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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Chaos Among Spies After the Berlin Wall Crumbles
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Diana Goetsch on ‘This Body I Wore’
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‘Son of Elsewhere’ Recounts Life as a Young Immigrant
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Alice Elliott Dark on ‘Fellowship Point’
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A Novel About Brilliant Young Game Designers
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Sensing the World Anew Through Other Species
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Jackie, Before Marrying Jack
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Tom Perrotta on the Return of Tracy Flick
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One Island, Two Men and Lots of Big Questions
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Remembering the ‘Great Stewardess Rebellion’
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Brian Morton on ‘Tasha: A Son’s Memoir’
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John Waters Talks About His First Novel
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Hernan Diaz on ‘Trust’ and Money in Fiction
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Jennifer Egan Talks About 'The Candy House'
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Liana Finck Reimagines the Story of Genesis
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Elizabeth Alexander on 'The Trayvon Generation'
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Fiction About Lives in Ukraine
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Life in an E.R. During Covid
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A Personal Tour of Modern Irish History
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The Science Behind Mental Afflictions
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How People First Arrived in the Americas
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Two New Memoirs About Affliction
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The Invention of the Index
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Jennifer Haigh on 'Mercy Street'
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A Spiritual, Dangerous Quest in the Himalayas
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Ruta Sepetys Talks About 'I Must Betray You'
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Imani Perry Talks About 'South to America'
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The Chinese Language Revolution
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Robert Gottlieb on ‘Garbo’ and ‘Babbitt’
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The Second Annual Listeners’ Questions Episode
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David Sedaris’s Diaries and Paul McCartney’s Songs
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The Life of a Jazz Age Madam
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A New Oral History of HBO
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Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2021
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Ann Patchett on ‘These Precious Days’
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Ross Douthat on Dealing With Lyme Disease
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Alan Cumming Talks About ‘Baggage’
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Huma Abedin Talks About 'Both/And'
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Katie Couric Talks About 'Going There'
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One Factory and the Bigger Story It Tells
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Thomas Mallon on the Career of Jonathan Franzen
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Andrea Elliott on ‘Invisible Child’
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Richard Powers on ‘Bewilderment’
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Randall Kennedy on 'Say It Loud!'
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Colson Whitehead on 'Harlem Shuffle'
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Brandon Taylor on the Sally Rooney Phenomenon
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Andrew Sullivan on Being ‘Out on a Limb’
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A.O. Scott Talks About William Maxwell
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Life at Seven Miles Below the Sea
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Dana Spiotta Talks About ‘Wayward’
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