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The New Yorker Radio Hour
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
The New Yorker editor Susan Morrison on Lorne Michaels, the producer who still runs “S.N.L.” with an iron hand. Plus, Tina Fey reads The New Yorker’s review of the show from Season 1.
A growing body of literature champions the idea that rest is revolutionary. Is slowing down the answer to what ails us, or just the latest trend we’re being sold?
Britney Spears Tells Her Horror Story
In her new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” the pop princess traces the arc of her career. The result is not so much a gushy tell-all as a twisted fairy tale.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race
No Labels is obscure but well funded. Could it have an outsized impact on the election? Plus, the journalist Donovan Ramsey on his chronicle of the crack-cocaine epidemic.
We’re in a special class of people who always have a book going—I know it. We’re people who really think about the big ideas.
Learning to Love the Bear That Attacked You
In a new memoir, the anthropologist Nastassja Martin writes about her strange bond with the animal that maimed her.
In “Life and Death in Rikers Island,” the former chief medical officer for the city’s Correctional Health Services recounts a culture of brutality and abuse.
Scientists Uncover Literary Fingerprints
By Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn
December 17, 2009