam Howard about playing a vampire hunter in Robert Eggers’s remake of “Nosferatu.” After hundreds of vampire movies, Eggers “wanted him to be scary again.”

The historian discusses events that have weakened supposed allies of the Palestinians, and the idea of settler colonialism that has taken hold on the left. Critic Adam Kirsch responds.

The actress stars as Rose in a Broadway revival of “Gypsy.” She shares that, throughout her career, some people have been upset when she plays characters conceived for white actors.

The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer on the rhetoric and the reality of deporting “millions”—and why immigrants in the country legally are likely to be targeted.

The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.

The New Yorker’s critic on holiday-season films that he’s excited about. “These are not upbeat movies,” Chang admits, “but they are among the most thrilling that I’ve seen this year.”

The writer explains how she took up quilting to help her cope with terrible news, and the science behind why it works.

“The Thanksgiving Play” is a comedy on an awkward subject, and a sendup of liberal good intentions. The staff writer Vinson Cunningham speaks with the playwright Larissa FastHorse.

The Supreme Court Justice talks with David Remnick about the decline in public trust and questions about the Court’s ethics code, and how Justices get along in a very partisan era.

The actress discusses starring in the new film adaptation of “The Piano Lesson,” Wilson’s play about the Great Migration and a family torn apart by inheritance.