The Book Review
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 nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
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Audiobooks are the Best
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Zadie Smith on Her New Historical Novel
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Elon Musk's Biography and Profiling Naomi Klein
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Talking to Stephen King and September Books to Check Out
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Amor Towles Sees Dead People
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What to Read in August
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Ann Patchett on Her Summery New Novel
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It's Getting Hot Out There
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Colson Whitehead and His Crime Novel Sequel
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Great Books from The First Half of 2023
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The Magic of Literary Translation and 'Bridget Jones' at 25
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Remembering Cormac McCarthy and Robert Gottlieb
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What It’s Like to Write an MLK Jr. Biography
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Summer Book Preview and 9 Thrillers to Read
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On Reading ‘Beloved’ Over and Over Again
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Remembering Martin Amis
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Essential Neil Gaiman and A.I. Book Freakout
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Pulitzer Winners
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Book Bans and What to Read in May
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Eleanor Catton on ‘Birnam Wood’
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David Grann on the Wreck of the H.M.S. Wager
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The Enduring Appeal of Judy Blume and Gabriel García Márquez
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What We're Reading
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Victor LaValle Talks About Horror and ‘Lone Women’
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What We're Reading
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Books About the Oscars
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Revisiting 'Wisconsin Death Trip,' 50 Years Later
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On Reading "A Wrinkle in Time"
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Public Libraries, and Profiling Paul Harding
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"Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages"
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A Look Ahead at the Season's Big Books
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The Critics’ Picks: A Year in Reading
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The 10 Best Books of 2022
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Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Discusses “Fleishman Is in Trouble”
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Mark Harris on His Biography of Mike Nichols
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N.K. Jemisin on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Soul’ of Cities
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Jason Zinoman Talks About David Letterman
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Siddhartha Mukherjee Talks About ‘The Gene’
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George Saunders on ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’
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Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley
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Celeste Ng on Race, Class and Suburbia
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The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone
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Andrew Sean Greer on Writing ‘Less’
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Jennifer Egan and the Goon Squad
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David Sedaris’s Diaries
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John Lithgow on “Drama” and Maggie O'Farrell on “Hamnet”
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Robert Caro on His Career
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Roaring Through Paris With ‘Kiki Man Ray’
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Poems in Practice and in Theory
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