For the holiday week, we’re revisiting one of our favorite conversations with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and critic Hilton Als. At... more

Actor Sebastian Stan has built a career out of shapeshifting. This week, he joins us to discuss the process of... more

For the past 50 years, Nikki Giovanni has been one of our preeminent poets. Rest in Power to the legendary... more

It’s been a year. And while we’re not quite done with it (3:15), we wanted to take a moment to... more

To close out the holiday weekend, we're revisiting our conversation with writer, food expert, and television host Padma Lakshmi. At... more

Today, for your holiday week, we’re returning to one of our favorite 2024 conversations with actor Jeff Daniels. Daniels is... more

Actor, writer, and director Jesse Eisenberg’s latest project, A Real Pain, is perhaps his most personal to date. He joins us... more

Since the turn of the century, actor Josh Brolin has had quite a run. From No Country for Old Men... more

It’s been a week. To help us through it, we’ve enlisted The New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon. We... more

On the heels of his latest book The Message, author Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Sam for a conversation in Los Angeles.... more

Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air) has been a fixture in Hollywood for the past fifteen years. She... more

For the past decade, Jason Reynolds has become an inspiring voice in the literary world. He’s a New York Times... more

Today, culture critic Wesley Morris (The New York Times) returns to Talk Easy for a conversation about The Wonder of... more

Since his directorial debut in 2006, Jason Reitman has made the kind of films they say Hollywood doesn’t make anymore.... more

Director Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t just want to make movies. He wants to change them. This was true in 1969... more

Joaquin Phoenix is one of the greatest actors of his generation. For three decades, he’s moved seamlessly between auteur-driven films... more

For actor Myha’la, the role of a lifetime arrived less than a year out of college. “Lightning struck,” she says,... more

For the past couple decades, actor Ken Leung has played scene-stealing characters in films like Rush Hour, Keeping the Faith,... more

To commemorate his 30th birthday, Abbi Jacobson interviews Sam! They talk about Sam's early days in journalism (8:00), his Almost... more

To start, Sam sits with another week in American life, before returning to our timely conversation with Congressman Maxwell Frost... more