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TOMS Founder Blake Mycoskie Tells Matthew McConaughey How Success Broke Him

Fail Again: The Family Business with Robert Downey Jr.

Fail Again: Chris Carter Wants You To Believe

Fail Again: Aimee Mann Is In My Pantheon

Fail Again: Griffin Dunne — An Actor Builds Character

Fail Again: Failure, Freedom, and ‘Friends’ with Maggie Wheeler

Fail Again: Kumail Nanjiani’s New Ambition

Fail Again: Kathleen Hanna’s Music is Her Message

Fail Again: The Buoyancy of Rob Lowe

Fail Again: Roads Taken and Not Taken with Jason Beghe

Fail Again: Sean Penn and the Squared-Away Individual

Fail Again: Failure Matters with Jaleel White

Fail Again: Chris Evert Hates To Lose More Than She Loves To Win

Fail Again: Failure-ish with Kenya Barris

Fail Again: A Forensic Analysis with Emily Deschanel

David Duchovny Gets Weird with Pete Holmes

Fail Again: Catching Up with Gillian Anderson

John Seabrook’s Family Was the Vegetable Version of ‘Succession’

The Many Lives of Peter Weller

Introducing: Don't Listen To Us with Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody

Kyle MacLachlan (Directed by David Lynch)

How Megan McArdle Became a Liberal-tarian

Waxing Poetic with Jia Tolentino (Live at Strand)

Failure? Success? Judd Apatow Says Give It 10 Years to Decide

Fail Again: Ben Stiller Confronts His Parents' Legacy

Listen Now: Alive with Steve Burns

No Scars, No Stories with Charlie Sheen (Live at 92NY)

Looking Back: Gretchen Rubin Wants to Make You Happy/ish

How Steve Burns Found His Aliveness Again

Tom Pelphrey Wouldn’t Change a Day

Gene Simmons: The Demon Loves His Mom

Check It Out: Building a Legacy with Tisha Campbell (Legacy Talk)

Amanda Knox’s Story Isn’t Over

The Pitfalls of Manhood with Terry Real

An Hour with Melissa Febos About a Year Without Sex

Jess Walter Can Hoop (and Write)

Tim Minchin’s Infinite Universes

The Family Business with Robert Downey Jr.

What Jake Clark Wants You To Know About Trauma

A Forensic Analysis with Emily Deschanel

Check It Out: The Disappearance of Eric Robinson (Uinta Triangle)

Truth and Lies with James Frey

From “Junkie Doctor” to Addiction Specialist with Dr. Jason Giles

AI Should Fear Justine Bateman

Chris Carter Wants You To Believe

Check it Out: Ira Glass on Three Decades of ‘This American Life’ Magic

Not Reading the Comments with Maureen Dowd

Remembering to Forget with Lewis Hyde

Playing God with Jonathan Roumie

Looking Back: One Year of Fail Better

Chris Evert Hates To Lose More Than She Loves To Win

The Grit and Grind of Steve Lukather

EXCLUSIVE PEEK: Reflections on Alec Baldwin, Kenya Barris, and more

Graydon Carter and The Editor’s Eye

25 Years Later and Bree Sharp Is Still Asking Why Won’t I Love Her

Failure Matters with Jaleel White

Check it Out: “Use a Messy Closet, a 3-Hour Rule for Difficult People & Renowned Judy Blume on Reading”

Peter Singer Wants to Save Animals… and Humans, Too

Failure-ish with Kenya Barris

Kara Swisher Is So Much More Than the World’s ‘Musk-splainer’

Failure, Freedom, and ‘Friends’ with Maggie Wheeler

EXCLUSIVE PEEK: Reflections on Gillian Anderson, Rosie O’Donnell, and more

The Humor of Being Human with Costica Bradatan

Looking Back: Mary Trump Knows We’re At a Crossroads

The Buoyancy of Rob Lowe

Gretchen Rubin Wants to Make You Happy/ish

Looking Back: Ben Stiller and the Curse of the Sequel

Alec Baldwin Might Need to Write Another Memoir

Dr. Vivek Murthy Wants to Help Us Heal

Socialism, Anarchy, and Pixar Movies with Jack Halberstam

Aimee Mann Is In My Pantheon

Catching Up with Gillian Anderson

Jia Tolentino Battles The Internet

The Election

Bluffing with Nate Silver

Roads Taken and Not Taken with Jason Beghe

What Madonna Taught Rosie O’Donnell About Fame

EXCLUSIVE PEEK: Reflections on Lisa Loeb and Kathleen Hanna

Why Lisa Loeb Struggles to Finish a Song

Andy Cohen’s Concept of Reality

Seth Meyers Loves When a Joke Fails

EXCLUSIVE PEEK: Reflections on Mary Trump, Sean Penn, and more

Check it Out: “The art of failure with David Duchovny”

Kathleen Hanna’s Music is Her Message

Kumail Nanjiani’s New Ambition

Mary Trump Knows We’re At a Crossroads

Check it Out: “How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events”

Griffin Dunne: An Actor Builds Character

Sally Jenkins Thinks Losing Is Wonderful

Jeremiah Fraites Isn’t Just The Tambourine Guy

The Singular Fredness of Armisen

Check it Out: “Kierkegaard or Californication? (with David Duchovny)”

Tony Hawk and the Trick That Changed Everything

Sean Penn and the Squared-Away Individual

Patric Gagne and the Art of Sociopathic Zen

Stephen Dubner and the Joy of Quitting

Sarah Silverman and the Stupid, Shitty Things You’ve Done

Brad Gilbert and the Problem with Perfection

Gabor Maté and the Reason We’re All Addicted

Bette Midler and the Meanest Man in Showbiz

EXCLUSIVE PEEK: Reflections on Bette Midler

Ben Stiller and the Curse of the Sequel

Coming Soon… Fail Better with David Duchovny (Official Trailer)