Video & Audio

Rochelle P. Walensky talks about her leadership mantras that focus on adversity, resilience, people, trust, and communication.

Jefferson Cowie offers a history of populism in America -- on both the left and right of the body politic

Ken Krimstein explains graphic narrative, drawing New Yorker cartoons, and the function of story and form.

Ayad Akhtar and Daniel Kehlmann discuss the intersection of art, technology, and the human experience.

Anne Applebaum and George Packer with The Atlantic's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, on what lies ahead for America’s democratic experiment.

Agnes Mueller looks at contemporary German–Jewish fiction by young post-Holocaust-memory writers.

The former longtime editor of "Foreign Affairs" surveys impending challenges to European security and explores how they can be addressed.

Adam Shatz is at work on a sweeping chronicle of the postwar Black music avant-garde.

Mona El-Naggar’s Academy project, “Behind the Byline,” offers an authoritative account of modern women in the Arab world.

Cultural theorist Sianne Ngai is writing a book of essays that explores the risks of recreating and lingering in “wrong” ways of thinking.