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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The Life of a Brilliant, Suffering Scientist
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The Fictional World of Edward P. Jones
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Isabel Wilkerson Talks About 'Caste'
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The 'Seductive Lure' of Authoritarianism
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The Yearning for the Unexplained
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Newt Gingrich and the Start of an Era
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David Mitchell's Vast and Tangled Universe
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Jules Feiffer on His Long, Varied Career
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A Short Guide to 'The World'
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André Leon Talley on 'The Chiffon Trenches'
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Stephen Fry on Reimagining the Greek Myths
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A.O. Scott on the Work of Wallace Stegner
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A Manhunt on the 17th Century’s High Seas
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Immigration Reform, Past and Present
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One Young Mother and the Homelessness Crisis
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The Angry Children Are Our Future
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Lawrence Wright on Researching a (Fictional) Pandemic
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The Great Alaska Quake of 1964
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Samantha Irby Talks About ‘Wow, No Thank You’
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Robert Kolker Discusses 'Hidden Valley Road'
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Parenting When the Family Is Locked Inside
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From the Archives: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin
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Robert Caro on How He Does It
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From the Archive: Michael Lewis and Tana French
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James McBride Talks About ‘Deacon King Kong’
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The Ties That Bind Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump
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Unjust America
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A History of Seduction
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Leslie Jamison on Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’
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The Paradoxes of Nuclear War
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Andrea Bernstein on 'American Oligarchs'
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Americans on a Financial 'Tightrope'
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Life in Tech’s ‘Uncanny Valley’
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Medicine in the Middle Ages
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Ralph Ellison’s Life in Letters
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Times Critics Talk About Their Year-End Lists
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Poems About the Challenges of Life After Prison
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The Life of Mike Nichols
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10 Best Books of 2019
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The Authorized Life of the Iron Lady
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Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley
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Among the Trolls
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The Life of Thomas Edison
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John Lithgow on His Satirical Poems
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Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’
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Are Cheap Clothes Ruining the Planet?
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Ben Lerner's New Novel and the Politics of Language
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Samantha Power on What She's Learned
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Two Times Reporters on ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’
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Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein
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