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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.

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  • Why Football Matters
    Jan 15 2026

    Someone looking to understand America might do well to study the nation’s embrace of football. N.F.L. games regularly outperform anything else on television, and, in 2025, some hundred and twenty-seven million viewers tuned into the Super Bowl—more than ever before. As this year’s championship approaches, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz are joined by their fellow New Yorker writer Louisa Thomas to unpack the sport’s allure, which has persisted despite increasingly dire evidence of the danger it poses to players’ health. Together, they discuss football’s origins as a “war game,” how fictional depictions have contributed to its mythos, and the state of play today. “A very compelling reason for football’s popularity is that it's not only a simulation of war,” Thomas says. “It’s a simulation of community.”

    Read, watch, and listen with the critics:

    “Friday Night Lights” (2006–11)
    “The West Wing” (1999–2006)
    Football,” by Chuck Klosterman
    The End of the NFL’s Concussion Crisis,” by Reeves Wiedeman (New York magazine)

    New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.

    Critics at Large is a weekly discussion from The New Yorker which explores the latest trends in books, television, film, and more. Join us every Thursday as we make unexpected connections between classic texts and pop culture.

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    47 min
  • Do We Need Saints?
    Jan 8 2026

    In “The Testament of Ann Lee,” a new film directed by Mona Fastvold, Amanda Seyfried plays the founder and leader of the Shaker movement—a woman believed by her followers to be the second coming of Christ. Fastvold uses song and dance to convey the fervor that Mother Ann shares with her acolytes. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss how such depictions of religious devotion might land with modern viewers. They trace this theme from Martin Scorsese’s docuseries “The Saints” to “Lux,” a recent album in which Rosalía mines the divine for musical inspiration. These stories, many of them centuries old, might seem out of step with modern concerns. But we’re still borrowing their iconography—and anointing saints of our own—today. “The bracing and sort of terrifying thing about them is precisely that they are human beings,” Cunningham says. “What they say to us is, ‘If you had the juice, you could do it, too.’ ”

    Read, watch, and listen with the critics:

    “Marty Supreme” (2025)
    “The Testament of Ann Lee” (2025)
    “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” (2024—)
    Rosalia’s “Lux”
    “Conclave” (2024)
    Michelangelo’s “The Temptation of Saint Anthony”
    “The Flowers of Saint Francis” (1950)
    Madonna’s “Like a Prayer
    The bizarre rise of ‘convent dressing,’ ” by Eleanor Dye (The Daily Mail)
    What Kind of New World Is Being Born?,” by Vinson Cunningham (The New Yorker)
    Patricia Lockwood Goes Viral,” by Alexandra Schwartz (The New Yorker)

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    50 min
  • Our Romance with Jane Austen
    Dec 25 2025

    Though Jane Austen went largely unrecognized in her own lifetime—four of her six novels were published anonymously, and the other two only after her death—her name is now synonymous with the period romance. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz choose their personal favorites from her œuvre—“Emma,” “Persuasion,” and “Mansfield Park”—and attempt to get to the heart of her appeal. Then they look at how Austen herself has been characterized by readers and critics. We know relatively little about Austen as a person, but that hasn’t stopped us from trying to understand her psyche. It’s a difficult task in part because of the double-edged quality to her writing: Austen, although renowned for her love stories, is also a keen satirist of the Regency society in which these relationships play out. “I think irony is so key, but also sincerity,” Schwartz says. “These books are about total realism and total fantasy meeting in a way that is endlessly alluring.”

    This episode originally aired on June 12, 2025.

    Read, watch, and listen with the critics:

    Pride and Prejudice,” by Jane Austen
    Persuasion,” by Jane Austen
    Emma,” by Jane Austen
    Mansfield Park,” by Jane Austen
    Sense and Sensibility,” by Jane Austen
    Northanger Abbey,” by Jane Austen
    Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen” (The New Republic)
    Emily Nussbaum on “Breaking Bad” and the “Bad Fan” (The New Yorker)
    How to Misread Jane Austen,” by Louis Menand (The New Yorker)
    “Miss Austen” (2025—)
    “Pride and Prejudice” (2005)
    Scenes Through Time’s “Mr. Darcy Yearning for 10 Minutes” Supercut

    New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.

    Critics at Large is a weekly discussion from The New Yorker which explores the latest trends in books, television, film, and more. Join us every Thursday as we make unexpected connections between classic texts and pop culture.

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    46 min
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