83 Episodes

  1. Lessons from “Sesame Street”

    Published: 5/29/2025
  2. The Season for Obsessions

    Published: 5/22/2025
  3. The Grand Spectacle of Pope Week

    Published: 5/15/2025
  4. I Need a Critic: May 2025 Edition

    Published: 5/8/2025
  5. How “Sinners” Revives the Vampire

    Published: 5/1/2025
  6. War Movies: What Are They Good For?

    Published: 4/17/2025
  7. “The Studio” Pokes Fun at Hollywood’s Existential Struggle

    Published: 4/10/2025
  8. Gossip, Then and Now

    Published: 4/3/2025
  9. Joe Rogan, Hasan Piker, and the Art of the Hang

    Published: 3/27/2025
  10. Critics at Large Live: The Right to Get It Wrong

    Published: 3/20/2025
  11. Our Modern Glut of Choice

    Published: 3/13/2025
  12. How “The Pitt” Diagnoses America's Ills

    Published: 3/6/2025
  13. In “Severance,” the Gothic Double Lives On

    Published: 2/27/2025
  14. The Staying Power of the “S.N.L.” Machine

    Published: 2/20/2025
  15. How Romantasy Seduces Its Readers

    Published: 2/13/2025
  16. David Lynch’s Unsolvable Puzzles

    Published: 2/6/2025
  17. The Splendor of Nature, Now Streaming

    Published: 1/30/2025
  18. The New Western Gold Rush

    Published: 1/16/2025
  19. The Elusive Promise of the First Person

    Published: 1/9/2025
  20. Hayao Miyazaki’s Magical Realms

    Published: 12/26/2024

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Critics at Large is a weekly culture podcast from The New Yorker. Every Thursday, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss current obsessions, classic texts they’re revisiting with fresh eyes, and trends that are emerging across books, television, film, and more. The show runs the gamut of the arts and pop culture, with lively, surprising conversations about everything from Salman Rushdie to “The Real Housewives.” Through rigorous analysis and behind-the-scenes insights into The New Yorker’s reporting, the magazine’s critics help listeners make sense of our moment—and how we got here.