Journalist Garrison Hayes uses the lives of historical Black figures as a blueprint for today’s progressive political dreams ...

Blind Landing, a new independent podcast from journalist Ari Saperstein, chronicles the story of the women’s gymnastics vault being set two inches too low at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. In a namesake ...

Why are we so drawn to stories of the strange and supernatural? Maybe we want to believe that there’s something bigger out there than our prosaic world with its humdrum chores and quarterly KPI ...

In July, RedHanded will celebrate a decade of podcasting. Hannah Maguire, who has co-hosted the hit true crime podcast with Suruthi Bala since the beginning, still can't fathom that the show exists.

The first three episodes of The Telepathy Tapes present us with a strange case of cognitive dissonance. Host Ky Dickens, while exploring the hidden world of non-verbal autistic kids, discovers they ...

American Hostage fell under many people’s radar. Fiction podcasts often do. Unfortunate, considering that the story of shotgun-wielding Tony Kiritsis and radio veteran Fred Heckman was the best crime ...

The Dropout could aim for the zeitgeist more than it does. The hit podcast from ABC Radio and TV’s Nightline bears its DNA in its storytelling, which sticks to the reporting and forgoes any ...

Listening to an episode of 99% Invisible is always a little magical. With host Roman Mars’s warm voice giving the show its enchanting effect, the podcast offers deep dives into design subjects like ...

Another advice podcast? With so many already out there, we don’t blame you for looking past the relaunch of this popular show from NPR. But the new version of How to Do Everything isn’t just full of ...

Heavyweight has been the most consistently surprising narrative podcast since its debut in 2016. Originally a Gimlet show, and then Spotify, the cult podcast was recently revived by Pushkin to general ...

In his new book The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past, Nate DiMeo does what he has been doing in audio form for years: telling small, true stories about the past in resonant ways. The book ...

Each month, Podcast Review’s staff offers recommendations on the best new shows to listen to. Here are our favorite podcasts for December.