For the previous few months, The Sunday Learn has been a fixture of the weekend feed on “The Each day,” that includes narrated renditions of The New York Occasions’s journalism.
Began within the early days of the pandemic, the sequence has make clear our present second with tales of isolation and meditations on race in America. Nevertheless it has additionally offered moments of escapism: from lengthy walks into forest worlds to journeys to exoplanets.
Listed here are only a few of our favourite and hottest episodes from the previous yr. We hope you get pleasure from.
Written and launched by Wesley Morris
Narrated by Dion Graham
Produced by Sindhu Gnanasambandan | Edited by Mike Benoist
Throughout months of pandemic isolation, Wesley Morris, a critic at massive for The New York Occasions, determined to develop a mustache. His pursuit of novelty and amusement turned out to imply a lot extra.
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Written and launched by Irina Aleksander
Narrated by Julia Whelan
Produced by Sindhu Gnanasambandan | Edited by Mike Benoist
J. Crew, Brooks Brothers, J.C. Penney and Diane von Furstenberg — the pandemic has seen clothes giants lay off employees, shut their shops and file for chapter.
The style business has needed to confront an existential query: What occurs now that nobody has any purpose to decorate up?
Written and launched by Leslie Jamison
Narrated by Julia Whelan
Produced by Kelly Prime | Edited by Mike Benoist
“The phenomenon of feminine anger has usually been turned towards itself,” Leslie Jamison writes. “The determine of the offended girl reframed as menace — not the one who has been harmed, however the one bent on harming.”
On this episode, Leslie explores feminine anger — its necessity and constructive pressure.
Written and launched by Claudia Rankine
Narrated by Janina Edwards
Produced by Kelly Prime | Edited by Mike Benoist
After the killing of George Floyd, we revealed Claudia Rankine’s reflections on the precariousness of being Black in America.
Her phrases have been initially written 5 years in the past, however this summer season they have been rendered related — but once more.
Written and narrated by Tommy Orange and Edwidge Danticat
Launched by Tommy Orange
Produced by Kelly Prime | Edited by Mike Benoist
Because the world reckoned with the pandemic, The Occasions Journal requested 29 authors to jot down brief tales impressed by this second and Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” which was written as a plague ravaged Florence within the 14th century.
On this episode, we share two tales from that sequence: “The Staff” by Tommy Orange and “One Factor” by Edwidge Danticat.
Written and launched by Sam Anderson
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Produced by Sindhu Gnanasambandan | Edited by Mike Benoist
“We’re conditioned to consider that artwork is protected,” Sam Anderson writes. “Destruction occurs in a lot of methods, for any variety of causes, at any variety of speeds — and it’ll occur, and no quantity of reverence will cease it.”
On this episode, Sam explores his private relationship with the David and the way the imperfections in its ankles might see it topple.
Written and launched by Gabrielle Hamilton
Narrated by January LaVoy
Produced by Kelly Prime | Edited by Mike Benoist
Colson Whitehead as soon as wrote that you simply’re aren’t a New Yorker till the primary time you’re in a position to stroll previous a daily spot and say, “That was once Munsey’s” or “That was once the Tic Toc Lounge.” However what if complete sections of the town are turning fallow, companies closing a lot too shortly to grasp?
Gabrielle Hamilton urges us to pause for a second to remind ourselves of particular person losses down every avenue, what which may imply collectively.
Written and launched by Elizabeth Weil
Narrated by January LaVoy
Produced by Kelly Prime | Edited by Mike Benoist
For Aleksander Doba, pitting himself towards the wide-open sea — storms, sunstroke, monotony, starvation and loneliness — is a solution to really feel alive in previous age.
On this episode there’s a pivotal, probability encounter within the open sea between Doba and a passing freighter that may stretch the boundaries of the way you outline serendipity.
Written, launched and narrated by Carvell Wallace
Produced by Neena Pathak | Edited by Mike Benoist
Carvell Wallace considers why, for his youngsters, a pandemic that shut down the world was not information — it was the other of stories. It was a battle that had, in some methods, all the time been part of their lives.
Written by Jim Dwyer
Launched and narrated by Dan Barry
Produced by Bianca Giaever | Edited by Mike Benoist
Jim Dwyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Occasions, died in October. He was 63.
Jim was drawn to tales about discrimination, wrongly convicted prisoners and society’s mistreated outcasts, as outlined in an obituary by The Occasions.
On this episode of The Sunday Learn, Dan Barry, a reporter for The Occasions, reads two tales written by Jim, his friend and colleague.
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Further manufacturing for The Sunday Learn was contributed by Brad Fisher, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell, Parin Behrooz, Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Laura Kim, Ryan Wegner, Kelly Rogers, Carson Leigh Brown, Elena Hecht, Emma Kehlbeck, Margaret Willison, Tanya Perez and Anna Diamond
Particular due to Sam Dolnick, Lisa Tobin, John Woo, Wendy Dorr, Dave Shaw, Julia Simon, Erica Futterman, Blake Wilson, Kyle Ligman and Iva Dixit.