The Book Review

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The world's top authors and critics join host Pamela Paul 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.

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06.05.2020

Scott discusses his first in a series of essays about American writers, and David Kamp talks about "Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America."

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06.05.2020 A.O. Scott on the Work of Wallace Stegner Scott discusses his first in a series of essays about American writers, and David Kamp talks about "Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America."
05.29.2020 A Manhunt on the 17th Century’s High Seas Steven Johnson talks about “Enemy of All Mankind,” and Gilbert Cruz offers a guide to Stephen King’s work.
05.22.2020 Immigration Reform, Past and Present Jia Lynn Yang talks about “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide,” and Judith Newman talks about books that help simplify life.
05.15.2020 One Young Mother and the Homelessness Crisis Lauren Sandler talks about “This Is All I Got,” and Sarah Weinman discusses classic mysteries.
05.08.2020 The Angry Children Are Our Future Lydia Millet talks about “A Children’s Bible,” and Barry Gewen discusses “The Inevitability of Tragedy.”
05.01.2020 Lawrence Wright on Researching a (Fictional) Pandemic Wright talks about “The End of October,” and Dalia Sofer discusses “Man of My Time.”
04.24.2020 The Great Alaska Quake of 1964 Jon Mooallem talks about “This Is Chance!” and Elisabeth Egan discusses Charlie Mackesy’s “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.”
04.17.2020 Samantha Irby Talks About ‘Wow, No Thank You’ Irby on her new essay collection, and Jon Meacham discusses three books about leadership during times of crisis.
04.10.2020 Robert Kolker Discusses 'Hidden Valley Road' Kolker talks about a large family beset by schizophrenia, and Elisabeth Egan discusses Lily King's "Writers & Lovers."
04.03.2020 Parenting When the Family Is Locked Inside The clinical psychologist Lisa Damour discusses the specific challenges of raising children during the pandemic, and Dwight Garner asks Pamela Paul about putting together the Book Review.
03.27.2020 From the Archives: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin Whitehead discusses “The Underground Railroad,” and Toobin talks about “American Heiress.”
03.20.2020 From the Archives: Robert Caro on How He Does It The acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses talks about his book “Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing.”
03.13.2020 From the Archive: Michael Lewis and Tana French Lewis discusses "The Fifth Risk," and French talks about "The Witch Elm."
03.06.2020 James McBride Talks About ‘Deacon King Kong’ McBride discuss his latest novel, and Rebecca Solnit talks about “Recollections of My Nonexistence.”
02.28.2020 The Ties That Bind Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump David Enrich discusses "Dark Towers," and Kiran Millwood Hargrave talks about "The Mercies."
02.21.2020 Unjust America Adam Cohen talks about “Supreme Inequality,” and Madeline Levine discusses “Ready or Not.”
02.14.2020 A History of Seduction Clement Knox talks about “Seduction,” and Elisabeth Egan discusses Amina Cain’s “Indelicacy.”
02.07.2020 Leslie Jamison on Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ Jamison talks about Offill’s new novel, and Courtney Maum talks about “Before and After the Book Deal.”
01.31.2020 The Paradoxes of Nuclear War Fred Kaplan discusses “The Bomb,” and Sarah Lyall talks about new thrillers.
01.24.2020 Andrea Bernstein on 'American Oligarchs' Bernstein discusses her new book about the Trumps and Kushners, and David Zucchino talks about “Wilmington’s Lie.”
01.17.2020 Americans on a Financial 'Tightrope' Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn talk about their new book, and Daniel Susskind discusses “A World Without Work.”
01.10.2020 Life in Tech’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir, and Elisabeth Egan talks about Group Text, a new monthly feature from the Book Review.
01.03.2020 Medicine in the Middle Ages Jack Hartnell talks about “Medieval Bodies,” and Matt Dorfman talks about his work as the Book Review’s art director.
12.27.2019 Ralph Ellison’s Life in Letters Saidiya Hartman talks about Ellison’s correspondence, and Olaf Olafsson discusses his new novel, “The Sacrament.”
12.20.2019 Times Critics Talk About Their Year-End Lists Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai on the top books of 2019.
12.13.2019 Poems About the Challenges of Life After Prison Reginald Dwayne Betts talks about “Felon,” and Jung Chang discusses “Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister.”
12.06.2019 The Life of Mike Nichols Ash Carter and Sam Kashner discuss their new oral history of the director, and Alexandra Jacobs talks about her biography of Elaine Stritch.
11.26.2019 10 Best Books of 2019 On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times Book Review discuss this year’s outstanding fiction and nonfiction. Read more details about the books discussed on this episode here.
11.22.2019 The Authorized Life of the Iron Lady Charles Moore discusses the final volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, and Adrienne Brodeur talks about her memoir, “Wild Game.”
11.15.2019 Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley Nicholas Buccola talks about “The Fire Is Upon Us,” and Saeed Jones discusses “How We Fight for Our Lives.”
11.08.2019 Among the Trolls Andrew Marantz talks about “Antisocial,” and Gail Collins discusses “No Stopping Us Now.”
11.01.2019 The Life of Thomas Edison David Oshinsky talks about Edmund Morris’s “Edison,” and Tina Jordan discusses new memoirs by Demi Moore, Julie Andrews and Carly Simon.
10.25.2019 John Lithgow on His Satirical Poems The actor talks about "Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse," and Leigh Bardugo discusses "Ninth House."
10.18.2019 Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’ Williams talks about his new memoir, “Self-Portrait in Black and White,” and Stephen Kinzer discusses “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”
10.11.2019 Are Cheap Clothes Ruining the Planet? Dana Thomas discusses “Fashionopolis,” and Steven Greenhouse talks about “Beaten Down, Worked Up.”
10.04.2019 Ben Lerner's New Novel and the Politics of Language Garth Risk Hallberg talks about Lerner's "The Topeka School," and Bari Weiss discusses "How to Fight Anti-Semitism."
09.27.2019 Samantha Power on What She's Learned Power talks about her new memoir, "The Education of an Idealist," and Craig Johnson discusses his Longmire mysteries.
09.20.2019 Two Times Reporters on ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly discuss their new book, and Tim Winton talks about his most recent novel, “The Shepherd’s Hut.”
09.13.2019 Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey talk about their new book, “She Said,” and Ian Urbina discusses “The Outlaw Ocean.”
09.06.2019 Trump, TV and America James Poniewozik discusses “Audience of One,” and Bina Venkataraman talks about “The Optimist’s Telescope.”
08.30.2019 The Ruining of the American West Christopher Ketcham talks about “This Land,” and Gretchen McCulloch discusses “Because Internet.”
08.23.2019 The Politicization of Academic Life Anthony Kronman talks about “The Assault on American Excellence,” and Christopher Benfey discusses “If,” his new book about Rudyard Kipling.
08.16.2019 Jia Tolentino on Life With the Internet Tolentino talks about “Trick Mirror,” and John Taliaferro discusses “Grinnell,” his biography of a pioneering conservationist.
08.09.2019 Toni Morrison's Legacy Wesley Morris, Parul Sehgal and Dwight Garner talk about Morrison’s career, and Sarah M. Broom talks about her debut memoir, “The Yellow House.”
08.02.2019 The Fight for the Supreme Court Carl Hulse talks about “Confirmation Bias,” and De’Shawn Charles Winslow discusses “In West Mills.”
07.26.2019 Fiction About Unprecedented Situations Ted Chiang talks about “Exhalation,” and Helen Phillips discusses “The Need.”
07.19.2019 Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Nickel Boys' The Pulitzer Prize winner discusses his new novel, and Jon Gertner talks about “The Ice at the End of the World.”
07.12.2019 George F. Will on Conservatism’s Homelessness Will discusses “The Conservative Sensibility,” and David Maraniss talks about “A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father.”
07.05.2019 Picking the Best Memoirs Since 1969 The Times’s book critics talk about choosing the best 50 memoirs of the past 50 years, and Daniel Okrent discusses “The Guarded Gate.”
06.28.2019 Taffy Brodesser-Akner Talks About Her First Novel Brodesser-Akner discusses “Fleishman in Trouble,” and Katherine Eban talks about “Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom.”

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The Book Review episodes:

A.O. Scott on the Work of Wallace Stegner

A Manhunt on the 17th Century’s High Seas

Immigration Reform, Past and Present

One Young Mother and the Homelessness Crisis

The Angry Children Are Our Future

Lawrence Wright on Researching a (Fictional) Pandemic

The Great Alaska Quake of 1964

Samantha Irby Talks About ‘Wow, No Thank You’

Robert Kolker Discusses 'Hidden Valley Road'

Parenting When the Family Is Locked Inside

From the Archives: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin

From the Archives: Robert Caro on How He Does It

From the Archive: Michael Lewis and Tana French

James McBride Talks About ‘Deacon King Kong’

The Ties That Bind Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump

Unjust America

A History of Seduction

Leslie Jamison on Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’

The Paradoxes of Nuclear War

Andrea Bernstein on 'American Oligarchs'

Americans on a Financial 'Tightrope'

Life in Tech’s ‘Uncanny Valley’

Medicine in the Middle Ages

Ralph Ellison’s Life in Letters

Times Critics Talk About Their Year-End Lists

Poems About the Challenges of Life After Prison

The Life of Mike Nichols

10 Best Books of 2019

The Authorized Life of the Iron Lady

Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley

Among the Trolls

The Life of Thomas Edison

John Lithgow on His Satirical Poems

Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’

Are Cheap Clothes Ruining the Planet?

Ben Lerner's New Novel and the Politics of Language

Samantha Power on What She's Learned

Two Times Reporters on ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’

Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein

Trump, TV and America

The Ruining of the American West

The Politicization of Academic Life

Jia Tolentino on Life With the Internet

Toni Morrison's Legacy

The Fight for the Supreme Court

Fiction About Unprecedented Situations

Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Nickel Boys'

George F. Will on Conservatism’s Homelessness

Picking the Best Memoirs Since 1969

Taffy Brodesser-Akner Talks About Her First Novel

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