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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.

Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp

The Book Review The New York Times

    • Arts
    • 4.1 • 3.3K Ratings

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.

Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp

    Talking to Tana French About Her New Series

    Talking to Tana French About Her New Series

    The great Irish crime novelist Tana French joins Sarah Lyall to talk about her new novel "The Hunter," a sequel to 2020's "The Searcher."

    • 43 min
    Talking ‘Dune’: Book and Movies

    Talking ‘Dune’: Book and Movies

    The Times’s critic Alissa Wilkinson discusses Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel and Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptations.

    • 39 min
    Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Erasure,’ by Percival Everett

    Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Erasure,’ by Percival Everett

    A scathing satire about race, publishing and identity politics, Everett’s acclaimed 2001 novel is the basis of the Oscar-nominated movie “American Fiction.”

    • 44 min
    Tommy Orange on His "There There" Sequel

    Tommy Orange on His "There There" Sequel

    Tommy Orange’s acclaimed debut novel, “There There” centered on a group of characters who all converge on an Indigenous powwow in modern-day Oakland, Calif. His follow-up, “Wandering Stars,” is both a prequel and a sequel to that book. This week, Orange visits the podcast to discuss his new work as well as the book he has read most in his life, Clarice Lispector's "The Hour of the Star."

    • 37 min
    The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice

    The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice

    Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”

    • 36 min
    Let's Talk About 'Demon Copperhead'

    Let's Talk About 'Demon Copperhead'

    On this week's episode, a roundtable conversation about Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead,” a riff on “David Copperfield” that moves Charles Dickens’s story to contemporary Appalachia and grapples with topics from poverty to ambition to opioid addiction.

    • 42 min

Customer Reviews

4.1 out of 5
3.3K Ratings

3.3K Ratings

K Uhuru ,

Still good but room for improvement

I still find smart and interesting discussions here but I miss news from the publishing world and especially miss hearing what people at the Books desk are reading,

Evsbee ,

New format

New format seems to get a lot of flack but I like it well enough 🤷‍♂️

Travelbit ,

disappointed

I agree with the many recent reviews about the downhill slide of this podcast. I keep waiting for the NYT to respond to their long term followers and make some changes. They could start by replacing Cruz.

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