# today nytimes (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover today nytimes. Page: Feed: --- ## [I Don’t Trust A.I. But I Told it Everything](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-08-19 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ The tech writer and podcaster Bridget Todd was sure she’d never get attached to A.I. chatbots. She was suspicious of the companies behind them, and when she saw articles popping up about people who said they loved their bots, she said she found their situations sad and potentially dangerous. Besides, Bridget didn’t have an empty hole in her life to fill. She had a supportive human partner. She had… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/c546d08a-fa57-449b-8736-2545514ba6f8/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=c546d08a-fa57-449b-8736-2545514ba6f8&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-08-14 · books@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · The Book Review_ Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The journalist Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent more than a decade interviewing dozens of experts while mastering the voluminous literature on the subject — some of it declassified only in recent years — for her 2024 book “Nuclear War: A Scenario,”… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/ac586f8d-0ea7-4ad5-895b-15c7f7833516/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=ac586f8d-0ea7-4ad5-895b-15c7f7833516&feed=MssIhx9y) ## [Am I Too Anxious for Love?](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-08-12 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ Jenny Singer thought she had a lung fungus. That would explain the shortness of breath that she was experiencing. The doctor’s other explanation was anxiety, which seemed completely out of the question to her. But as time went on, Jenny found herself increasingly focused on her “breathing problem,” as she called it, in a way that made it nearly impossible to connect with anyone. Eventually, Singer… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/bf871974-a5d1-4bf3-af8d-a51748512d37/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=bf871974-a5d1-4bf3-af8d-a51748512d37&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [Where Did All My Male Friendships Go? (Encore)](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-08-05 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ Sam Graham-Felsen never imagined being lonely. Throughout his childhood and as a young man his life revolved around his friends. But when Sam got married and then had kids, going out with his friends almost felt like a luxury. After years of focusing on everything in his life except friendship, Sam began to realize he was missing something essential, and he decided to get his friends back. On this… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/8e46a26b-c5b6-4e07-886a-e67f1078377a/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=8e46a26b-c5b6-4e07-886a-e67f1078377a&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-08-05 · books@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · The Book Review_ What are the best thrillers published since 2000? That was the question that the team at The New York Times’s Book Review posed to hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrillers to spy novels to cozy mysteries, as well as librarians, editors, critics and bookstagrammers. We counted up all those votes and came up with a list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century,… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/8a63b7d0-a1a1-4749-b723-1c60757a311c/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=8a63b7d0-a1a1-4749-b723-1c60757a311c&feed=MssIhx9y) ## [Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-08-01 · books@nytimes.com (Hosted by MJ Franklin) · The Book Review_ Early in Douglas Stuart’s new novel, “John of John,” the Booker Prize-winning author describes a peculiar irony: “What skinned him was that the closer he got to home, the more lost he felt.” It’s a passing line, but it captures the tension at the heart of this magnificent book: Here is a story of two men, each profoundly isolated, trying to figure out how to exist in a small, claustrophobic world.… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/21eefcaa-4984-4250-a413-29dfde5c9568/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=21eefcaa-4984-4250-a413-29dfde5c9568&feed=MssIhx9y) ## [Is Polyamory Right for You?](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-07-29 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff is a polyamory expert. When she first heard about polyamorous relationships, back in the early ’90s, hardly anyone was talking about this stuff. But Sheff became fascinated, and for the past 30 years, she’s been studying the lives of kids who grew up in polyamorous families. On this episode of “Modern Love,” Sheff tells the host Anna Martin about her personal and professional… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/490ca637-11bf-460b-b019-ade5a48d70d3/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=490ca637-11bf-460b-b019-ade5a48d70d3&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [Let’s Talk About the Best Books of the Year (So Far)](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-07-24 · books@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · The Book Review_ The editors at The New York Times Book Review spend almost the entire year discussing, debating and sometimes arguing about the year’s best books. We’re halfway through 2026, which means it’s time for the host Gilbert Cruz and the Book Review editors Joumana Khatib and MJ Franklin to talk about some of the best releases of the year as well as a few hidden gems that captured their attention and… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/9e22ea74-ce92-4f20-a650-0c12092c1e85/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=9e22ea74-ce92-4f20-a650-0c12092c1e85&feed=MssIhx9y) ## [My Disability Makes My Sex Life Even Hotter](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-07-22 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ At the age of 15, the filmmaker and actor Kyla Harris had an accident that forever changed what her body could do, and what it couldn’t. From then on, she needed someone with her 24 hours a day to help her with things like going to the bathroom, cooking and showering. Family members, friends, romantic partners and personal assistants have all played a role in Kyla’s care over the years. She’s had… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/36a480d3-2e74-4e89-b839-302589921c0e/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=36a480d3-2e74-4e89-b839-302589921c0e&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [Sophie Elmhirst on the True Story of a Shipwrecked Couple](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-07-17 · books@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · The Book Review_ Today we want to bring back an episode from our archives. It’s about a book that has real beach read vibes. There’s a lot of water. It’s a relationship drama. And it’s also a daring story of survival. “Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession and Shipwreck" made it onto the Book Review Top 10 Books of 2025 and the paperback edition just came out a few weeks ago. It tells the unbelievable… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/529f0c2a-740c-403a-9474-2ed7ba488f36/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=529f0c2a-740c-403a-9474-2ed7ba488f36&feed=MssIhx9y) ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sU7H1qDkQyGF) _2026-07-17 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## ['The Interview': Robby Hoffman Will Always Feel Poor, No Matter How Rich She Gets](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-07-15 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ This week on "Modern Love," we're bringing you one of our favorite conversations from our friends at "The Interview." Speaking to host Lulu Garcia-Navarro, the comedian and actor Robby Hoffman says class and the way she grew up inform everything about the way she lives now. • Thoughts? Email us at theinterview@nytimes.com • Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@TheInterviewPodcast • For… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/af27a5da-28e3-4955-9177-0b368f48a740/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=af27a5da-28e3-4955-9177-0b368f48a740&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [This Author Says You Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by ‘The Odyssey’](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-07-10 · books@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · The Book Review_ If you can’t tell your Eurylochus from your Telemachus, fear not: Your primer on “The Odyssey” is here, just in time for Christopher Nolan’s new film adaptation of the 3,000-year-old epic. Madeline Miller, who reinvented “The Odyssey” in her best-selling novel “Circe,” explains why you shouldn’t be intimidated by the classic. Plus, our critic at large A.O. Scott explains how nearly every genre out… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/86c152b9-7e4e-4f39-b05b-ff35520b0a26/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=86c152b9-7e4e-4f39-b05b-ff35520b0a26&feed=MssIhx9y) ## [Ask Me About My Dead Son](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-07-08 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ In 2019, Susie Shaw’s 9-year-old son, William, died in a skiing accident. We talk about grief a lot on this show, but a parent grieving the death of a child is a loss so profound, words don’t feel adequate. It’s hard to know what to say to someone facing this kind of tragedy. Susie Shaw says: Ask me a question. Ask me about my dead son. On this episode of “Modern Love” Susie tells its host, Anna… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/251fd982-c961-445f-8d9c-d944e2c70801/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=251fd982-c961-445f-8d9c-d944e2c70801&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [Jill Lepore on What to Read This Fourth of July](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-07-03 · books@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · The Book Review_ The United States is celebrating its 250th birthday this summer, giving Americans a chance to reflect on the nation’s past and imagine its future. Who better to help us make sense of this moment than Jill Lepore? The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and author of “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution” joined the “Book Review” podcast to… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/955e3912-b172-414a-a9f2-eb77fbbedc75/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=955e3912-b172-414a-a9f2-eb77fbbedc75&feed=MssIhx9y) ## [Eddie Huang Drops the Tough Guy Act](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-07-01 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ When the chef, writer and filmmaker Eddie Huang joined the “Modern Love” podcast to discuss his new novel, “Come Undone,” our host Anna Martin asked him to start by reading a few lines from his 2017 guest essay for The New York Times . In it, Huang called out stereotypical portrayals of Asian men that have persisted in pop culture: “Every Asian American man knows what the dominant culture has to… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/939f199c-aa23-4ce5-bef4-564a4ce5c494/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=939f199c-aa23-4ce5-bef4-564a4ce5c494&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Yesteryear,' by Caro Claire Burke](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-06-27 · books@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · The Book Review_ “Yesteryear,” Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel, tells the story of Natalie Heller Mills: an ultrasuccessful tradwife influencer who posts about her life on Yesteryear Ranch, a homestead where she grows her own food, tends to cows and chickens, raises her six children and models a particular brand of conservative Christian womanhood. But not all is as it seems. Behind the cameras, nannies care for… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/e0ba1e30-c38f-472e-8455-47407e0549a7/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=e0ba1e30-c38f-472e-8455-47407e0549a7&feed=MssIhx9y) ## [Friends for 16 Years. Lovers for One Night. (Encore)](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-06-24 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ Elizabeth and Jeff were best friends. They did everything together, from early-morning runs to late-night karaoke sessions. They came up with secret code names for each other and went on undercover missions in their neighborhood. They fought, and made up, and fought some more. Beneath their playful dynamic, an attraction was growing between them, but Elizabeth never wanted to risk the friendship… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/2fdb036d-9ff3-4f58-aa2c-a2f662ce1b19/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=2fdb036d-9ff3-4f58-aa2c-a2f662ce1b19&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [Art, Outrage and How the Culture Wars Began](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-06-19 · books@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · The Book Review_ In April 1989, a newspaper clipping about an art exhibit landed in the mailbox of the Rev. Donald Wildmon, the founder of a conservative evangelical group, the American Family Association. Partly funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the exhibit included a now-infamous photograph by Andres Serrano that showed a crucifix submerged in Serrano’s own urine. Incensed, Wildmon sent a copy of… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/ad4b1037-c95a-4212-b606-f1fb0dd7f499/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=ad4b1037-c95a-4212-b606-f1fb0dd7f499&feed=MssIhx9y) ## [How Getting Stoned With My Dad Helped Us Heal](https://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love-podcast) _2026-06-17 · modernlovepodcast@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · Modern Love_ Growing up, Julian Brave NoiseCat’s father, Ed Archie NoiseCat, wasn’t around much. Other than the occasional ride to hockey practice from his dad, Julian mostly remembers the legends about him. Ed is an artist, famous for his wood carvings and larger-than-life stories. Julian remembers seeing him on the cover of Native Peoples magazine and hearing about his escapades driving across the country.… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1/episodes/6902b6ea-7b2e-4585-a666-ce70965afcf8/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=db3c768b-254c-4291-946b-8216b0b2a2a1&awEpisodeId=6902b6ea-7b2e-4585-a666-ce70965afcf8&feed=0N8Hs1MH) ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zNMV2Vyoiq0m) _2026-06-17 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [The Best Books of the 21st Century: Ryan Holiday on ‘The Road’](https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast) _2026-06-12 · books@nytimes.com (The New York Times) · The Book Review_ In 2024, The New York Times Book Review gathered more than 500 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets and literary enthusiasts to help pick the best books of the 21st century so far. One of those books was Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Road,” which came in at No. 13 . That book tells the story of a man and his young son trying to survive in a postapocalyptic United States.… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/85b6a7b1-2a36-4391-bef3-8fca953a3e16/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=85b6a7b1-2a36-4391-bef3-8fca953a3e16&feed=MssIhx9y)