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Critics at Large | The New Yorker
Critics at Large | The New Yorker
The New Yorker

Critics at Large is a weekly culture podcast from The New Yorker. Every Thursday, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and... more

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Episodes

War Movies: What Are They Good For?

For nearly as long as we’ve been waging war, we’ve sought ways to chronicle it. “Warfare,” a new movie co-directed... more

17 Apr 2025 · 45 minutes
“The Studio” Pokes Fun at Hollywood’s Existential Struggle

The tension between art and commerce is a tale as old as time, and perhaps the most dramatic clashes in... more

10 Apr 2025 · 49 minutes
Gossip, Then and Now

Gossip, an essential human pastime, is full of contradictions. It has the potential to be as destructive to its subjects... more

03 Apr 2025 · 43 minutes
Joe Rogan, Hasan Piker, and the Art of the Hang

The first episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” released in 2009, consisted mostly of its host smoking weed, cracking jokes,... more

27 Mar 2025 · 48 minutes
Critics at Large Live: The Right to Get It Wrong

In 1939, reviewing the beloved M-G-M classic “The Wizard of Oz” for The New Yorker, the critic Russell Maloney declared... more

20 Mar 2025 · 39 minutes
Our Modern Glut of Choice

For many of us, daily life is defined by a near-constant stream of decisions, from what to buy on Amazon... more

13 Mar 2025 · 43 minutes
How “The Pitt” Diagnoses America's Ills

“The Pitt,” which recently began streaming on Max, spans a single shift in the life of a doctor at an... more

06 Mar 2025 · 45 minutes
In “Severance,” the Gothic Double Lives On

“Severance” is an office drama with a twist: the central characters have undergone a procedure to separate their work selves... more

27 Feb 2025 · 46 minutes
The Staying Power of the “S.N.L.” Machine

The first episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which aired in October of 1975, was a loose, scrappy affair. The sketches... more

20 Feb 2025 · 46 minutes
How Romantasy Seduces Its Readers

A few years back, novels classed as “romantasy”—a portmanteau of “romance” and “fantasy”—might have seemed destined to attract only niche... more

13 Feb 2025 · 49 minutes
Critics at Large | The New Yorker
War Movies: What Are They Good For?
Critics at Large | The New Yorker