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The Book Review

Podcast Series 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.

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Series Episodes

A Book Review Critics’ Roundtable Playing

A Book Review Critics’ Roundtable

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Jennifer Szalai, Alexandra Jacobs and Dwight Garner discuss their approach to reading and offer stacks and stacks of book recommendations.

41 mins

16 October Finished

Min Jin Lee Wants Us to Rethink Education Playing

Min Jin Lee Wants Us to Rethink Education

After almost a decade away, the author of “Pachinko” is back with her latest tale about the Korean diaspora, “American Hagwon.”

56 mins

9 October Finished

Decades Later, Stephen King Is Finishing What He and Peter Straub Started Playing

Decades Later, Stephen King Is Finishing What He and Peter Straub Started

The author speaks about his new book, “Other Worlds Than These,” which completes a trilogy he began with his friend and co-writer in 1984.

36 mins

2 October Finished

Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Etna,’ by Paul Yoon Playing

Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Etna,’ by Paul Yoon

Yoon’s latest novel is about a bomb-sniffing dog trying to make it home after a war.

55 mins

26 September Finished

John Green Knows a True Hollywood Ending is Complicated Playing

John Green Knows a True Hollywood Ending is Complicated

Critic Dwight Garner talks about his review of Marlon James's “The Disappearers,” and then John Green speaks about writing his first novel for adults, "Hollywood, Ending."

57 mins

18 September Finished

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