The Book Review

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The Book Review

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. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Adapting the Twists and Turns of ‘Conclave’

    How the novel became an Oscar-nominated film.

    23 min

  2. 6 DAYS AGO

    Is Bob Dylan Still a ‘Complete Unknown’?

    The director James Mangold discusses the things we may never understand about the folk legend.

    23 min

  3. 7 FEB • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    How ‘Nickel Boys’ Became One of the Year’s Most Visually Striking Films

    The director RaMell Ross on adapting Colson Whitehead’s prize-winning novel.

    24 min

  4. 31 JAN • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Book Club: Let’s Talk About Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’

    This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion.

    49 min

  5. 24 JAN • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Alafair Burke On Writing Crime Novels and Teaching Law

    In Alafair Burke’s new thriller, “The Note,” three friends are vacationing together in the Hamptons when they have an unpleasant run-in with a couple of strangers and decide to exact drunken, petty revenge. But the prank they pull — a note reading “He’s cheating on you” — snowballs, eventually embroiling them in a missing-persons investigation and forcing each woman to wonder what dark secrets her friends are hiding. Burke joins host Gilbert Cruz and talks about how she came up with the idea for “The Note,” and how she goes about writing her books in general.

    36 min

  6. 17 JAN • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    How a Wildfire Sent Pico Iyer in Search of Silence

    Decades ago, after he lost in home in a California wildfire, the travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer started to go to a small monastery in Big Sur in search of solitude. On this week's episode, he discusses those retreats, which he writes about in his new book "Aflame: Learning from Silence."

    45 min

  7. 10 JAN • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    The Books We’re Excited About in Early 2025

    And we're back! Happy new year, readers. On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib talk about some of the upcoming books they’re most anticipating over the next several months.

    39 min

  8. 27/12/2024 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    The 20th Anniversary of "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell"

    The Book Review podcast is off for the holidays, but please enjoy this episode of the The New York Times's Culture Desk show from earlier this fall in which reporter Alexandra Alter talks to author Susanna Clarke upon the 20th anniversary of her masterful fantasy novel “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.”

    18 min
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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. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp

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  • Channel
    The New York Times
  • Creator
    The New York Times
  • Years Active
    2006 - 2025
  • Episodes
    527
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    Clean
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    © 2023 The New York Times Company
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    The Book Review
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    The New York Times Company

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