The Book Review

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October 16, 2018 Barry Jenkins and Meg Wolitzer on Two of This Season's Novels on Screen
Jenkins talks about his adaptation of James Baldwin's "If Beale Street Could Talk," and Wolitzer discusses the adaptation of her novel "The Wife."
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52 min
October 12, 2018 Michael Lewis and Tana French on Their Latest Books
Lewis talks about "The Fifth Risk," and French discusses "The Witch Elm."
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1 hr 3 min
October 05, 2018 Kate Atkinson on 'Transcription'
Atkinson talks about her new novel, and Shane Bauer discusses "American Prison."
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51 min
September 28, 2018 The End of the ‘Struggle’
Daniel Mendelsohn discusses Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle,” and Jill Lepore talks about “These Truths: A History of the United States.”
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1 hr 2 min
September 21, 2018 Esi Edugyan on Her Booker-Shortlisted 'Washington Black'
Edugyan talks about her new novel, and Lisa Margonelli talks about “Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology.”
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1 hr
September 14, 2018 A Memoir From the Hard-Working ‘Heartland’
Sarah Smarsh talks about her new book, and Allan Lichtman discusses "The Embattled Vote in America."
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1 hr
September 07, 2018 'The Most Secretly Interesting Place in America'
Sam Anderson talks about “Boom Town,” his new book about Oklahoma City; and David Enrich and Andrew Ross Sorkin discuss finance in fiction, including in Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, “Lake Success.”
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1 hr 15 min
August 31, 2018 The Uses and Misuses of Identity
Kwame Anthony Appiah talks about “The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity,” and Jonathan Haidt discusses “The Coddling of the American Mind.”
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1 hr 13 min
August 24, 2018 Interrogating the Change Makers
Anand Giridharadas talks about his new book on the world of a global elite, and Kim Brooks discusses “Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear.”
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54 min
August 17, 2018 Rethinking the 'Tangled Tree' of Life
David Quammen discusses his new book about the science of evolution, and Andrea Gabor talks about “After the Education Wars.”
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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.