The Book Review

By The New York TimesArts Books

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December 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.
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1 hr 1 min
November 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.
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1 hr 15 min
November 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.”
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1 hr 10 min
November 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.”
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1 hr 7 min
November 08, 2019 Among the Trolls
Andrew Marantz talks about “Antisocial,” and Gail Collins discusses “No Stopping Us Now.”
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1 hr 4 min
November 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.
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55 min
October 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."
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1 hr 4 min
October 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.”
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1 hr 13 min
October 11, 2019 Are Cheap Clothes Ruining the Planet?
Dana Thomas discusses “Fashionopolis,” and Steven Greenhouse talks about “Beaten Down, Worked Up.”
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50 min
October 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."
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1 hr 3 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.