podcast
by Deborah Treisman and The New Yorker
Every month a writer picks a story by someone else from The New Yorker's archive (Colm Tóibín on Tobias Wolff, Mohsin Hamid on Haruki Murakami, Miriam Toews on Raymond Carver), reads it aloud, then talks through how it works with fiction editor Deborah Treisman. A great story plus a working writer's close reading, every time.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
January 12, 2026
Dan Carlin's Alexander the Great series reaches its third installment, Quanta reports on weakening dark energy, and a Philosophize This! episode on Dostoevsky's demons.
July 20, 2026
Dynomight on the coming end of pseudonymity, Brian Potter scores 239 laws against their promises, and a Sears-catalog rewrite of American growth.