The New Yorker Radio Hour

Patricia Marx goes foraging in Central Park, and Kathryn Schulz recommends a country music album, a poet, and a movie about magicians.  

Ben Taub shares his reporting on a group that’s building a war-crimes case against Bashar al-Assad, and a war-crimes expert explains how to run a fair tribunal.  

Senator Franken and David Remnick discuss the health-care vote, the Russia investigation, and how his sense of humor has been a liability    

David Remnick and Ryan Lizza listen back to the phone call from Anthony Scaramucci that ended his brief term as White House communications director.    

An Irish writer explores friendship and adultery in the digital age in her début novel. 

 Country superstar George Strait’s search for the next hit, and Lawrence Wright’s exploration of how Texas is our future. 

In 1967, a rookie reporter’s eyewitness account of the futility of the Vietnam War shocked readers.    

Maggie Haberman and Donald Trump go way back.  

Dr. Phil Davies, a country doctor in England, says that he owns Mars. What if he’s right?

An Obamacare veteran keeps fighting the fight—even into the White House. And Jill Lepore explains the century-long battle for universal coverage.