Special Preview: How the N.R.A. Uses Fear to Sell Guns

Episode 36: Fear and the NRA, and a Hymn for Orlando

Episode 37: El Chapo v. Flores Brothers, and Jack Handey’s Santa Fe

Special Preview: George Saunders on the Trump Campaign

Episode 38: The Wisdom of John McPhee, and the Agony of an iPod Lockout

Karl Ove Knausgaard on Near-Death Experiences, Raising Kids, Puberty, Brain Surgery, and Turtles

The Trump Children Were Investigated for Fraud, But Avoided Indictment

Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, Ukelele Superstars; Jennifer Egan on Cops and Robbers

St. Vincent’s Seduction

My Mother’s Career at “Playboy,” and the Politics of N.F.L. Protest