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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. Subscribe today at…

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What to Read This Halloween, According to Two Best-Selling Writers 2026-10-23 · 52m
A Book Review Critics’ Roundtable 2026-10-16 · 42m
Min Jin Lee Wants Us to Rethink Education 2026-10-09 · 57m
Decades Later, Stephen King Is Finishing What He and Peter Straub Started 2026-10-02 · 36m
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Etna,’ by Paul Yoon 2026-09-26 · 56m
John Green Knows a True Hollywood Ending is Complicated 2026-09-18 · 58m
The Best Books of the 21st Century: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on ‘The Corrections’ 2026-09-11 · 47m
It’s Time for a Big Ol’ Fall Book Preview 2026-09-04 · 49m
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘London Falling’ 2026-08-29 · 54m
Why We Can’t Resist a Great Bookstore 2026-08-21 · 26m
This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore) 2026-08-14 · 45m
Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century 2026-08-05 · 51m
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’ 2026-08-01 · 55m
Let’s Talk About the Best Books of the Year (So Far) 2026-07-24 · 39m
Sophie Elmhirst on the True Story of a Shipwrecked Couple 2026-07-17 · 32m
This Author Says You Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by ‘The Odyssey’ 2026-07-10 · 44m
Jill Lepore on What to Read This Fourth of July 2026-07-03 · 52m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Yesteryear,' by Caro Claire Burke 2026-06-27 · 58m
Art, Outrage and How the Culture Wars Began 2026-06-19 · 35m
The Best Books of the 21st Century: Ryan Holiday on ‘The Road’ 2026-06-12 · 37m
A Summer Book Recommendation Bonanza 2026-06-05 · 44m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Transcription,' by Ben Lerner 2026-05-30 · 47m
The Ezra Klein Show: Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness 2026-05-22 · 89m
Matt Haig on ‘The Midnight Library,’ Mental Illness and Winnie-the-Pooh 2026-05-15 · 42m
Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels 2026-05-08 · 60m
‘The Book Review’ Podcast Turns 20 2026-05-01 · 65m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Renovation,' by Kenan Orhan 2026-04-24 · 43m
The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading 2026-04-17 · 36m
Patrick Radden Keefe on the Mystery at the Center of ‘London Falling’ 2026-04-10 · 35m
23 Books We Are Looking Forward to This Spring 2026-04-03 · 48m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Kin,' by Tayari Jones 2026-03-27 · 47m
Andy Weir on Writing the Hit Book Behind the Movie ‘Project Hail Mary’ 2026-03-20 · 39m
Louise Erdrich on Her New Story Collection and the Mystery of Writing 2026-03-13 · 34m
The Avett Brothers’ Bassist on Writing a John Quincy Adams Book 2026-03-06 · 38m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Wuthering Heights,' by Emily Brontë 2026-02-27 · 54m
Director Clint Bentley on Adapting ‘Train Dreams’ for the Big Screen 2026-02-24 · 39m
Guillermo del Toro on Writing and Directing the Oscar-Nominated ‘Frankenstein’ 2026-02-20 · 36m
Julia Quinn on Her 'Bridgerton' Books and the Smash Netflix Series 2026-02-13 · 43m
How Nintendo Became the World's Most Fun Video Game Company 2026-02-06 · 43m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Hounding' by Xenobe Purvis 2026-01-30 · 50m
Chuck Klosterman Has So Much to Say About Football 2026-01-23 · 45m
The Books We're Excited About in Early 2026 2026-01-16 · 46m
'The Correspondent' Author Virginia Evans On Her Breakout Year 2026-01-09 · 40m
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘What We Can Know’ 2025-12-27 · 52m
What Did 2025 Mean for Books? 2025-12-19 · 47m
Our Book Critics on Their 2025 in Reading 2025-12-12 · 36m
The 10 Best Books of 2025 2025-12-02 · 78m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Hamnet' 2025-11-28 · 62m
Welcome to Literary Award Season 2025-11-22 · 47m
Nicholas Boggs on Writing a James Baldwin Biography 2025-11-14 · 36m
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later 2025-11-07 · 40m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' 2025-10-31 · 45m
Joe Hill's Scary Book Recs and Victor LaValle on "The Haunting of Hill House" (Rerun) 2025-10-24 · 48m
Stephen King Isn't Always Scary (with Sean Fennessey) 2025-10-17 · 53m
Brandon Taylor On His New Novel, 'Minor Black Figures' 2025-10-10 · 40m
The Sunday Special: The Books We Read in School 2025-10-03 · 39m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Pride and Prejudice' 2025-09-26 · 65m
Mary Roach Loves Writing About Weird Science 2025-09-19 · 37m
17 Nonfiction Books We’re Looking Forward to This Fall 2025-09-12 · 39m
10 Novels We're Looking Forward To This Fall 2025-09-05 · 34m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Wild Dark Shore,' by Charlotte McConaghy 2025-08-23 · 44m
The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: 'Pachinko' (Rerun) 2025-08-15 · 35m
This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like 2025-08-08 · 46m
It's Still Summer. Let's Talk Road Trip Books. 2025-08-01 · 31m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Catch,' by Yrsa Daley-Ward 2025-07-25 · 52m
The Best Books of the Year (So Far) 2025-07-18 · 46m
The True Story of a Married Couple Stranded at Sea 2025-07-11 · 32m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Mrs. Dalloway" at 100 2025-06-27 · 43m
A.O. Scott on the Joy of Close Reading Poetry 2025-06-20 · 34m
50 Years After ‘Jaws’ Terrified Filmgoers, a Reporter Looks Back 2025-06-14 · 37m
S.A. Cosby on Writing Southern Crime Fiction 2025-06-06 · 37m
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Safekeep' 2025-05-30 · 39m
'Fun Home' Author Alison Bechdel on Her New Graphic Novel 2025-05-23 · 36m
Ron Chernow on His New Mark Twain Biography 2025-05-16 · 43m
12 Summer Books We're Looking Forward To 2025-05-09 · 33m
'The Interview': Isabel Allende Understands How Fear Changes a Society 2025-05-02 · 42m
Book Club: Let’s Talk About Adam Ross’s ‘Playworld’ 2025-04-25 · 44m
What It Was Like to Edit The 'Wolf Hall' Books 2025-04-18 · 35m
'The Great Gatsby' at 100 2025-04-11 · 32m
Colum McCann on Undersea Cables and His New Novel "Twist" 2025-04-04 · 37m
Book Club: Let's Talk About "We Do Not Part," by Han Kang 2025-03-28 · 49m
Steven Soderbergh on His Reading Life (Rerun) 2025-03-21 · 43m
Spring Preview: A Few Books We're Excited For 2025-03-07 · 32m
Book Club: Let's Talk About "Orbital," by Samantha Harvey 2025-02-28 · 42m
Celebrating 100 Years of Edward Gorey 2025-02-21 · 35m
Inside the Making of ‘Wicked’ 2025-02-19 · 27m
Adapting the Twists and Turns of ‘Conclave’ 2025-02-14 · 23m
Is Bob Dylan Still a ‘Complete Unknown’? 2025-02-11 · 23m
How ‘Nickel Boys’ Became One of the Year’s Most Visually Striking Films 2025-02-07 · 22m
Book Club: Let’s Talk About Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’ 2025-01-31 · 48m
Alafair Burke On Writing Crime Novels and Teaching Law 2025-01-24 · 34m
How a Wildfire Sent Pico Iyer in Search of Silence 2025-01-17 · 43m
The Books We’re Excited About in Early 2025 2025-01-10 · 38m
The 20th Anniversary of "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" 2024-12-27 · 16m
Book Club: "Small Things Like These," by Claire Keegan 2024-12-20 · 52m
Our Book Critics On Their Year in Reading 2024-12-13 · 32m
Book Club: Dolly Alderton's 'Good Material' (Rerun) 2024-12-06 · 47m
The 10 Best Books of 2024 2024-12-03 · 79m
Book Club: 'James,' by Percival Everett (Rerun) 2024-11-29 · 46m
Book Club: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" 2024-11-22 · 41m
Patrick Radden Keefe on Taking "Say Nothing" From Book to Show 2024-11-15 · 44m
What It's Like to Write a New John le Carré Novel 2024-11-08 · 38m
Sally Rooney's "Intermezzo": Our Book Club Conversation 2024-11-01 · 39m
Two Horror Authors on the Scary Books You Should Be Reading 2024-10-26 · 53m
The Ezra Klein Show: Salman Rushdie 2024-10-18 · 61m
Stanley Tucci on His Year in Eating and a Look at the National Book Awards 2024-10-11 · 47m
Jean Hanff Korelitz on "The Sequel" 2024-10-04 · 39m
Book Club: 'The Hypocrite,' by Jo Hamya 2024-09-27 · 42m
The Fall Books We're Looking Forward To 2024-09-20 · 31m
Robert Caro on 50 Years of 'The Power Broker' 2024-09-13 · 47m
Kate Atkinson on the Return of Jackson Brodie 2024-09-06 · 45m
21st Century Books Special Edition: Isabel Wilkerson on 'The Warmth of Other Suns' 2024-08-26 · 39m
Book Club: 'My Brilliant Friend,' by Elena Ferrante 2024-08-23 · 51m
21st Century Books Special Edition: Jennifer Egan on 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' 2024-08-19 · 41m
Liz Moore on Her Summer Camp Mystery "The God of the Woods" 2024-08-16 · 40m
What We're Reading This Summer 2024-08-09 · 33m
21st Century Books Special Edition: George Saunders on 'Lincoln in the Bardo' 2024-08-05 · 41m
Sarah Jessica Parker on Her Life in Publishing 2024-08-02 · 36m
21st Century Books Special Edition: Min Jin Lee on 'Pachinko' 2024-07-29 · 35m
Book Club: Let's Talk About "The Talented Mr. Ripley," by Patricia Highsmith 2024-07-26 · 46m
21st Century Books Special Edition: Colson Whitehead on 'The Underground Railroad' 2024-07-22 · 36m
What It's Like to Write a King Arthur Tale 2024-07-19 · 33m
The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 2024-07-12 · 37m
Book Club: 'Headshot,' by Rita Bullwinkel 2024-06-28 · 34m
Griffin Dunne on His Joyful and Tragic Family Memoir 2024-06-21 · 38m
10 Books to Check Out This Summer 2024-06-14 · 28m
Elin Hilderbrand on Her Final Nantucket Summer Book 2024-06-07 · 38m
Let's Talk About Percival Everett's 'James' 2024-05-31 · 46m
Writing About NASA's Most Shocking Moment 2024-05-17 · 43m
Fantasy Superstar Leigh Bardugo on Her New Novel 2024-05-10 · 42m
Colm Toibin on His Sequel to 'Brooklyn' 2024-05-03 · 44m
Book Club: Dolly Alderton's 'Good Material' 2024-04-26 · 47m
100 Years of Simon & Schuster 2024-04-12 · 31m
Looking Back at 50 Years of Stephen King 2024-04-05 · 65m
Books That Make Our Critics Laugh 2024-03-29 · 31m
Talking to Tana French About Her New Series 2024-03-22 · 44m
Talking ‘Dune’: Book and Movies 2024-03-15 · 39m
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Erasure,’ by Percival Everett 2024-03-08 · 44m
Tommy Orange on His "There There" Sequel 2024-03-01 · 38m
The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice 2024-02-23 · 36m
Let's Talk About 'Demon Copperhead' 2024-02-16 · 42m
4 Early-Year Book Recommendations 2024-02-09 · 34m
'Killers of the Flower Moon': Book and Movie Discussion 2024-02-02 · 39m
Talking the Joys and Rules of Open Marriage 2024-01-26 · 39m
Our Early 2024 Book Preview 2024-01-19 · 25m
Steven Soderbergh on His Year in Reading 2024-01-12 · 43m
Book Club: 'The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store' 2023-12-22 · 39m
How to Tell the Story of a Giant Wildfire 2023-12-15 · 41m
Our Critics' Year in Reading 2023-12-08 · 37m
10 Best Books of 2023 2023-11-28 · 72m
Talking Barbra Streisand and Rebecca Yarros 2023-11-10 · 33m
Why is Shakespeare's First Folio So Important? 2023-11-03 · 28m
Happy Halloween: Scary Book Recommendations 2023-10-27 · 34m
How Did Marvel Become the Biggest Name in Movies? 2023-10-20 · 34m
What Big Books Have Yet to Come Out in 2023? 2023-10-13 · 25m
What It's Like to Write a Madonna Biography 2023-10-06 · 36m
Audiobooks are the Best 2023-09-29 · 27m
Zadie Smith on Her New Historical Novel 2023-09-22 · 35m
Elon Musk's Biography and Profiling Naomi Klein 2023-09-15 · 24m
Talking to Stephen King and September Books to Check Out 2023-09-08 · 39m
Amor Towles Sees Dead People 2023-08-18 · 53m
What to Read in August 2023-08-11 · 27m
Ann Patchett on Her Summery New Novel 2023-08-04 · 37m
It's Getting Hot Out There 2023-07-28 · 42m
Colson Whitehead and His Crime Novel Sequel 2023-07-21 · 29m
Great Books from The First Half of 2023 2023-07-14 · 38m
The Magic of Literary Translation and 'Bridget Jones' at 25 2023-07-07 · 36m
Remembering Cormac McCarthy and Robert Gottlieb 2023-06-23 · 42m
What It’s Like to Write an MLK Jr. Biography 2023-06-16 · 33m
Summer Book Preview and 9 Thrillers to Read 2023-06-09 · 35m
On Reading ‘Beloved’ Over and Over Again 2023-06-02 · 20m
Remembering Martin Amis 2023-05-26 · 27m
Essential Neil Gaiman and A.I. Book Freakout 2023-05-19 · 32m
Pulitzer Winners 2023-05-12 · 34m
Book Bans and What to Read in May 2023-05-05 · 26m
Eleanor Catton on ‘Birnam Wood’ 2023-04-28 · 33m
David Grann on the Wreck of the H.M.S. Wager 2023-04-21 · 35m
The Enduring Appeal of Judy Blume and Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-14 · 23m
What We're Reading 2023-04-07 · 28m
Victor LaValle Talks About Horror and ‘Lone Women’ 2023-03-31 · 35m
What We're Reading 2023-03-17 · 23m
Books About the Oscars 2023-03-10 · 20m
Revisiting 'Wisconsin Death Trip,' 50 Years Later 2023-03-03 · 23m
On Reading "A Wrinkle in Time" 2023-02-24 · 20m
Public Libraries, and Profiling Paul Harding 2023-02-17 · 25m
"Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages" 2023-02-10 · 22m
A Look Ahead at the Season's Big Books 2023-02-03 · 21m
The Critics’ Picks: A Year in Reading 2022-12-09 · 29m
The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-12-02 · 56m
Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein 2022-11-24 · 44m
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Discusses “Fleishman Is in Trouble” 2022-11-18 · 41m
Mark Harris on His Biography of Mike Nichols 2022-11-11 · 41m
N.K. Jemisin on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Soul’ of Cities 2022-11-04 · 64m
Jason Zinoman Talks About David Letterman 2022-10-28 · 43m
Siddhartha Mukherjee Talks About ‘The Gene’ 2022-10-21 · 35m
George Saunders on ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ 2022-10-14 · 35m
Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley 2022-10-07 · 44m
Celeste Ng on Race, Class and Suburbia 2022-09-30 · 25m
The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone 2022-09-23 · 51m
Andrew Sean Greer on Writing ‘Less’ 2022-09-16 · 28m
Jennifer Egan and the Goon Squad 2022-09-10 · 36m
David Sedaris’s Diaries 2022-09-02 · 19m
John Lithgow on “Drama” and Maggie O'Farrell on “Hamnet” 2022-08-26 · 32m
Robert Caro on His Career 2022-08-19 · 43m
Roaring Through Paris With ‘Kiki Man Ray’ 2022-08-12 · 30m
Poems in Practice and in Theory 2022-08-05 · 43m
Chaos Among Spies After the Berlin Wall Crumbles 2022-07-29 · 53m
Diana Goetsch on ‘This Body I Wore’ 2022-07-22 · 56m
‘Son of Elsewhere’ Recounts Life as a Young Immigrant 2022-07-15 · 57m
Alice Elliott Dark on ‘Fellowship Point’ 2022-07-09 · 57m
A Novel About Brilliant Young Game Designers 2022-07-01 · 49m
Sensing the World Anew Through Other Species 2022-06-25 · 46m
Jackie, Before Marrying Jack 2022-06-17 · 48m
Tom Perrotta on the Return of Tracy Flick 2022-06-10 · 52m
One Island, Two Men and Lots of Big Questions 2022-06-03 · 53m
Remembering the ‘Great Stewardess Rebellion’ 2022-05-27 · 52m
Brian Morton on ‘Tasha: A Son’s Memoir’ 2022-05-20 · 36m
John Waters Talks About His First Novel 2022-05-13 · 33m
Hernan Diaz on ‘Trust’ and Money in Fiction 2022-05-07 · 49m
Jennifer Egan Talks About 'The Candy House' 2022-04-29 · 41m
Liana Finck Reimagines the Story of Genesis 2022-04-23 · 38m
Elizabeth Alexander on 'The Trayvon Generation' 2022-04-15 · 47m
Fiction About Lives in Ukraine 2022-04-08 · 49m
Life in an E.R. During Covid 2022-04-02 · 51m
A Personal Tour of Modern Irish History 2022-03-25 · 52m
The Science Behind Mental Afflictions 2022-03-18 · 59m
How People First Arrived in the Americas 2022-03-11 · 62m
Two New Memoirs About Affliction 2022-03-04 · 61m
The Invention of the Index 2022-02-25 · 49m
Jennifer Haigh on 'Mercy Street' 2022-02-18 · 54m
A Spiritual, Dangerous Quest in the Himalayas 2022-02-11 · 55m
Ruta Sepetys Talks About 'I Must Betray You' 2022-02-04 · 57m
Imani Perry Talks About 'South to America' 2022-01-28 · 55m
The Chinese Language Revolution 2022-01-21 · 61m
Robert Gottlieb on ‘Garbo’ and ‘Babbitt’ 2022-01-14 · 51m
The Second Annual Listeners’ Questions Episode 2022-01-07 · 60m
David Sedaris’s Diaries and Paul McCartney’s Songs 2021-12-23 · 60m
The Life of a Jazz Age Madam 2021-12-17 · 58m
A New Oral History of HBO 2021-12-10 · 65m
Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2021 2021-12-03 · 67m
Ann Patchett on ‘These Precious Days’ 2021-11-25 · 61m
Ross Douthat on Dealing With Lyme Disease 2021-11-19 · 56m
Alan Cumming Talks About ‘Baggage’ 2021-11-12 · 76m
Huma Abedin Talks About 'Both/And' 2021-11-05 · 79m
Katie Couric Talks About 'Going There' 2021-10-29 · 71m
One Factory and the Bigger Story It Tells 2021-10-22 · 74m
Thomas Mallon on the Career of Jonathan Franzen 2021-10-15 · 60m
Andrea Elliott on ‘Invisible Child’ 2021-10-08 · 58m
Richard Powers on ‘Bewilderment’ 2021-10-01 · 65m
Randall Kennedy on 'Say It Loud!' 2021-09-24 · 74m
Colson Whitehead on 'Harlem Shuffle' 2021-09-17 · 69m
Brandon Taylor on the Sally Rooney Phenomenon 2021-09-10 · 66m
Andrew Sullivan on Being ‘Out on a Limb’ 2021-09-03 · 67m
A.O. Scott Talks About William Maxwell 2021-08-27 · 60m
Life at Seven Miles Below the Sea 2021-08-20 · 55m
Dana Spiotta Talks About ‘Wayward’ 2021-08-13 · 56m
Katie Kitamura Talks About ‘Intimacies’ 2021-08-06 · 66m
Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Devastating Novel 2021-07-30 · 61m
A Heartbreaking Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Secrets 2021-07-23 · 57m
S.A. Cosby on 'Razorblade Tears' 2021-07-16 · 59m
The Lives of Flies 2021-07-09 · 45m
An Outsider Finds Suspense in Hollywood 2021-07-02 · 59m
Clint Smith on ‘How the Word Is Passed’ 2021-06-25 · 73m
George Packer on Our Divided America 2021-06-18 · 59m
A More Perfect Union 2021-06-11 · 63m
Reimagining the Aftermath of a Wartime Attack 2021-06-04 · 49m
A Desperate Writer Steals 'The Plot' 2021-05-28 · 65m
Maggie O’Farrell on ‘Hamnet’ 2021-05-21 · 57m
Louis Menand on 'The Free World' 2021-05-14 · 70m
Michael Lewis on 'The Premonition' 2021-05-07 · 66m
Amy Klobuchar on 'Antitrust' 2021-04-30 · 67m
Patrick Radden Keefe on ‘Empire of Pain’ 2021-04-23 · 63m
Celebrating Our 15th Anniversary 2021-04-16 · 76m
Blake Bailey on Writing His Life of Philip Roth 2021-04-09 · 61m
Carl Zimmer on Defining Life 2021-04-02 · 57m
Tillie Olsen and the Barriers to Creativity 2021-03-26 · 63m
Four Decades of Downs and Ups in New York City 2021-03-19 · 53m
Imbolo Mbue on Writing Her Second Novel 2021-03-12 · 63m
Kazuo Ishiguro and Friendship With Machines 2021-03-05 · 71m
Lauren Oyler Talks About Deception Online 2021-02-26 · 68m
Writing About Illness Without Platitudes 2021-02-19 · 68m
This Land Is Whose Land? 2021-02-12 · 62m
Chang-rae Lee on His New Novel: ‘It’s Kind of a Crazy Book.’ 2021-02-05 · 67m
Navigating the Maze of Paying for College 2021-01-29 · 69m
The Ethics of Adoption in America 2021-01-22 · 63m
James Comey and Truth in Government 2021-01-15 · 64m
Charles Yu Talks About ‘Interior Chinatown’ 2021-01-08 · 55m
Fareed Zakaria on Life After the Pandemic 2021-01-01 · 58m
The Listeners’ Episode: Editors and Critics Answer Your Questions 2020-12-25 · 74m
Agents of Change 2020-12-18 · 49m
Jo Nesbo Talks About 'The Kingdom' 2020-12-11 · 60m
David Sedaris on a Career-Spanning Collection 2020-12-04 · 64m
Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-27 · 70m
Joy Williams and Unique Views of America 2020-11-20 · 62m
David Byrne on Turning 'American Utopia' Into a Book 2020-11-13 · 49m
The Birth of the Animal Rights Movement 2020-11-06 · 50m
A Writing Career Among Trailblazing Music Stars 2020-10-30 · 59m
Real-Life Political Violence Fuels Fiction in ‘The Abstainer’ 2020-10-23 · 54m
The Ottoman Empire’s Influence on the Present Day 2020-10-16 · 63m
The Fate of Refugees After World War II 2020-10-09 · 63m
Hari Kunzru on Writing ‘Red Pill’ 2020-10-02 · 65m
C.I.A. Operatives in the Early Years of the Cold War 2020-09-25 · 67m
Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction 2020-09-18 · 60m
Brian Stelter on Fox News and Reed Hastings on Netflix 2020-09-11 · 58m
Jeffrey Toobin on Writing About Trump 2020-09-04 · 57m
Kurt Andersen on ‘Evil Geniuses’ 2020-08-28 · 58m
The Life of a Brilliant, Suffering Scientist 2020-08-21 · 48m
The Fictional World of Edward P. Jones 2020-08-14 · 62m
Isabel Wilkerson Talks About 'Caste' 2020-08-07 · 55m
The 'Seductive Lure' of Authoritarianism 2020-07-31 · 54m
The Yearning for the Unexplained 2020-07-24 · 52m
Newt Gingrich and the Start of an Era 2020-07-17 · 65m
David Mitchell's Vast and Tangled Universe 2020-07-10 · 62m
Jules Feiffer on His Long, Varied Career 2020-07-02 · 56m
A Short Guide to 'The World' 2020-06-26 · 66m
André Leon Talley on 'The Chiffon Trenches' 2020-06-18 · 60m
Stephen Fry on Reimagining the Greek Myths 2020-06-12 · 62m
A.O. Scott on the Work of Wallace Stegner 2020-06-05 · 59m
A Manhunt on the 17th Century’s High Seas 2020-05-29 · 67m
Immigration Reform, Past and Present 2020-05-22 · 59m
One Young Mother and the Homelessness Crisis 2020-05-15 · 75m
The Angry Children Are Our Future 2020-05-08 · 58m
Lawrence Wright on Researching a (Fictional) Pandemic 2020-05-01 · 61m
The Great Alaska Quake of 1964 2020-04-24 · 50m
Samantha Irby Talks About ‘Wow, No Thank You’ 2020-04-17 · 56m
Robert Kolker Discusses 'Hidden Valley Road' 2020-04-10 · 54m
Parenting When the Family Is Locked Inside 2020-04-03 · 72m
From the Archives: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin 2020-03-27 · 54m
Robert Caro on How He Does It 2020-03-20 · 63m
From the Archive: Michael Lewis and Tana French 2020-03-13 · 56m
James McBride Talks About ‘Deacon King Kong’ 2020-03-06 · 57m
The Ties That Bind Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump 2020-02-28 · 68m
Unjust America 2020-02-21 · 62m
A History of Seduction 2020-02-14 · 43m
Leslie Jamison on Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ 2020-02-07 · 70m
The Paradoxes of Nuclear War 2020-01-31 · 63m
Andrea Bernstein on 'American Oligarchs' 2020-01-24 · 61m
Americans on a Financial 'Tightrope' 2020-01-17 · 57m
Life in Tech’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ 2020-01-10 · 54m
Medicine in the Middle Ages 2020-01-03 · 53m
Ralph Ellison’s Life in Letters 2019-12-27 · 50m
Times Critics Talk About Their Year-End Lists 2019-12-20 · 42m
Poems About the Challenges of Life After Prison 2019-12-13 · 58m
The Life of Mike Nichols 2019-12-06 · 61m
10 Best Books of 2019 2019-11-26 · 74m
The Authorized Life of the Iron Lady 2019-11-22 · 69m
Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley 2019-11-15 · 67m
Among the Trolls 2019-11-08 · 63m
The Life of Thomas Edison 2019-11-01 · 54m
John Lithgow on His Satirical Poems 2019-10-25 · 63m
Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’ 2019-10-18 · 73m
Are Cheap Clothes Ruining the Planet? 2019-10-11 · 50m
Ben Lerner's New Novel and the Politics of Language 2019-10-04 · 62m
Samantha Power on What She's Learned 2019-09-27 · 67m
Two Times Reporters on ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ 2019-09-20 · 66m
Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein 2019-09-13 · 64m
Trump, TV and America 2019-09-06 · 60m
The Ruining of the American West 2019-08-30 · 60m
The Politicization of Academic Life 2019-08-23 · 51m
Jia Tolentino on Life With the Internet 2019-08-16 · 54m
Toni Morrison's Legacy 2019-08-09 · 67m
The Fight for the Supreme Court 2019-08-02 · 58m
Fiction About Unprecedented Situations 2019-07-26 · 63m
Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Nickel Boys' 2019-07-19 · 53m
George F. Will on Conservatism’s Homelessness 2019-07-12 · 57m
Picking the Best Memoirs Since 1969 2019-07-05 · 51m
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Talks About Her First Novel 2019-06-28 · 62m
Jill Lepore on the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing 2019-06-21 · 64m
The World's Far Corners and Deepest Depths 2019-06-14 · 58m
Rethinking the Epidemic of Domestic Violence 2019-06-07 · 59m
Thrillers for Summer 2019-05-31 · 54m
A Trilogy About the American Revolution Begins 2019-05-24 · 72m
Harper Lee's Unwritten True-Crime Book 2019-05-17 · 55m
The Real Life of a Diplomat, Told Like a Novel 2019-05-10 · 66m
Laila Lalami on 'The Other Americans' 2019-05-03 · 57m
Connecting the Dots Between Reconstruction and Jim Crow 2019-04-26 · 62m
Robert Caro on How He Does It 2019-04-19 · 72m
Ruth Reichl's Delicious New Memoir 2019-04-12 · 69m
The Chernobyl Disaster in Full 2019-04-05 · 55m
Preet Bharara on the Rule of Law 2019-03-29 · 55m
The Life of Sandra Day O'Connor 2019-03-22 · 65m
Isaac Mizrahi on His New Memoir 2019-03-15 · 65m
A Violent Summer in Chicago 2019-03-08 · 59m
A Gripping Political Mystery in Northern Ireland 2019-03-01 · 66m
Seeking Silence 2019-02-22 · 51m
A Class in ‘Dreyer’s English’ 2019-02-15 · 63m
Marlon James Talks About His Epic New Trilogy 2019-02-08 · 50m
Assessing the Facebook Problem 2019-02-01 · 58m
Dani Shapiro on Her Surprising 'Inheritance' 2019-01-25 · 69m
A New Novel Conjures Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman 2019-01-18 · 51m
How Curses Function in Literature 2019-01-11 · 70m
Fugitive Slaves and the Road to the Civil War 2019-01-04 · 57m
Tyranny in Rome and Fake Drugs in Fiction 2018-12-28 · 62m
Isabel Wilkerson Talks About Michelle Obama’s Memoir 2018-12-21 · 63m
Poetry & Politics 2018-12-14 · 58m
Immaturity in American Politics 2018-12-07 · 50m
Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2018 2018-11-30 · 56m
The Epic Tragedy of Vietnam 2018-11-21 · 57m
The Past, Present and Future of Jews in America 2018-11-16 · 64m
Big New Biographies of Two Big American Lives 2018-11-09 · 54m
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on “Friday Black” 2018-11-02 · 65m
Lisa Brennan-Jobs on 'Small Fry' 2018-10-26 · 54m
Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire 2018-10-19 · 57m
Barry Jenkins and Meg Wolitzer on Two of This Season's Novels on Screen 2018-10-16 · 51m
Michael Lewis and Tana French on Their Latest Books 2018-10-12 · 62m
Kate Atkinson on 'Transcription' 2018-10-05 · 50m
The End of the ‘Struggle’ 2018-09-28 · 61m
Esi Edugyan on Her Booker-Shortlisted 'Washington Black' 2018-09-21 · 59m
A Memoir From the Hard-Working ‘Heartland’ 2018-09-14 · 59m
'The Most Secretly Interesting Place in America' 2018-09-07 · 75m
The Uses and Misuses of Identity 2018-08-31 · 73m
Interrogating the Change Makers 2018-08-24 · 54m
Rethinking the 'Tangled Tree' of Life 2018-08-17 · 62m
Lydia Millet on 'Fight No More' 2018-08-10 · 57m
Beth Macy on 'Dopesick' 2018-08-03 · 58m
Drawing History 2018-07-27 · 51m
True Crime Starring the Creator of Sherlock Holmes 2018-07-20 · 57m
Making a Killing 2018-07-19 · 20m
From Transcribing for Obama to Writing Her Own Story 2018-07-13 · 70m
An Inside View of Putin 2018-07-06 · 64m
The Latest in Cyberwarfare 2018-06-29 · 65m
The Life of Atticus Finch 2018-06-22 · 59m
The Things We Inherit 2018-06-15 · 70m
Michael Pollan on His Acid Test 2018-06-08 · 60m
Dinosaurs, the Master of Horror and Philip Roth 2018-06-01 · 66m
David Sedaris on ‘Calypso’ 2018-05-25 · 79m
Lost at Sea 2018-05-18 · 71m
Amy Chozick on 'Chasing Hillary' 2018-05-11 · 63m
There Is Nothin' Like a Tune 2018-05-04 · 66m
Julian Barnes on 'The Only Story' 2018-04-27 · 74m
Jo Nesbo Reimagines ‘Macbeth’ 2018-04-20 · 64m
Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens 2018-04-13 · 53m
Tara Westover on 'Educated' 2018-04-06 · 68m
All in the Family 2018-03-30 · 52m
'Just the Funny Parts' 2018-03-23 · 53m
Impeachment, Then and Now 2018-03-16 · 59m
Ronen Bergman on Israel’s Targeted Assassinations 2018-03-09 · 52m
A Marine’s Inventive Memoir 2018-03-02 · 57m
Tayari Jones on 'An American Marriage' 2018-02-23 · 57m
Lisa Halliday on 'Asymmetry' 2018-02-16 · 58m
Laura Lippman on 'Sunburn' 2018-02-09 · 43m
Rose McGowan on 'Brave' 2018-02-02 · 59m
Twilight's Last Gleaming? 2018-01-26 · 62m
'Off the Charts' 2018-01-19 · 57m
Some Assembly Required 2018-01-12 · 53m
What to Read About North Korea 2018-01-05 · 58m
The Fire Next Time 2017-12-29 · 47m
'The Story of the Jews' Continues 2017-12-22 · 50m
Mary Beard on 'Women & Power' 2017-12-15 · 54m
'The Second Coming of the KKK' 2017-12-08 · 69m
The History of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone 2017-12-01 · 46m
O Pioneers! 2017-11-21 · 53m
Mother Knows Best? 2017-11-17 · 65m
Kurt Andersen on Channeling President Trump 2017-11-10 · 60m
The American Revolution in Six Lives 2017-11-03 · 54m
Marilyn Stasio on True Crime 2017-10-27 · 44m
From Podcast to Book with Marc Maron 2017-10-20 · 72m
Ron Chernow on 'Grant' 2017-10-13 · 68m
Jennifer Egan Talks About 'Manhattan Beach' 2017-10-06 · 55m
Recent Romances 2017-09-29 · 46m
Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' 2017-09-22 · 62m
Jill Abramson on the 2016 Presidential Campaign 2017-09-15 · 77m
'Gorbachev: His Life and Times' 2017-09-08 · 49m
An American Abroad 2017-09-01 · 43m
The Joys of Children’s Literature 2017-08-25 · 47m
Analyzing Freud 2017-08-18 · 46m
New Books About Parenting 2017-08-11 · 47m
Amy Schumer on ‘Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo’ 2017-08-04 · 47m
'Lights On, Rats Out' 2017-07-28 · 48m
Steve Bannon's Road to the White House 2017-07-21 · 58m
The World of Jane Austen Fans 2017-07-14 · 47m
The History of the London Zoo 2017-07-07 · 48m
Silk on a Stick 2017-06-30 · 44m
'The Boy Who Loved Too Much' 2017-06-23 · 43m
China's World 2017-06-16 · 46m
Al Franken on Life in the Senate 2017-06-09 · 55m
David Sedaris Talks About His Diaries 2017-06-02 · 44m
Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution 2017-05-26 · 41m
Joshua Ferris on ‘The Dinner Party’ 2017-05-19 · 46m
Elizabeth Warren on Fighting for the Middle Class 2017-05-12 · 47m
Gabourey Sidibe and Neil deGrasse Tyson 2017-05-05 · 49m
Sheryl Sandberg on Life After Tragedy 2017-04-28 · 57m
'Hamlet Globe to Globe' 2017-04-21 · 45m
Power and Punishment 2017-04-14 · 48m
Lives on the Line 2017-04-07 · 50m
The Charm of 'The Idiot' 2017-03-31 · 51m
'Ties' to Ferrante? 2017-03-24 · 48m
The Definition of Adulthood 2017-03-17 · 60m
Points of No Return 2017-03-10 · 70m
Happy Trails 2017-03-03 · 51m
The History of Race and Racism in America 2017-02-24 · 49m
Neil Gaiman's Myths 2017-02-17 · 63m
George Saunders on Lincoln and Lost Souls 2017-02-10 · 46m
A Brave Look at Depression 2017-02-03 · 48m
From Brooklyn to the Gulag 2017-01-27 · 48m
Barack Obama's Legacy 2017-01-20 · 43m
Edward Snowden: Hero, Traitor or Spy? 2017-01-13 · 49m
Should You Stop Eating Sugar? 2017-01-06 · 45m
How Octopuses Are Like Aliens 2016-12-29 · 44m
The Year in Reading 2016-12-23 · 39m
Michael Lewis and Arianna Huffington 2016-12-16 · 45m
The 10 Best Books of 2016 2016-12-09 · 51m
100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-12-02 · 42m
Thomas Friedman on 'Thank You for Being Late' 2016-11-25 · 46m
Michael Chabon Talks About 'Moonglow' 2016-11-18 · 48m
War Stories 2016-11-11 · 53m
John Grisham on 'The Whistler' 2016-11-04 · 43m
Thrillers and True Crime 2016-10-29 · 43m
Beth Macy’s ‘Truevine’ 2016-10-21 · 46m
The Rise of Hitler 2016-10-14 · 58m
'Sing for Your Life' 2016-10-07 · 39m
American Apartheid 2016-09-30 · 49m
Simon Schama's 'The Face of Britain' 2016-09-23 · 48m
Maureen Dowd on Clinton and Trump 2016-09-16 · 47m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Mark Thompson's 'Enough Said' 2016-09-09 · 49m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Attica Uprising 2016-09-02 · 41m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘ADHD Nation’ 2016-08-26 · 53m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘I Contain Multitudes’ 2016-08-19 · 46m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin 2016-08-12 · 53m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Colson Whitehead 2016-08-05 · 3m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘How to Be a Person in the World’ 2016-08-05 · 44m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Megan Abbott’s ‘You Will Know Me’ 2016-07-29 · 45m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘We Are Not Such Things’ 2016-07-22 · 47m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown 2016-07-15 · 43m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘You’ll Grow Out of It’ 2016-07-10 · 45m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Hogs Wild’ 2016-07-01 · 44m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Why Populism Now? 2016-06-24 · 54m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Susan Faludi’s ‘In the Darkroom’ 2016-06-17 · 45m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘First Dads’ 2016-06-10 · 42m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Before the Fall’ 2016-06-03 · 47m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets’ 2016-05-27 · 51m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Romanovs’ 2016-05-23 · 42m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Romanovs’ 2016-05-20 · 42m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Gene’ 2016-05-13 · 46m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Pumpkinflowers’ 2016-05-06 · 56m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Celebrating 10 Years 2016-05-05 · 46m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Listen, Liberal’ 2016-04-29 · 33m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide’ 2016-04-22 · 40m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘At the Existentialist Café' 2016-04-15 · 40m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Life of Louisa Adams 2016-04-08 · 34m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Spain in Our Hearts’ 2016-04-01 · 43m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Girls and Sex’ 2016-03-25 · 33m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: American Eugenics 2016-03-18 · 42m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Profiteers’ 2016-03-11 · 45m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘All the Single Ladies’ 2016-03-04 · 52m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘A Mother’s Reckoning’ 2016-02-26 · 35m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘West of Eden’ 2016-02-19 · 40m
Can the American Dream Survive? 2016-02-18 · 39m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Love and Death 2016-02-12 · 48m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-05 · 47m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Bill Bryson on Britain 2016-01-29 · 44m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Dark Money’ 2016-01-24 · 45m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘City of Thorns’ 2016-01-15 · 36m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Defender’ 2016-01-08 · 41m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: You, New and Improved 2015-12-31 · 29m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Year in Poetry 2015-12-24 · 39m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: From Movement to Mainstream 2015-12-18 · 40m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Reading ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2015-12-11 · 50m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: The 10 Best Books of 2015 2015-12-04 · 59m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs’ 2015-11-27 · 40m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: David Hare’s Memoir 2015-11-20 · 41m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Life of George H. W. Bush 2015-11-13 · 44m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Putin’s Reign 2015-11-06 · 51m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Michael Connelly’s ‘The Crossing’ 2015-10-30 · 41m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Doomed to Succeed” 2015-10-25 · 30m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Doomed to Succeed” 2015-10-25 · 30m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’ 2015-10-16 · 33m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter’ 2015-10-09 · 45m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Niall Ferguson’s ‘Kissinger’ 2015-10-02 · 37m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Black Silent Majority’ 2015-09-25 · 40m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Court and the World’ 2015-09-18 · 51m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Fates and Furies’ 2015-09-11 · 41m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Bill Clegg’s Debut Novel 2015-09-04 · 36m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Give Us the Ballot’ 2015-08-30 · 28m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Give Us the Ballot’ 2015-08-30 · 28m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘NeuroTribes’ 2015-08-21 · 52m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Vu Tran’s ‘Dragonfish’ 2015-08-14 · 36m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Katrina: After the Flood’ 2015-08-07 · 38m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Conservative Heart’ 2015-07-31 · 36m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘What Pet Should I Get?’ 2015-07-24 · 28m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Barbarian Days’ 2015-07-17 · 41m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Michael B. Oren’s ‘Ally’ 2015-07-10 · 34m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Skyfaring’ 2015-07-05 · 37m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Skyfaring’ 2015-07-03 · 37m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Art Issue 2015-06-26 · 40m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: When I Grow Up 2015-06-19 · 40m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Stalin’s Daughter’ 2015-06-12 · 44m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: “Reagan: The Life” 2015-06-05 · 36m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Judy Blume’s ‘In the Unlikely Event’ 2015-05-29 · 45m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Shakespeare in Love 2015-05-22 · 36m
Matthew Weiner On the End of ‘Mad Men’ 2015-05-15 · 35m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Future of Work 2015-05-15 · 34m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-08 · 29m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Life of Saul Bellow’ 2015-05-01 · 47m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: Mass Murder in Norway 2015-04-24 · 38m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Spinster’ and Public Shaming 2015-04-17 · 41m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Brothers,’ About the Boston Marathon Bombers 2015-04-10 · 45m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ 2015-04-03 · 40m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ 2015-04-03 · 40m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Folded Clock’ 2015-03-27 · 44m
Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Folded Clock’ 2015-03-27 · 44m
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