The Book Review

By The New York TimesArts Books

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The Book Review episodes

February 14, 2020 A History of Seduction
Clement Knox talks about “Seduction,” and Elisabeth Egan discusses Amina Cain’s “Indelicacy.”
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43 min
February 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.”
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1 hr 10 min
January 31, 2020 The Paradoxes of Nuclear War
Fred Kaplan discusses “The Bomb,” and Sarah Lyall talks about new thrillers.
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1 hr 3 min
January 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.”
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1 hr 1 min
January 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.”
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57 min
January 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.
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55 min
January 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.
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54 min
December 27, 2019 Ralph Ellison’s Life in Letters
Saidiya Hartman talks about Ellison’s correspondence, and Olaf Olafsson discusses his new novel, “The Sacrament.”
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50 min
December 20, 2019 Times Critics Talk About Their Year-End Lists
Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai on the top books of 2019.
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42 min
December 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.”
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58 min

About The Book Review

From the publisher's feed

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.