Ave Carrillo
Senior Producer, The New Yorker Radio Hour
Philip Roth
In Philip Roth’slatest novel The Plot Against America, Roth imagines what would have happened if the aviation hero Charles Lindberg had defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 election. In the book, an 8-year old boy named Philip Roth watches as the U.S. sits out of World War II and anti-Semitism flourishes in America. Philip Roth […]
Cheetah Legs
South African Oscar Pistorius runner failed to qualify for the Olympic games by just 7/10 of a second. Pretty good -? especially for a man without legs. But his state-of-the-art prosthetics, called “Cheetah legs,” have caused controversy in the world of sports: for some, they raise questions about what it means to be human. Produced by Ave Carrillo.