The entertainment agent and executive talks with David Remnick about his dealings with the President, Elon Musk, and Mohammed bin Salman, and operating within “shades of gray.”
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Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko”
Min Jin Lee gave up climbing the ladder of conventional success by quitting her corporate-law job and then spending more than a decade working on her début novel, “Free Food for Millionaires.” Ten years later, in 2017, she published “Pachinko,” a historical epic that was translat ... Show More
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Sep 18
Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing”
Malcolm Gladwell, a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, often uses ideas from the social sciences and epidemiology and applies them to surprising topics. But his new book tackles an issue that’s in the headlines every day. The book is called “The American Way of Killing,” an ... Show More
24m 11s
Sep 2025
Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th Birthday Book
<p>For months, President Trump has tried to dismiss questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, notably denying that he had been the author of a lewd birthday message to the financier and sex offender.</p><p>On Monday, Congress released the message — and many more like ... Show More
24m 53s
Jul 2025
How Trump Lost Control of the Epstein Narrative
<p>For the past two weeks, President Trump has been trying and failing to get his supporters to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein.</p><p>David Enrich, a deputy investigations editor for The New York Times, and Shawn McCreesh, a Times White House correspondent, explain why MAGA w ... Show More
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