All Seasons

Season 2021

• S2021E01 Julián Castro: In 2021, How Do We Prosper?

  • January 31, 2021

• S2021E02 Dr. Ashish Jha Sees the COVID Finish Line

  • February 3, 2021

• S2021E03 Short Stories with George Saunders

  • February 7, 2021

• S2021E04 Alone but Never Lonely: Johnny Mathis at 85

  • February 14, 2021

• S2021E05 Rest and Rebuild with Brittany Packnett Cunningham

  • February 21, 2021

• S2021E06 At 74, Actor Glynn Turman Keeps On

  • February 28, 2021

• S2021E07 Winnie Byanyima's Lifelong Fight for Equality

  • March 7, 2021

• S2021E08 The Golden Age of Amanda Seyfried

  • March 14, 2021

• S2021E09 Black Futures with Kimberly Drew and J Wortham

  • March 21, 2021

• S2021E10 Sunday School with Author Anne Lamott

  • March 28, 2021

• S2021E11 Nathaniel Rich: Stories from a World Remade

  • March 31, 2021

• S2021E12 We Turn Five

  • April 4, 2021

• S2021E13 The Ts Madison Experience

  • April 11, 2021

• S2021E14 Kathrine Switzer: Marathon Woman

  • April 15, 2021

• S2021E15 Songs For You

  • April 18, 2021

• S2021E16 Kevin Abstract: New Light, New Machine

  • April 21, 2021

• S2021E17 Joel Meyerowitz: A Life in Photos

  • April 25, 2021

• S2021E18 The Freedom Riders Turn 60 (with Dr. Bernard Lafayette)

  • May 2, 2021

Season 2023

• S2023E01 Actor Claire Foy Observes the Unobserved

  • January 8, 2023

• S2023E02 The Road to Actor Ke Huy Quan’s Second Act

  • January 15, 2023

• S2023E03 50 Years After Roe v. Wade: A Conversation With a Texas Abortion Provider

  • January 22, 2023

• S2023E04 Opening Night with Artist Kehinde Wiley

  • January 29, 2023

• S2023E05 Actor and Activist Nazanin Nour Wants to Tell a New Story of Iran

  • February 5, 2023

• S2023E06 The Makings of Writer Hilton Als

  • February 12, 2023

• S2023E07 The Year of Actor Pedro Pascal

  • February 19, 2023

• S2023E08 Mr. Frost Goes to Washington

  • February 26, 2023

• S2023E09 Actor and Director Natasha Lyonne Plays Her Hand

  • March 5, 2023

• S2023E10 Actor Ram Charan and the RRRevolution

  • March 8, 2023

• S2023E11 Oscar Sunday with Actor Ke Huy Quan

  • March 12, 2023

• S2023E12 Live from New York with Author Min Jin Lee

  • March 19, 2023

• S2023E13 The Stories of Writer Margaret Atwood

  • March 22, 2023

• S2023E14 Actor Bob Odenkirk: The King of (Dark) Comedy

  • March 26, 2023

• S2023E15 How Author Jenny Odell Discovered a Life Beyond the Clock

  • April 2, 2023

• S2023E16 Actor Steven Yeun Tells a New Story

  • April 9, 2023

• S2023E17 A Portrait of Actor Michelle Williams

  • April 16, 2023

• S2023E18 Alison Roman’s Imperfect Approach to Cooking

  • April 23, 2023

• S2023E19 Carol Burnett Turns 90

  • April 26, 2023

• S2023E20 All the Women in Actor Betty Gilpin’s Brain

  • April 30, 2023

• S2023E21 Jay Jordan Was Incarcerated At 18. Now, He’s Transforming the Criminal Justice System.

  • May 7, 2023

• S2023E22 Introducing So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin

  • May 10, 2023

• S2023E23 Mother’s Day with ‘Top Chef’ Padma Lakshmi

  • May 14, 2023

• S2023E24 Actor Alan Ruck’s Road to ‘Succession’

  • May 21, 2023

• S2023E25 Bill Hader Says Goodbye to ‘Barry’

  • May 24, 2023

• S2023E26 Director Nicole Holofcener’s Art Imitates Life

  • May 28, 2023

• S2023E27 The Elements of Singer-Songwriter Arlo Parks

  • May 31, 2023

• S2023E28 Comedian and Actor Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story

  • June 4, 2023

• S2023E29 A Sunday Matinee with Actor Oscar Isaac

  • June 11, 2023

• S2023E30 A Father’s Day Special with Sarah Silverman

  • June 18, 2023

• S2023E31 Model and Activist Geena Rocero Lives Her Story

  • June 21, 2023

• S2023E32 The Era of Actor Michael Shannon

  • June 25, 2023

• S2023E33 Every Second Counts with Actor Jon Bernthal (‘The Bear’)

  • July 2, 2023

• S2023E34 The Making of Tom Hanks

  • July 9, 2023

• S2023E35 The Summer of Our Discontent with Reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times)

  • July 16, 2023

• S2023E36 At Home with Writer Joyce Carol Oates

  • July 19, 2023

• S2023E37 Photographer Joel Meyerowitz: The Pleasure of Seeing

  • July 23, 2023

• S2023E38 The Revolution Will Be Televised (with 'The Bear' Writer Alex O'Keefe)

  • July 30, 2023

• S2023E39 Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Threads History and the Afrofuture

  • August 6, 2023

• S2023E40 Beto O'Rourke and the Border

  • August 13, 2023

• S2023E41 Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’) Can Hear the Music

  • August 20, 2023

• S2023E42 Abbi Jacobson is in a League of Her Own

  • August 23, 2023

• S2023E43 The Era(s) of Musician Este Haim

  • August 27, 2023

• S2023E44 Tracing 'The Steps' of Musician Alana Haim

  • August 30, 2023

• S2023E45 The Summer in Review (with Culture Critic Sam Sanders)

  • September 3, 2023

• S2023E46 Jazz Singer Laufey is Bringing the Past to the Present

  • September 10, 2023

• S2023E47 The State of Hollywood with Matt Belloni (‘The Town’)

  • September 17, 2023

• S2023E48 Legend David Byrne (‘Stop Making Sense’) is Still Burning Down the House

  • September 24, 2023

• S2023E49 Writer Sandra Cisneros Finds the Poetry of the World

  • September 27, 2023

• S2023E50 The Transformations of Novelist Zadie Smith

  • October 1, 2023

Season 2024

• S2024E01 Actor Michelle Williams Works from a ‘Place of Peace’

  • January 7, 2024

• S2024E02 Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s New Hollywood Framework

  • January 14, 2024

• S2024E03 Dan Levy (‘Schitt’s Creek’) Goes His Own Way

  • January 21, 2024

• S2024E04 Oscar Nominations with Wesley Morris (The New York Times)

  • January 28, 2024

• S2024E05 Filmmaker Lulu Wang Creates In Between Two Worlds

  • February 4, 2024

• S2024E06 Quinta Brunson: ‘Abbott Elementary’ is Back in Session

  • February 11, 2024

• S2024E07 Lily Gladstone (‘Killers of the Flower Moon’) is Making History

  • February 18, 2024

• S2024E08 A Cup of Coffee with Actor Kyle MacLachlan (‘Twin Peaks’)

  • February 25, 2024

• S2024E09 Dispatches from a Gaza Hospital (with Dr. Seema Jilani)

  • March 3, 2024

• S2024E10 From the Oscar Archives: Cate Blanchett

  • March 6, 2024

• S2024E11 Oscar Sunday with Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’)

  • March 10, 2024

• S2024E12 How Do We Think About the 2024 Election?

  • March 17, 2024

• S2024E13 Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

  • March 20, 2024

• S2024E14 Comedian Ramy Youssef Returns with ‘More Feelings’

  • March 24, 2024

• S2024E15 Director M. Night Shyamalan: A Talk from 'Development Hell'

  • March 31, 2024

• S2024E16 Actor and Director Dev Patel is a Leading Man

  • April 7, 2024

• S2024E17 The Stories of Actor Jeff Daniels

  • April 14, 2024

• S2024E18 Poet Rupi Kaur: 10 Years of 'Milk and Honey'

  • April 21, 2024

• S2024E19 Nick Offerman (‘Civil War’) Brings a Message of Hope

  • April 28, 2024

• S2024E20 Comedian Jerrod Carmichael’s Self-Portrait

  • May 5, 2024

• S2024E21 A Mother’s Day Special with Pamela Adlon (‘Better Things’)

  • May 12, 2024

• S2024E22 A Love Letter to Comedy with Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello (‘Hacks’)

  • May 19, 2024

• S2024E23 Comedian Ilana Glazer (‘Broad City’) is Mothering

  • May 26, 2024

• S2024E24 Maya Hawke (‘Stranger Things’) Writes through Chaos

  • June 2, 2024

• S2024E25 Director Richard Linklater’s Moments in Time

  • June 9, 2024

• S2024E26 A Father’s Day Special (with Ethan Hawke)

  • June 16, 2024

• S2024E27 How Playwright Annie Baker Made the Movie of the Summer

  • June 23, 2024

• S2024E28 A Post-Debate Talk with Democratic Strategist James Carville

  • June 30, 2024

• S2024E29 Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach (‘The Bear’) Returns to the Kitchen

  • July 7, 2024

• S2024E30 Live from Aspen with Performer Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  • July 14, 2024

• S2024E31 Talk Easy Presents Author Isabel Allende on ‘Wiser Than Me’

  • July 21, 2024

• S2024E32 Tom Hanks: A Retrospective

  • July 24, 2024

• S2024E33 Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Her ‘Long Island Compromise’

  • July 28, 2024

• S2024E34 The Vision of Novelist Zadie Smith (‘The Fraud’)

  • August 4, 2024

• S2024E35 Author Vinson Cunningham on our ‘Great Expectations’ for 2024

  • August 11, 2024

• S2024E36 A Tea with Amelia Dimoldenberg of Chicken Shop Date

  • August 18, 2024

• S2024E37 We Are So Back (at the Movies) with Sean Fennessey (‘The Big Picture’)

  • August 25, 2024

• S2024E38 Director Steven Soderbergh: Scene by Scene

  • August 29, 2024

• S2024E39 Filmmaker Lee Daniels (‘The Deliverance’) Finds His Light

  • September 1, 2024

• S2024E40 The First Gen Z Congressman’s Fight for Gun Reform

  • September 8, 2024

• S2024E41 Abbi Jacobson Interviews Sam

  • September 15, 2024

Season 2025

• S2025E01 A New Year with Writer Jia Tolentino (‘Trick Mirror’)

  • January 5, 2025

• S2025E02 A Hopeful Climate Conversation with Richard Powers

  • January 12, 2025

• S2025E03 The Week That Changed Los Angeles

  • January 19, 2025

• S2025E04 Director David Lynch Transcends

  • January 26, 2025

• S2025E05 The Humanity of Actor Steven Yeun (‘Love Me’)

  • February 2, 2025

• S2025E06 Mikey Madison (‘Anora’) Enters Her Golden Age

  • February 9, 2025

• S2025E07 Are You Not Entertained? Host Chris Hayes (The Sirens’ Call) on the Attention Age

  • February 16, 2025

• S2025E08 Live From New York: 50 Years of ‘Saturday Night Live’

  • February 20, 2025

• S2025E09 Director RaMell Ross (‘Nickel Boys’) is Redefining Cinema

  • February 23, 2025

• S2025E10 Oscars Week with Jesse Eisenberg (‘A Real Pain’)

  • February 26, 2025

• S2025E11 Actor Monica Barbaro (‘A Complete Unknown’) Takes the Stage as Joan Baez

  • March 3, 2025