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The world's top authors and critics join host Pamela Paul 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 lite...
“Angel Down,” a grisly novel about World War I told in a single, almost 300-page-long sentence, was awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize for f...
Since its first episode in April 2006, the “Book Review” podcast has played host to hundreds of authors talking about their new works and po...
Dilara, the heroine of Kenan Orhan’s debut novel, is a Turkish exile living in Italy and undergoing a routine bathroom renovation that turns...
How is it that a seven-book series written in Danish about a single day repeating over and over has become something of a sensation among th...
Patrick Radden Keefe joins “The Book Review” to discuss his new book, “ London Falling ,” which begins when a family loses a 19-year-old son...
We have made it to April. We survived the snowstorms and the cold, and now that the days are getting longer, there’s more time to read. So t...
Tayari Jones’s new novel, “Kin,” follows two orphaned girls, Annie and Niecy, who grow up together in Louisiana in the 1950s. Annie was aban...
Andy Weir’s first time at the Hollywood rodeo was a singular trip. His debut novel, “The Martian,” went from self-published project to block...
Since the publication of her first novel, “Love Medicine,” in 1984, Louise Erdrich has written fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s bo...
For more than two decades, Bob Crawford has toured the country as the bassist for the Avett Brothers. But long before he began his career as...
Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” is a tale of star-crossed lovers: Catherine, the wild daughter of an aristocratic family, and Heathcliff,...
The latest film from the writer and director Clint Bentley, “Train Dreams,” is nominated for four Oscars, including best adapted screenplay....
For decades, the director Guillermo del Toro has built a career blending the grotesque and the beautiful in films like “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “T...
Julia Quinn published "The Duke and I," the first book in the 'Bridgerton' series, in 2000. Seven books and a quarter century later, its ada...
Keza MacDonald, the video games editor at The Guardian and author of the new book “Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked t...
Xenobe Purvis’s slim but powerful debut novel, “The Hounding,” opens with a jolt: “The girls, the infernal heat, a fresh-dead body. Marching...
The journalist, novelist and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman is best known for writing about rock music and pop culture in astute essay col...
A new year means new books are on the way! So many new books. On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks with fellow Book Review editor...
Virginia Evans’s debut novel, “The Correspondent,” was published last April and became one of the publishing industry’s heartwarming champio...
Ian McEwan’s latest novel, “What We Can Know,” is many things at once: It’s a science fiction imagining of a future world devastated by clim...
From political tell-alls to the continued triumph of romantasy novels, it’s been an eventful year in the publishing world. On this week’s ep...
Here we are in mid-December, which means that along with all of the other year-end lists we produce and avidly consume at this time each yea...
All year long, the staff of The New York Times Book Review conducts a running discussion over what belongs on its year-end Top 10 list. In t...
History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including...
Literature isn’t a horse race. Taste is subjective, and artistic value can’t be measured in terms of “winners" and “losers.” That doesn’t me...
Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story,” is many things at once. It’s a comprehensive biography of James Baldwin. It’s a nimble excavation...
On Nov. 10, 1975, during a calamitous storm, the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk below the waves of Lake Superior. All 29 men aboard went down with t...
“The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” by Stephen Graham Jones, is two things at once: a searching historical novel that examines America’s past sins...
May October never end! As Halloween approaches, we present you with two conversations from years past with great horror authors. Joe Hill, w...
It's October, which means it's time for scary books and scary movies. There's one person who is well known for both: Stephen King. Since his...
The novelist Brandon Taylor has been a force to reckon with right from the start: His debut, “Real Life,” was a finalist for the Booker Priz...
This week, the Book Review podcast presents an episode of The Sunday Special from early September. Book Review editor Gilbert Cruz talks wit...
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So opens Jane Austen’...
The best-selling science journalist Mary Roach has written about sex and death and the digestive system — basically, all of the topics that...
In last week’s episode of the Book Review podcast, host Gilbert Cruz and his fellow editor Joumana Khatib offered a preview of some of the f...
Every fall brings the promise of some of the year’s biggest books and this one is no different. On this week’s episode of the Book Review po...
Charlotte McConaghy’s latest novel, “Wild Dark Shore,” opens with an enigma: A mysterious, half-drowned woman washes ashore. The stranger’s...
Summer is slipping away and we are on break this week. But we have a fantastic rerun for you — our conversation with Min Jin Lee from last s...
Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The jou...
Summer is the season for road trips, and also for road trip stories. Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” may be the most famous example in American...
In this month’s installment of the Book Review Book Club, we’re discussing “The Catch,” the debut novel by the poet and memoirist Yrsa Daley...
We’re halfway through 2025, and we at the Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are...
Some time ago, the British journalist Sophie Elmhirst was reporting a story about people who try to escape the land and to live on the water...
“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself”: So reads one of the great opening lines in British literature, the first sentence of...
On this week's episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And New York Times Book Review p...
Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jaws” hit theaters 50 years ago this month, in June 1975, and became a phenomenon almost instantly. In some ways t...
In S.A. Cosby’s latest thriller, “King of Ashes,” a successful and fast-living financial adviser is called suddenly back to the small Virgin...
MJ Franklin, who hosts the Book Review podcast’s monthly book club, says that whenever someone asks him, “What should I read next?,” Yael va...
Alison Bechdel rose to fame as the creator of a long-running alt-weekly comic strip before jumping to an even wider audience by way of her c...
The biographer Ron Chernow has written about the Rockefellers and the Morgans. His book about George Washington won a Pulitzer Prize. His bo...