The Book Review

One Factory and the Bigger Story It Tells

Farah Stockman talks about “American Made,” and Benjamín Labatut discusses “When We Cease to Understand the World.”

Andrea Elliott on ‘Invisible Child’

Elliott talks about her new book, and Phoebe Robinson discusses “Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes.”

Randall Kennedy on 'Say It Loud!'

Kennedy discusses his new essay collection, and Mary Roach talks about “Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.”

Brandon Taylor on the Sally Rooney Phenomenon

Taylor talks about Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” and David Rooney discusses “About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks.”

A.O. Scott Talks About William Maxwell

Scott discusses the novelist and story writer, and Eyal Press talks about “Dirty Work.”

Dana Spiotta Talks About ‘Wayward’

Spiotta discusses her latest novel, and Ash Davidson talks about her debut, “Damnation Spring.”

Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Devastating Novel

Omar El Akkad talks about “What Strange Paradise,” and Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang talk about Facebook and “An Ugly Truth.”

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.”