The Book Review

S.A. Cosby on 'Razorblade Tears'

Cosby discusses his new novel, and Dean Jobb talks about “The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream.”

An Outsider Finds Suspense in Hollywood

George Packer on Our Divided America

Packer talks about "Last Best Hope," and Suzanne Simard discusses "Finding the Mother Tree."

Reimagining the Aftermath of a Wartime Attack

Francis Spufford talks about “Light Perpetual,” and Egill Bjarnason discusses “How Iceland Changed the World.”

Maggie O’Farrell on ‘Hamnet’

O’Farrell discusses her novel about Shakespeare and his family, and Judith Shulevitz talks about Rachel Cusk’s “Second Place.”

Michael Lewis on 'The Premonition'

Lewis discusses his new book about the pandemic, and Annette Gordon-Reed talks about “On Juneteenth.”

Patrick Radden Keefe on ‘Empire of Pain’

Keefe discusses his new book about the Sackler family and OxyContin, and Elisabeth Egan talks about JoAnne Tompkins’s debut novel, “What Comes After.”

Blake Bailey on Writing His Life of Philip Roth

Bailey talks about his new biography, and Julia Sweig discusses “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.”

Tillie Olsen and the Barriers to Creativity

A. O. Scott discusses Olsen’s work, and Wendy Lower talks about “The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed.”

Imbolo Mbue on Writing Her Second Novel

Mbue talks about “How Beautiful We Were,” and Annalee Newitz discusses “Four Lost Cities.”

Lauren Oyler Talks About Deception Online

Oyler discusses her debut novel, “Fake Accounts,” and Stephen Kearse talks about the work of Octavia Butler.

This Land Is Whose Land?

Simon Winchester talks about “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World,” and Amelia Pang discusses “Made in China.”

Navigating the Maze of Paying for College

Ron Lieber talks about “The Price You Pay for College,” and Michael J. Stephen discusses “Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs.”

James Comey and Truth in Government

Joe Klein talks about Comey’s “Saving Justice,” and Elisabeth Egan discusses Peter Ho Davies’s “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself.”

Fareed Zakaria on Life After the Pandemic

Zakaria discusses “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World,” and Margaret MacMillan talks about “War: How Conflict Shaped Us.”

Agents of Change

Kerri Greenidge discusses two books about African-Americans in the years before the Civil War, and Neal Gabler talks about “Catching the Wind,” his biography of Edward Kennedy.

David Sedaris on a Career-Spanning Collection

Sedaris talks about “The Best of Me” and his life as an essayist.

Joy Williams and Unique Views of America

A.O. Scott talks about Williams’s fiction, and Nicholas Christakis discusses his new book about the coronavirus, “Apollo’s Arrow.”

The Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

Ernest Freeberg talks about “A Traitor to His Species,” and the illustrator Christian Robinson discusses his career in picture books.

Real-Life Political Violence Fuels Fiction in ‘The Abstainer’

Ian McGuire talks about his new novel, and Elisabeth Egan discusses Romy Hausmann’s “Dear Child.”

The Fate of Refugees After World War II

David Nasaw talks about “The Last Million,” and Carlos Lozada discusses “What Were We Thinking.”

C.I.A. Operatives in the Early Years of the Cold War

Scott Anderson discusses “The Quiet Americans,” and Peter Baker and Susan Glasser talk about “The Man Who Ran Washington.”

Brian Stelter on Fox News and Reed Hastings on Netflix

Stelter talks about "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth" and Reed Hastings discusses "No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention."

Kurt Andersen on ‘Evil Geniuses’

Andersen talks about his new book, and Lesley M.M. Blume discusses “Fallout.”

The Fictional World of Edward P. Jones

A.O. Scott talks about Jones’s work and the American experience, and Eric Jay Dolin discusses “A Furious Sky.”