Actor and Director Anna Kendrick: Life Imitates Art

This Conversation with Author Jason Reynolds is a Gift

Wesley Morris Returns with ‘The Wonder of Stevie’

Director Jason Reitman’s Love Letter to ‘Saturday Night’

Francis Ford Coppola Stays in the Picture

The Joaquin Phoenix Interview

Why Myha’la (‘Industry’) is Playing the Long Game

Actor Ken Leung (‘Industry’) Enters a New Season

Abbi Jacobson Interviews Sam

The First Gen Z Congressman’s Fight for Gun Reform

Filmmaker Lee Daniels (‘The Deliverance’) Finds His Light

Director Steven Soderbergh: Scene by Scene

We Are So Back (at the Movies) with Sean Fennessey (‘The Big Picture’)

A Tea with Amelia Dimoldenberg of Chicken Shop Date

Author Vinson Cunningham on our ‘Great Expectations’ for 2024

The Vision of Novelist Zadie Smith (‘The Fraud’)

Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Her ‘Long Island Compromise’

Tom Hanks: A Retrospective

Talk Easy Presents Author Isabel Allende on ‘Wiser Than Me’

Live from Aspen with Performer Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach (‘The Bear’) Returns to the Kitchen

A Post-Debate Talk with Democratic Strategist James Carville

How Playwright Annie Baker Made the Movie of the Summer

A Father’s Day Special (with Ethan Hawke)

Director Richard Linklater’s Moments in Time

Maya Hawke (‘Stranger Things’) Writes through Chaos

Comedian Ilana Glazer (‘Broad City’) is Mothering

A Love Letter to Comedy with Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello (‘Hacks’)

A Mother’s Day Special with Pamela Adlon (‘Better Things’)

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael’s Self-Portrait

Nick Offerman (‘Civil War’) Brings a Message of Hope

Poet Rupi Kaur: 10 Years of 'Milk and Honey'

The Stories of Actor Jeff Daniels

Actor and Director Dev Patel is a Leading Man

Director M. Night Shyamalan: A Talk from 'Development Hell'

Comedian Ramy Youssef Returns with ‘More Feelings’

Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

How Do We Think About the 2024 Election?

Oscar Sunday with Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’)

From the Oscar Archives: Cate Blanchett

Dispatches from a Gaza Hospital (with Dr. Seema Jilani)

A Cup of Coffee with Actor Kyle MacLachlan (‘Twin Peaks’)

Lily Gladstone (‘Killers of the Flower Moon’) is Making History

Quinta Brunson: ‘Abbott Elementary’ is Back in Session

Filmmaker Lulu Wang Creates In Between Two Worlds

Oscar Nominations with Wesley Morris (The New York Times)

Dan Levy (‘Schitt’s Creek’) Goes His Own Way

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s New Hollywood Framework

Actor Michelle Williams Works from a ‘Place of Peace’

Talk Easy’s 2023 Mixtape

Bradley Cooper as ‘Maestro’ from The New Yorker Radio Hour

The New Yorker Editor David Remnick: 'There's No Time to Despair'

The Transformations of Actor Willem Dafoe

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Fights for the Protection of Journalists

Actor and Director Benny Safdie Does It All

The Futurist Vision of Actor and Filmmaker Brit Marling

The Ziwe Interview

Marina Abramović Creates Art from Pain

The Rise and Fall of Crypto Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (with Writer Michael Lewis)

Singer-Songwriter Weyes Blood Gives Us ‘Something to Believe’

A Human Conversation with Writer George Saunders

Author and Critic Hua Hsu (The New Yorker) ‘Stays True’

The Transformations of Novelist Zadie Smith

Writer Sandra Cisneros Finds the Poetry of the World

Legend David Byrne (‘Stop Making Sense’) is Still Burning Down the House

The State of Hollywood with Matt Belloni (‘The Town’)

Jazz Singer Laufey is Bringing the Past to the Present

The Summer in Review (with Culture Critic Sam Sanders)

Tracing 'The Steps' of Musician Alana Haim

The Era(s) of Musician Este Haim

Abbi Jacobson is in a League of Her Own

Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’) Can Hear the Music

Beto O'Rourke and the Border

Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Threads History and the Afrofuture

The Revolution Will Be Televised (with 'The Bear' Writer Alex O'Keefe)

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz: The Pleasure of Seeing

At Home with Writer Joyce Carol Oates

The Summer of Our Discontent with Reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times)

The Making of Tom Hanks

Every Second Counts with Actor Jon Bernthal (‘The Bear’)

The Era of Actor Michael Shannon

Model and Activist Geena Rocero Lives Her Story

A Father’s Day Special with Sarah Silverman

A Sunday Matinee with Actor Oscar Isaac

Comedian and Actor Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story

The Elements of Singer-Songwriter Arlo Parks

Director Nicole Holofcener’s Art Imitates Life

Bill Hader Says Goodbye to ‘Barry’

Actor Alan Ruck’s Road to ‘Succession’

Mother’s Day with ‘Top Chef’ Padma Lakshmi

Introducing So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin

Jay Jordan Was Incarcerated At 18. Now, He’s Transforming the Criminal Justice System.

All the Women in Actor Betty Gilpin’s Brain

Carol Burnett Turns 90

Alison Roman’s Imperfect Approach to Cooking

A Portrait of Actor Michelle Williams

Actor Steven Yeun Tells a New Story

How Author Jenny Odell Discovered a Life Beyond the Clock

Actor Bob Odenkirk: The King of (Dark) Comedy

The Stories of Writer Margaret Atwood

Live from New York with Author Min Jin Lee

Oscar Sunday with Actor Ke Huy Quan

Actor Ram Charan and the RRRevolution

Actor and Director Natasha Lyonne Plays Her Hand

Mr. Frost Goes to Washington

The Year of Actor Pedro Pascal

The Makings of Writer Hilton Als

Actor and Activist Nazanin Nour Wants to Tell a New Story of Iran

Opening Night with Artist Kehinde Wiley

50 Years After Roe v. Wade: A Conversation With a Texas Abortion Provider

The Road to Actor Ke Huy Quan’s Second Act

Actor Claire Foy Observes the Unobserved

The 2022 Talk Easy Holiday Special

Nobel Peace Prize Journalist Maria Ressa Holds the Line

Actor Lake Bell: 'The Voice is a Roadmap of Your History'

An Interlude with Musician Dev Hynes

Performer Kumail Nanjiani: A New Act

Actor Jonathan Majors: ‘Everything Happens To Me’

An Afternoon at Judd Apatow’s Office

Journalist Kara Swisher Believes in the Future

Writer George Saunders, Moment by Moment

The Homecoming of Director James Gray

Comedian Nick Kroll is Going Through Changes

The Transformation of Actor Eddie Redmayne

How Congresswoman Cori Bush Reimagines Politics

Back to School with Quinta Brunson (‘Abbott Elementary’)

Writer Sandra Cisneros is a ‘Woman Without Shame’

Understanding the Midterms with Reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times)

Comedian Billy Eichner, Street to Screen

Storytelling with ‘Atlanta’ Director Hiro Murai

The Aftermath of 9/11

The Airline Workers' Movement is Taking Off

‘Dreaming Back’ with Novelist Joyce Carol Oates

Abbi Jacobson: A League of Her Own

A New Era of Musician Joey Bada$$

Coming of Age with Lena Dunham

Ethan Hawke, Here and Then

At Home with Comedian John Early

Disaster is Not Our Destiny. Neither is Democracy.

Jenny Slate in 2022

Through the Woods with Nick Offerman

Margo Jefferson: We Must ‘Go On’

The Supreme Court Conversation We’re Not Having

David Sedaris: A Life On and Off the Page

Actor Jon Bernthal: Leading Man

Performer Meg Stalter Heals Through Comedy

What Will It Take To Change? (with Stacey Abrams)

Author Jennifer Egan: Writing Through Time

Pedro Pascal: A Life of Dreaming

Mother’s Day with Minnie Driver

Bill Hader Finds His Story

Poet Rupi Kaur is Here to Stay

Play It Again: Ocean Vuong

Love Songs with Syd (The Internet, Odd Future)

Let’s Talk About Sex (At the Movies)

Anita Hill is Getting Even. We Believe Her.

Oscar Sunday with Questlove

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

The Pieces of David Byrne

Author Margaret Atwood’s Burning Questions

Stacey Abrams’ Guide to Preserving Democracy

W. Kamau Bell: How Do We Talk About Cosby?

A Texas Principal Said Black Lives Matter. His Community Didn’t Agree.

How Glory Edim (Well-Read Black Girl) Gives Space

A Tea with Cate Blanchett

Questlove: A Celebration of Soul

Actor Tessa Thompson is Boundless

Ezra Klein (The New York Times) On The Year Ahead

Alana Haim: 13 Going on 30

Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham: How Did We Get Here?

Sunday on the Podcast with George Saunders

A Talk Easy Holiday Special

How We Continue (with Noam Chomsky)

Michael Tubbs: The Deeper the Roots

Play It Again: Author Jhumpa Lahiri

Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Path to Home

A Double Feature: Vicky Krieps and Melanie Lynskey

A Sunday Sermon with Janaya Future Khan

Comedian Jeff Garlin is Young at Heart

Nick Offerman: Out of the Woods

How to Reconnect to Earth (with Author Richard Powers)

Actor Noomi Rapace’s Homecoming

Poet Nikki Giovanni: Life is a Good Idea

Julie Delpy: Just Passing Through

A Portrait of Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola

The Aftermath of 9/11

Play It Again: Holland Taylor

Lorde: Through the Years

The Makings of Actor Poorna Jagannathan

Off the Court with Candace Parker

Dr. Jha on the State of the Pandemic

Director Brian De Palma: A Retrospective

A Zola Roundtable with Janicza Bravo and Joi McMillon

On Air with Larry Wilmore

Vince Staples by Vince Staples

Play It Again: Ts Madison

Steven Soderbergh: Making Movies

Uzo Aduba: The Road is Good

A Phone Call with Author Dave Eggers

Sleater-Kinney's Path of Wellness

On Earth with Ocean Vuong

One on One with CNN's Jake Tapper

Anna Sale: Death, Sex & Money

The Michael Lewis Story

Mother’s Day with Writer Jhumpa Lahiri

The Freedom Riders Turn 60 (with Dr. Bernard Lafayette)

Joel Meyerowitz: A Life in Photos

Kevin Abstract: New Light, New Machine

Songs For You

Kathrine Switzer: Marathon Woman

The Ts Madison Experience

We Turn Five

Nathaniel Rich: Stories from a World Remade

Sunday School with Author Anne Lamott

Black Futures with Kimberly Drew and J Wortham

The Golden Age of Amanda Seyfried

Winnie Byanyima's Lifelong Fight for Equality

At 74, Actor Glynn Turman Keeps On

Rest and Rebuild with Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Alone but Never Lonely: Johnny Mathis at 85

Short Stories with George Saunders

Dr. Ashish Jha Sees the COVID Finish Line

Julián Castro: In 2021, How Do We Prosper?

A Talk Easy Holiday Special: Goodbye 2020

A Talk Easy Holiday Special (pt. 1)

Janaya Future Khan: The Work of Being Alive

The AIDS Memorial: Stories of Love, Loss, and Remembrance

Fran Lebowitz on Vinyl

Matthew McConaughey: Just Keep Livin

How Do We Heal? (with Resmaa Menakem)

Election Week with Noam Chomsky

Health & Science with Dr. Jha and Justin Rosenstein

A Case for Human Decency (by Rutger Bregman)

Antwaun Sargent: Young, Gifted and Black

State of the Union with Cornel West

Radha Blank: The Forty-Year-Old Version

Rep. Ilhan Omar: What Can America Look Like?

Claudia Rankine: Just Us

Me and You and Miranda July

Mythmaking with Jena Malone

Play It Again: Gloria Steinem

Carrie Coon / Cat Solen

Janelle Monáe, Past and Present

Brittany Howard is a “Living Miracle”

The Carol Burnett Show

Tyler Mitchell's “Black Utopia”

Unbreakable Tituss Burgess

Leah Remini vs. The Church of Scientology

Norman Lear Turns 98

Jenny Slate in 2020

Malcolm Gladwell Returns

Hannah Gadsby

Fran Lebowitz

Run the Jewels

Bonus Episode: Documentarians Bill and Turner Ross!

Hasan Minhaj

A COVID-19 Checkup with Dr. Ashish Jha

Bonus Episode: Radnor & Lee

Episode 176 - Dolores Huerta

Episode 175 - Holland Taylor

Episode 174 - Hank Willis Thomas

Episode 173 - Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker) On the Death of George Floyd

Bonus Episode: Directors Terence Nance (Random Acts of Flyness) & Malik Vitthal (Body Cam)

Episode 172 - Brooke Gladstone (On the Media, NPR)

Episode 171 - Ted Danson

A Mother's Day Special

Episode 170 - Roxane Gay

Introducing: “The Last Dance Aftershow”

Episode 169 - Elizabeth Gilbert

Episode 168 - W. Kamau Bell, Four Years Later

Episode 167 - Noam Chomsky (plus Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard Global Health Institute)

Episode 166 - Beto O'Rourke

Episode 165 - Naomi Klein

Episode 164 - Juliette Lewis

Episode 163 - Dr. Ashish Jha (Director of Harvard Global Health Institute)

Episode 162 - Sam Waterston

Episode 161 - Alison Pill

Episode 160 - Haley Bennett

Episode 159 - Morgan Parker

A Talk Easy Holiday Special!

Episode 158 - Gloria Steinem

Episode 157 - Laura Dern

Episode 156 - Tracy Letts

Episode 155 - Errol Morris

Episode 154 - Alma Har'el

Episode 153 - Randall Park

Episode 152 - Edward Norton

Play It Again: Robert Forster (1941-2019)

Episode 151 - Gary Gulman

Episode 150 - Sam

Bonus Episode: Trace Lysette

Episode 149 - Scott Aukerman

Episode 148 - Karley Sciortino

Episode 147 - Peter Bogdanovich

Episode 146 - Justin Simien

Episode 145 - Whitney Cummings

Talk Easy Throwback: Mom

Talk Easy Throwback: Alan Alda

Talk Easy Throwback: John Cho

Talk Easy Throwback: Lena Waithe

Talk Easy Throwback: Malcolm Gladwell

Talk Easy Throwback: Norman Lear

Episode 144 - Ron Perlman

Episode 143 - Jeff Garlin

Episode 142 - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Episode 141 - Michael Kelly

Episode 140 - Jacki Weaver

Episode 138 - Pam Grier

Episode 137 - Werner Herzog

Episode 136 - Wyatt Cenac

Episode 135 - Chaz Ebert

Episode 134 - Live From Ebertfest! (With Richard Roeper, Rita Coburn Whack, And More)

Episode 133 - Tayarisha Poe

Episode 132 - Sean Kingston

Episode 131 - Alex Ross Perry

Episode 130 - Bill Pullman

Episode 129 - Brit Marling

Episode 128 - Vincent D'Onofrio

Episode 127 - Mary Holland

Episode 126 - Keith David

Episode 125 - Matt Walsh

Episode 124 - Dulé Hill

Episode 123 - Minhal Baig

Episode 122 - Jeremy O. Harris

Episode 121 - Jacqueline Bisset

Episode 120 - Chris Elliott

Episode 119 - Patrick Wang

Episode 118 - Zoë Ligon

Episode 117 - Viggo Mortensen

Episode 116 - Jonny Sun

Episode 115 - Adam Bhala Lough

Episode 114 - DeRay Mckesson

Episode 113 - Paul Dano

Episode 112 - Nathaniel Rich

Episode 111 - Kamasi Washington

Episode 110 - Judy Greer

Episode 109 - Amma Asante

Episode 107 - Colman Domingo

Episode 106 - Ione Skye

Episode 105 - Jerrika Hinton

Episode 104 - Sheila Vand

Episode 103 - Lauren Miller Rogen

Episode 102 - Alan Alda

Episode 101 - Rob Reiner

Episode 100 - Dad

Episode 99 - John Cho

Episode 98 - Chas Allen (Real-life subject of "American Animals")

Episode 97 - Dawn Porter

Episode 96 - Touré

Episode 95 - Nina Collins

Episode 94 - Gillian Jacobs

Episode 93 - Laia Costa

Episode 92 - Julie Dash

Episode 91 - Kogonada

Episode 90 - Chloé Zhao

Episode 89 - The Lost Episode

Episode 88 - Michael Imperioli

Episode 87 - Jay Duplass

Episode 86 - Josh Radnor

Episode 85 - Alia Shawkat

A Talk Easy Holiday Special

Episode 83 - Sean Baker

Episode 82 - Lois Smith

Episode 81 - Paul F. Tompkins

Episode 80 - Rory Scovel

Episode 79 - Joachim Trier

Episode 78 - Noël Wells

Episode 77 - Miguel Arteta

Episode 76 - Shea Serrano

Episode 75 - Jen Yamato

Episode 74 - Jon Daly

Episode 73 - Willem Dafoe

Episode 72 - Erica Chidi Cohen

Episode 71 - Giancarlo Esposito

Episode 70 - Heather Havrilesky

Episode 69 - Norman Lear

Episode 68 - Fred Melamed

Episode 67 - Amber Navran

Episode 66 - Rostam Batmanglij

Episode 65 - Doreen St. Félix

Episode 64 - Robert Downey Sr.

Episode 63 - Jelani Cobb

Episode 62 - Jenny Slate

Episode 61 - A.O. Scott

Episode 60 - Malcolm Gladwell

Episode 59 - Patricia Lockwood

Episode 58 - Lena Waithe

Episode 57 - Sudan Archives (Stones Throw Series)

Episode 56 - Mild High Club (Stones Throw Series)

Episode 55 - J Rocc (Stones Throw Series)

Episode 53 - Corinne Bailey Rae

Episode 52 - Martin Starr

Episode 51 - Anna Sale

Episode 50 - Mom

Episode 49 - James Gray

Episode 48 - Andy Daly

Episode 47 - Alice Lowe

Live From SXSW: Janicza Bravo

Episode 45 - Brenton Wood

Episode 44 - Philip Baker Hall

Episode 43 - Andrea Silenzi

Episode 42 - Roger Ross Williams

Episode 41 - Andy Greenwald

Episode 40 - Kate Berlant

Episode 39 - Noël Wells

Episode 38 - Brett Gelman

Bonus Christmas Special 2016!

Episode 37 - Reggie Watts

Episode 36 - Jay Caspian Kang

Episode 35 - Matt Zoller Seitz

Episode 34 - Mackenzie Davis

Episode 33 - Zoe Kazan

Episode 32 - Max Linsky

Episode 31 - Zazie Beetz

Episode 30 - W. Kamau Bell Returns!

Episode 29 - Margaret Brown

Episode 28 - Kelly Reichardt

Episode 27 - Mndsgn

Episode 26 - Esperanza Spalding

Episode 25 - Steve James

Episode 24 - Michael Phillips

Episode 23 - Lauren Lapkus

Episode 22 - Ben Schwartz

Episode 21 - Melanie Lynskey

Episode 20 - Charlene deGuzman

Episode 19 - Ira Sachs

Episode 18 - Kate Micucci

Episode 17 - Alan Arkin

Episode 16 - Donnie Trumpet

Episode 15 - Eric André

Episode 14 - Alex Gibney

Episode 13 - Alissa Wilkinson

Bonus Episode - Robert Forster

Episode 12 - Robert Forster

Episode 11 - Amy Nicholson

Episode 10 - Sherman Alexie

Episode 9 - Spencer Haywood

Episode 8 - Mac DeMarco

Episode 7 - The Ross Brothers

Episode 6 - Lamorne Morris

Episode 5 - Wesley Morris

Episode 4 - David Oyelowo

Episode 3 - Amy Seimetz

Episode 2 - W. Kamau Bell

Episode 1 - Don Cheadle

Episode 0 - Announcement