The Book Review

By The New York TimesArts Books

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The Book Review episodes

May 10, 2019 The Real Life of a Diplomat, Told Like a Novel
George Packer talks about “Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century,” and Lori Gottlieb discusses “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.”
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1 hr 7 min
May 03, 2019 Laila Lalami on 'The Other Americans'
Lalami discusses her latest novel, and Jenny Odell talks about "How to Do Nothing."
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58 min
April 26, 2019 Connecting the Dots Between Reconstruction and Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks about “Stony the Road” and “Dark Sky Rising,” and David Wallace-Wells discusses “The Uninhabitable Earth.”
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1 hr 3 min
April 19, 2019 Robert Caro on How He Does It
The acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses talks about his new book, "Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing."
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1 hr 13 min
April 12, 2019 Ruth Reichl's Delicious New Memoir
Reichl discusses "Save Me the Plums," and Emily Bazelon talks about "Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration."
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1 hr 9 min
April 05, 2019 The Chernobyl Disaster in Full
Adam Higginbotham talks about his sweeping new history of the nuclear accident and its aftermath, and Nellie Bowles discusses Clive Thompson's "Coders."
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55 min
March 29, 2019 Preet Bharara on the Rule of Law
Bharara discusses “Doing Justice,” and Senator Doug Jones talks about “Bending Toward Justice.”
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56 min
March 22, 2019 The Life of Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas talks about “First,” his new biography of O’Connor, and Mitchell S. Jackson discusses “Survival Math.”
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1 hr 6 min
March 15, 2019 Isaac Mizrahi on His New Memoir
The fashion designer discusses “I.M.,” and David McCraw talks about “Truth in Our Times.”
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1 hr 5 min
March 08, 2019 A Violent Summer in Chicago
Alex Kotlowitz discusses “An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago,” and John Lanchester talks about his new novel, “The Wall.”
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1 hr

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.