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The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading and what's going on in the literary world. Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp
- 485 - 100 Years of Simon & Schuster
The publisher has gone through a lot of changes since its founding in 1924. Its current chief executive, Jonathan Karp, talks about the company’s history and its hopes for the future.
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 31min - 484 - Looking Back at 50 Years of Stephen King
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel, “Carrie.” On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks to the novelist Grady Hendrix, who read and re-read many of King’s books over several years for a writing project, as well as King superfan Damon Lindelof, the TV showrunner behind shows such as “Lost” and “The Leftovers.”
Fri, 5 Apr 2024 - 1h 05min - 483 - Books That Make Our Critics Laugh
Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai weigh in on 22 of the funniest novels since “Catch-22.”
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 - 30min - 482 - Talking to Tana French About Her New Series
The great Irish crime novelist Tana French joins Sarah Lyall to talk about her new novel "The Hunter," a sequel to 2020's "The Searcher."
Fri, 22 Mar 2024 - 43min - 481 - Talking ‘Dune’: Book and Movies
The Times’s critic Alissa Wilkinson discusses Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel and Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptations.
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 - 39min - 480 - Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Erasure,’ by Percival Everett
A scathing satire about race, publishing and identity politics, Everett’s acclaimed 2001 novel is the basis of the Oscar-nominated movie “American Fiction.”
Fri, 8 Mar 2024 - 44min - 479 - Tommy Orange on His "There There" Sequel
Tommy Orange’s acclaimed debut novel, “There There” centered on a group of characters who all converge on an Indigenous powwow in modern-day Oakland, Calif. His follow-up, “Wandering Stars,” is both a prequel and a sequel to that book. This week, Orange visits the podcast to discuss his new work as well as the book he has read most in his life, Clarice Lispector's "The Hour of the Star."
Fri, 1 Mar 2024 - 37min - 478 - The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice
Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 36min - 477 - Let's Talk About 'Demon Copperhead'
On this week's episode, a roundtable conversation about Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead,” a riff on “David Copperfield” that moves Charles Dickens’s story to contemporary Appalachia and grapples with topics from poverty to ambition to opioid addiction.
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 42min - 476 - 4 Early-Year Book Recommendations
The early part of a year can mean new books to read, or it can mean catching up on older ones we haven’t gotten to yet. This week, Gilbert Cruz chats with the Book Review’s Sarah Lyall and Sadie Stein about titles from both categories that have held their interest lately.
Fri, 9 Feb 2024 - 34min - 475 - 'Killers of the Flower Moon': Book and Movie Discussion
A.O. Scott joins for a spoiler-filled conversation about both David Grann's "Killers of the Flower Moon" and Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated film adaptation.
Fri, 2 Feb 2024 - 38min - 474 - Talking the Joys and Rules of Open Marriage
Molly Roden Winter and her husband have been married for 24 years. But since 2008 they have also dated other people — an arrangement that Winter details in her new memoir, “More: A Memoir of Open Marriage.” In this week’s episode, Sarah Lyall chats with Winter about her book, her marriage and why she decided to go public.
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 38min - 473 - Our Early 2024 Book Preview
It's gonna be a busy spring! On this week’s episode, we talk about some of the upcoming books we are anticipating most keenly over the next several months, including new work from Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett, Tana French and Erik Larson.
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 25min - 472 - Steven Soderbergh on His Year in Reading
Every January, the director Steven Soderbergh posts a detailed list of his previous year's cultural consumption — every movie and TV series watched, every book read. On this week's episode, we talk books!
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 - 42min - 471 - Book Club: 'The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store'
In our last episode of 2023, we convene to talk about James McBride's novel — one of the year's most celebrated books.
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 - 38min - 470 - How to Tell the Story of a Giant Wildfire
John Vaillant, the author of “Fire Weather” (one of our 10 Best Books this year), discusses climate change and the fire that devastated a Canadian petroleum town in 2016.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 41min - 469 - Our Critics' Year in Reading
Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs look back on the books that have stuck with them in 2023.
Fri, 8 Dec 2023 - 37min - 468 - 10 Best Books of 2023Tue, 28 Nov 2023 - 1h 12min
- 467 - Talking Barbra Streisand and Rebecca Yarros
Book Review editor Gilbert Cruz talks to reporter Alexandra Alter about Rebecca Yarros, author of the smash "romantasy" hit "Fourth Wing," and critic Alexandra Jacobs, who reviewed Barbra Streisand's sprawling new memoir.
Fri, 10 Nov 2023 - 33min - 466 - Why is Shakespeare's First Folio So Important?
The Book Review's Sarah Lyall talks with Adrian Edwards, head of the Printed Heritage Collections at the British Library, about a new edition of Shakespeare’s First Folio.
Fri, 3 Nov 2023 - 28min - 465 - Happy Halloween: Scary Book Recommendations
It's scary story season. The Book Review's Gilbert Cruz talks to fellow editors Tina Jordan and Sadie Stein about their favorites.
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 - 33min - 464 - How Did Marvel Become the Biggest Name in Movies?
Host Gilbert Cruz is joined by writers and podcasters Joanna Robinson and Dave Gonzales to talk about their new book “MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios."
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 - 33min - 463 - What Big Books Have Yet to Come Out in 2023?
Book Review editor Gilbert Cruz is joined by Joumana Khatib to talk about the biggest titles yet to arrive in 2023.
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 - 24min - 462 - What It's Like to Write a Madonna Biography
A conversation with Mary Gabriel, whose substantial new biography offers a comprehensive and surprising look at Madonna'a life and career.
Fri, 6 Oct 2023 - 36min - 461 - Audiobooks are the Best
You love books. You love podcasts. Ergo, we assume you love audiobooks. This week we’ve devoted our entire episode to the form.
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 - 26min - 460 - Zadie Smith on Her New Historical Novel
Zadie Smith joins the podcast to talk about her new novel "The Fraud." And we talk about the recent controversy involving the National Book Awards and erstwhile host Drew Barrymore.
Fri, 22 Sep 2023 - 34min - 459 - Elon Musk's Biography and Profiling Naomi Klein
Times critic Jennifer Szalai talks about Walter Isaacson's biography of the world's richest man and her recent look at the writer and activist Naomi Klein.
Fri, 15 Sep 2023 - 24min - 458 - Talking to Stephen King and September Books to Check Out
Stephen King joins the podcast to talk about his new thriller "Holly." And Joumana Khatib gives us a look at six of the month's most anticipated releases.
Fri, 8 Sep 2023 - 38min - 457 - Amor Towles Sees Dead People
The novelist discusses his career and his recent essay about cadavers in crime fiction, and the actor Richard E. Grant talks about his memoir and his love of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 - 52min - 456 - What to Read in August
Sarah Lyall discusses a new thriller in which a scuba diver gets swallowed by a sperm whale and Joumana Khatib gives recommendations for five August books.
Fri, 11 Aug 2023 - 26min - 455 - Ann Patchett on Her Summery New Novel
Ann Patchett returns to the podcast to talk about her new novel, "Tom Lake," and waxes poetic on Thornton Wilder.
Fri, 4 Aug 2023 - 37min - 454 - It's Getting Hot Out There
As record breaking temperatures are recorded across the world, we talk to Jeff Goodell, author of the new book "The Heat Will Kill You First."
Fri, 28 Jul 2023 - 41min - 453 - Colson Whitehead and His Crime Novel Sequel
Colson Whitehead joins the podcast once again, this time to talk about his new novel "Crook Manifesto."
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 - 29min - 452 - Great Books from The First Half of 2023
The editors of the Book Review revisit some of the most popular and most acclaimed books of 2023 so far, including "Birnam Wood," "The Wager" and "You Could Make This Place Beautiful."
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 - 38min - 451 - The Magic of Literary Translation and 'Bridget Jones' at 25
The editors of The Book Review talk about the nitty gritty of literary translation. And then, a conversation about the novel “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” which was published in the U.S. 25 years ago.
Fri, 7 Jul 2023 - 36min - 450 - Remembering Cormac McCarthy and Robert Gottlieb
Gilbert Cruz and Dwight Garner discuss the legacy of a titanic author, followed by some stories about one of the great American book editors.
Fri, 23 Jun 2023 - 42min - 449 - What It’s Like to Write an MLK Jr. BiographyFri, 16 Jun 2023 - 32min
- 448 - Summer Book Preview and 9 Thrillers to Read
Gilbert Cruz is joined by The Times’s thriller columnist, Sarah Lyall, to talk about some great suspenseful titles to check out this summer. And the editor Joumana Khatib gives her picks for books to look out for between now and Labor Day.
Fri, 9 Jun 2023 - 35min - 447 - On Reading ‘Beloved’ Over and Over Again
Salamishah Tillet, a Pulitzer-winning critic, discusses the book she has read the most over the course of her life — Toni Morrison’s classic novel of slavery and trauma.
Fri, 2 Jun 2023 - 20min - 446 - Remembering Martin Amis
The Times critics Dwight Garner and Jason Zinoman celebrate the life and work of the great British novelist and literary critic, who died last week.
Fri, 26 May 2023 - 27min - 445 - Essential Neil Gaiman and A.I. Book Freakout
Where to start with one of today’s most prolific and beloved fantasy writers, and the robot who wrote a murder mystery.
Fri, 19 May 2023 - 31min - 444 - Pulitzer Winners
Hua Hsu, author of the memoir “Stay True,” and Hernan Diaz, author of the novel “Trust,” discuss their books and their reactions to winning the Pulitzer Prize.
Fri, 12 May 2023 - 34min - 443 - Book Bans and What to Read in May
Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth Harris talk publishing news, and Joumana Khatib previews the month’s big books.
Fri, 5 May 2023 - 26min - 442 - Eleanor Catton on ‘Birnam Wood’
The New Zealand writer, who won the Man Booker Prize in 2013 for her novel “The Luminaries,” discusses her latest book.
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 - 33min - 441 - David Grann on the Wreck of the H.M.S. Wager
The New Yorker staff writer discusses his new book, “The Wager,” about the harrowing circumstances and conflicting stories surrounding a 1741 shipwreck.
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 - 34min - 440 - The Enduring Appeal of Judy Blume and Gabriel García Márquez
Elisabeth Egan discusses “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” and Miguel Salazar tells readers where to start with Gabo’s extensive catalog.
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 - 23min - 439 - What We're Reading
In this episode, Gilbert Cruz talks to the Book Review editors Tina Jordan and Greg Cowles about what they're reading, and loving.
Fri, 7 Apr 2023 - 27min - 438 - Victor LaValle Talks About Horror and ‘Lone Women’
The horror novelist talks about his new book and his swerve into the realm of westerns and historical fiction.
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 - 34min - 437 - What We're ReadingFri, 17 Mar 2023 - 23min
- 436 - Books About the Oscars
Just in time for the Academy Awards, our critic Alexandra Jacobs discusses two recent books on the subject, Michael Schulman’s “Oscar Wars” and Bruce Davis’s “The Academy and the Award.”
Fri, 10 Mar 2023 - 20min - 435 - Revisiting 'Wisconsin Death Trip,' 50 Years Later
The Times's critic Dwight Garner looks back on Michael Lesy's cult classic of documentary literature, which was first published in 1973.
Fri, 3 Mar 2023 - 23min - 434 - On Reading "A Wrinkle in Time"
Sarah Lyall discusses reading Madeleine L'Engle's classic novel at a pivotal moment in her childhood, and the lessons she has extracted from the book throughout her life.
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 - 19min - 433 - Public Libraries, and Profiling Paul Harding
Erica Ackerberg and Elisabeth Egan talk about community libraries, and MJ Franklin talks about the novelist Paul Harding.
Fri, 17 Feb 2023 - 25min - 432 - "Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages"
Sadie Stein, an editor at the Book Review, discusses Carmela Ciuraru's book "Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages" with the host Gilbert Cruz.
Fri, 10 Feb 2023 - 21min - 431 - A Look Ahead at the Season's Big Books
Gilbert Cruz and Tina Jordan discuss the upcoming books they're most excited to read in the next few months.
Fri, 3 Feb 2023 - 21min - 430 - The Critics’ Picks: A Year in ReadingFri, 9 Dec 2022 - 29min
- 429 - The 10 Best Books of 2022
On a special new episode of the podcast, taped live, editors and critics from the Books desk discuss this year’s outstanding fiction and nonfiction.
Fri, 2 Dec 2022 - 56min - 428 - Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein
The Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor talk about their book ‘She Said,’ and Neal Gabler discusses the first volume of his Ted Kennedy biography.
Thu, 24 Nov 2022 - 43min - 427 - Taffy Brodesser-Akner Discusses “Fleishman Is in Trouble”
For the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This week’s segments first appeared in 2019 and 2017, respectively.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner's debut novel, “Fleishman Is in Trouble” — a best seller when it was published in 2019 — is back in the public eye, as the source material for Hulu’s new mini-series of the same name. The show, like the novel, follows a man’s life as his marriage of 14 years crumbles.
Brodesser-Akner visited the podcast when her book came out, and told the host Pamela Paul that her time writing celebrity profiles for The New York Times Magazine and other outlets had helped her investigate the psychologies of her fictional characters: “What all the profiles taught me about is not people who want to be known, but what people say when they want you to know a version of themselves that isn’t the truth,” she said. “It taught me a lot about how people talk about themselves, and about how deluded we all are.”
Also this week, we resurface Neil Gaiman’s 2017 podcast appearance, in which he talked about his book “Norse Mythology,” a reimagining of the traditional northern stories about Thor, Odin, Loki and company.
We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review’s podcast in general. You can send them tobooks@nytimes.com.
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 - 41min - 426 - Mark Harris on His Biography of Mike Nichols
Harris discusses the great director’s life and work, and Adam Higginbotham talks about “Midnight in Chernobyl.”
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 - 40min - 425 - N.K. Jemisin on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Soul’ of Cities
Ezra Klein talks to the science fiction and fantasy novelist N.K. Jemisin about her latest book, “The World We Make.”
Fri, 4 Nov 2022 - 1h 04min - 424 - Jason Zinoman Talks About David Letterman
The Times’s comedy critic discusses his biography, “Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night,” and the Times Magazine writer Sam Anderson talks about Oklahoma City and his 2018 book, “Boom Town.”
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 - 43min - 423 - Siddhartha Mukherjee Talks About ‘The Gene’
The oncologist and Pulitzer-winning science writer discusses his 2016 book about the history of genetics, and the novelist Kate Atkinson talks about her spy novel “Transcription.”
Fri, 21 Oct 2022 - 34min - 422 - George Saunders on ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’
The writer, celebrated for his short stories, discusses his 2017 debut novel, and the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe talks about “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.”
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 - 34min - 421 - Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley
Nicholas Buccola talks about “The Fire Is Upon Us,” and Lydia Millet discusses “The Children’s Bible.”
Fri, 7 Oct 2022 - 43min - 420 - Celeste Ng on Race, Class and Suburbia
Ng discusses her best-selling 2017 novel, “Little Fires Everywhere,” and Judy Blume discusses her adult novel “In the Unlikely Event,” from 2015.
Fri, 30 Sep 2022 - 25min - 419 - The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone
Joe Hagan discusses “Sticky Fingers,” his 2017 biography of Wenner, and a panel of Times critics talks about their 2019 list of outstanding memoirs.
Fri, 23 Sep 2022 - 51min - 418 - Andrew Sean Greer on Writing ‘Less’
The novelist discusses his Pulitzer-winning comedy about the travels and travails of a heartbroken writer, and William Finnegan talks about surfing.
Fri, 16 Sep 2022 - 28min - 417 - Jennifer Egan and the Goon Squad
The novelist talks about her Pulitzer-winning book, which includes one chapter written as a PowerPoint presentation, and Stephen Fry discusses Greek mythology.
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 - 36min - 416 - David Sedaris’s Diaries
The essayist talks about his book “Theft by Finding,” a selection of diary entries spanning 25 years that helped him find and shape his voice as a writer.
Fri, 2 Sep 2022 - 19min - 415 - Robert Caro on How He Does It
The acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses talks about his book “Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing.”
Fri, 20 Mar 2020 - 1h 03min - 414 - John Lithgow on “Drama” and Maggie O'Farrell on “Hamnet”
The Emmy Award-winning actor John Lithgow discusses his memoir “Drama” and an actor’s education, and the British writer Maggie O’Farrell talks about her novel “Hamnet.”
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 - 32min - 413 - Robert Caro on His Career
The acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses talks about “Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing.”
Fri, 19 Aug 2022 - 43min - 412 - Roaring Through Paris With ‘Kiki Man Ray’Fri, 12 Aug 2022 - 29min
- 411 - Poems in Practice and in Theory
Elisa Gabbert talks about her poetry criticism and her own poems, and Ian Johnson discusses Wang Xiaobo’s novel “Golden Age.”
Fri, 5 Aug 2022 - 43min - 410 - Chaos Among Spies After the Berlin Wall Crumbles
Dan Fesperman talks about his new thriller, “Winter Work,” and Isaac Fitzgerald discusses his memoir, “Dirtbag, Massachusetts.”
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 - 53min - 409 - Diana Goetsch on ‘This Body I Wore’Fri, 22 Jul 2022 - 55min
- 408 - ‘Son of Elsewhere’ Recounts Life as a Young Immigrant
Elamin Abdelmahmoud talks about his new memoir, and Sally Denton discusses “The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land.”
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 - 57min - 407 - Alice Elliott Dark on ‘Fellowship Point’
Dark talks about her new novel, and Katherine Chen discusses “Joan,” her fictional imagining of Joan of Arc.
Sat, 9 Jul 2022 - 56min - 406 - A Novel About Brilliant Young Game Designers
Gabrielle Zevin talks about “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” and Morgan Talty discusses “Night of the Living Rez.”
Fri, 1 Jul 2022 - 49min - 405 - Sensing the World Anew Through Other SpeciesSat, 25 Jun 2022 - 45min
- 404 - Jackie, Before Marrying Jack
Elisabeth Egan talks about Louis Bayard’s “Jackie & Me,” and Matthew Schneier discusses Paula Byrne’s biography of Barbara Pym.
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 - 47min - 403 - Tom Perrotta on the Return of Tracy FlickFri, 10 Jun 2022 - 52min
- 402 - One Island, Two Men and Lots of Big QuestionsFri, 3 Jun 2022 - 53min
- 401 - Remembering the ‘Great Stewardess Rebellion’
Nell McShane Wulfhart discusses her new history of a labor movement, and James Kirchick talks about “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington.”
Fri, 27 May 2022 - 51min - 400 - Brian Morton on ‘Tasha: A Son’s Memoir’
Morton discusses his first work of nonfiction, and Rachel Careau talks about translating “Chéri” and “The End of Chéri,” by Colette.
Fri, 20 May 2022 - 36min - 399 - John Waters Talks About His First NovelFri, 13 May 2022 - 33min
- 398 - Hernan Diaz on ‘Trust’ and Money in Fiction
Diaz talks about his second novel, and Paul Fischer discusses “The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures.”
Sat, 7 May 2022 - 48min - 397 - Jennifer Egan Talks About 'The Candy House'Fri, 29 Apr 2022 - 40min
- 396 - Liana Finck Reimagines the Story of GenesisSat, 23 Apr 2022 - 37min
- 395 - Elizabeth Alexander on 'The Trayvon Generation'Fri, 15 Apr 2022 - 47min
- 394 - Fiction About Lives in Ukraine
The critic Jennifer Wilson discusses new books by Yevgenia Belorusets and Andrey Kurkov, and Ben McGrath talks about “Riverman.”
Fri, 8 Apr 2022 - 48min - 393 - Life in an E.R. During CovidSat, 2 Apr 2022 - 51min
- 392 - A Personal Tour of Modern Irish HistoryFri, 25 Mar 2022 - 51min
- 391 - The Science Behind Mental Afflictions
Sara Manning Peskin talks about “A Molecule Away From Madness,” and J. Kenji López-Alt discusses “The Wok.”
Fri, 18 Mar 2022 - 58min - 390 - How People First Arrived in the AmericasFri, 11 Mar 2022 - 1h 02min
- 389 - Two New Memoirs About Affliction
Frank Bruni talks about “The Beauty of Dusk,” and Meghan O’Rourke discusses “The Invisible Kingdom.”
Fri, 4 Mar 2022 - 1h 00min - 388 - The Invention of the Index
Dennis Duncan discusses “Index, a History of the,” and Brendan Slocumb talks about “The Violin Conspiracy.”
Fri, 25 Feb 2022 - 49min - 387 - Jennifer Haigh on 'Mercy Street'
Haigh talks about her new novel, and Megan Walsh discusses "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters."
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 - 54min - 386 - A Spiritual, Dangerous Quest in the Himalayas
Harley Rustad talks about "Lost in the Valley of Death," and Jessamine Chan discusses "The School for Good Mothers."
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 - 55min
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