Riz Ahmed on “Mogul Mowgli”

The sports journalist Pablo Torre recently won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting for an investigation on his podcast, “Pablo Torre Finds Out.” Torre talks with David Remnick about the challenge of investigative reporting in professional sports—where leagues, owners, pla ...  Show more

When Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s son, Hersh, was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023, she became a prominent spokesperson for the families of Israeli hostages. Throughout Hersh’s captivity, and then after his murder, Goldberg-Polin, who was born in Chicago and emigrated to Isra ...  Show more

You're not going to see a finer film performance this year than Riz Ahmed's in "Sound of Metal". It shouldn't come as a surprise since Riz has been surprising audiences with an amazing assortment of characters in recent years in everything from "Nightcrawler" to "Rogue One". Fina ...  Show more

You have almost certainly heard Nicholas Britell’s music, even if you don’t know his name. More than any other contemporary composer, he appears to have the whole of music history at his command, shifting easily between vocabularies, often in the same film.

His most arre ...

This week’s Dua Lipa: At Your Service guest is actor, musician, activist, and (very!) recent Oscar winner Riz Ahmed. Their all-encompassing conversation explores Riz’s journey from Wembley to Hollywood with detours through Afghanistan and Pakistan; the unexpected parallels for a ...  Show more

British Actor Malcolm McDowell trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While he’s had many notable stage roles, audiences likely know him best for a single, iconic character, Alex DeLarge, the anti-heroic criminal turned victim in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971, A ...