The Book Review

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The Book Review episodes

March 01, 2019 A Gripping Political Mystery in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe talks about “Say Nothing,” and Frans de Waal discusses “Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves.”
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1 hr 6 min
February 22, 2019 Seeking Silence
Gal Beckerman discusses “How to Disappear,” by Akiko Busch, and “Silence,” by Jane Brox; and Steve Luxenberg talks about “Separate.”
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52 min
February 15, 2019 A Class in ‘Dreyer’s English’
Benjamin Dreyer discusses his best-selling book about writing, and Thomas Mallon discusses “Landfall,” his new novel about the presidential administration of George W. Bush.
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1 hr 4 min
February 08, 2019 Marlon James Talks About His Epic New Trilogy
James discusses "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," and Stephanie Land talks about "Maid."
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50 min
February 01, 2019 Assessing the Facebook Problem
Roger McNamee talks about "Zucked," and Charles Finch discusses the season's best thrillers.
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58 min
January 25, 2019 Dani Shapiro on Her Surprising 'Inheritance'
Shapiro talks about her new best-selling memoir, and David Treuer discusses “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee.”
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1 hr 10 min
January 18, 2019 A New Novel Conjures Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman
A. O. Scott talks about Linn Ullmann’s “Unquiet,” and Judith Newman discusses new books about anxiety, mental illness and grief.
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51 min
January 11, 2019 How Curses Function in Literature
Julian Lucas talks about the role of curses in contemporary African literature, and Abby Ellin discusses "Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married."
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1 hr 11 min
January 04, 2019 Fugitive Slaves and the Road to the Civil War
Andrew Delbanco discusses “The War Before the War,” and Rob Dunn talks about “Never Home Alone.”
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58 min
December 28, 2018 Tyranny in Rome and Fake Drugs in Fiction
Yascha Mounk discusses Edward J. Watts's "Mortal Republic," and Jonathan Lethem talks about the surge of fictional psychotropic drugs in novels.
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1 hr 2 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.