The Book Review

The New York Times

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.

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Friday · 56 min
Min Jin Lee Wants Us to Rethink Education
After almost a decade away, the author of “Pachinko” is back with her latest tale about the Korean diaspora, “American Hagwon.”
October 2 · 36 min
Decades Later, Stephen King Is Finishing What He and Peter Straub Started
The author speaks about his new book, “Other Worlds Than These,” which completes a trilogy he began with his friend and co-writer in 1984.
September 25 · 55 min
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Etna,’ by Paul Yoon
Yoon’s latest novel is about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.
September 18 · 57 min
John Green Knows a True Hollywood Ending is Complicated
Critic Dwight Garner talks about his review of Marlon James's “The Disappearers,” and then John Green speaks about writing his first novel for adults, "Hollywood, Ending."
September 11 · 47 min
The Best Books of the 21st Century: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on ‘The Corrections’
If you were a reading adult in the early 2000s, you probably tackled, or at least heard about, “The Corrections,” Jonathan Franzen’s best-selling and much discussed book. The novel won the National Book Award, was a Pulitzer finalist, and an Oprah Book Club pick. The book arrives at its 25th anniversary this month, and in today’s episode of the “Book Review” podcast, host Gilbert Cruz talks with Taffy Brodesser-Akner, a writer for The New York Times magazine and novelist, about why this novel
September 4 · 49 min
It’s Time for a Big Ol’ Fall Book Preview
From horror to history to literary fiction, the Book Review editors discuss 31 titles that deserve a look.
August 28 · 54 min
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘London Falling’
Keefe’s new book explores a teenager’s mysterious death on the River Thames.
August 21 · 26 min
Why We Can’t Resist a Great Bookstore
We visit a local New York City bookstore, dive into The Times’s new bookstore crawl series, and recommend some of our favorite books about bookstores and booksellers.
August 14 · 45 min
This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)
We bring back an episode from our archives, in which Annie Jacobsen discusses her 2024 book “Nuclear War: A Scenario.”
August 5 · 51 min
Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
From “Gone Girl” to “Mystic River,” Gilbert Cruz, Tina Jordan and Sarah Lyall revisit the books that changed the genre, discuss overlooked favorites and recommend the thrillers that everyone should read next.
July 31 · 55 min
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’
Douglas Stuart’s latest novel follows a profoundly isolated father and son, each grappling with long-held secrets.
July 24 · 39 min
Let’s Talk About the Best Books of the Year (So Far)
It’s time for our annual midyear check-in on the books that we can’t stop thinking about.
July 17 · 31 min
Sophie Elmhirst on the True Story of a Shipwrecked Couple
Host Gilbert Cruz's conversation from last year with author Sophie Elmhirst features "Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession and Shipwreck" — the gripping 1970s story of a couple shipwrecked by a whale — newly out in paperback this summer.

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