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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Katie Kitamura Talks About ‘Intimacies’
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Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Devastating Novel
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A Heartbreaking Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Secrets
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S.A. Cosby on 'Razorblade Tears'
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The Lives of Flies
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An Outsider Finds Suspense in Hollywood
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Clint Smith on ‘How the Word Is Passed’
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George Packer on Our Divided America
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A More Perfect Union
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Reimagining the Aftermath of a Wartime Attack
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A Desperate Writer Steals 'The Plot'
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Maggie O’Farrell on ‘Hamnet’
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Louis Menand on 'The Free World'
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Michael Lewis on 'The Premonition'
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Amy Klobuchar on 'Antitrust'
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Patrick Radden Keefe on ‘Empire of Pain’
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Celebrating Our 15th Anniversary
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Blake Bailey on Writing His Life of Philip Roth
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Carl Zimmer on Defining Life
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Tillie Olsen and the Barriers to Creativity
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Four Decades of Downs and Ups in New York City
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Imbolo Mbue on Writing Her Second Novel
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Kazuo Ishiguro and Friendship With Machines
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Lauren Oyler Talks About Deception Online
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Writing About Illness Without Platitudes
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This Land Is Whose Land?
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Chang-rae Lee on His New Novel: ‘It’s Kind of a Crazy Book.’
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Navigating the Maze of Paying for College
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The Ethics of Adoption in America
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James Comey and Truth in Government
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Charles Yu Talks About ‘Interior Chinatown’
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Fareed Zakaria on Life After the Pandemic
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The Listeners’ Episode: Editors and Critics Answer Your Questions
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Agents of Change
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Jo Nesbo Talks About 'The Kingdom'
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David Sedaris on a Career-Spanning Collection
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Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2020
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Joy Williams and Unique Views of America
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David Byrne on Turning 'American Utopia' Into a Book
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The Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
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A Writing Career Among Trailblazing Music Stars
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Real-Life Political Violence Fuels Fiction in ‘The Abstainer’
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The Ottoman Empire’s Influence on the Present Day
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The Fate of Refugees After World War II
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Hari Kunzru on Writing ‘Red Pill’
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C.I.A. Operatives in the Early Years of the Cold War
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Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction
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Brian Stelter on Fox News and Reed Hastings on Netflix
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Jeffrey Toobin on Writing About Trump
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Kurt Andersen on ‘Evil Geniuses’
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