This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)
We bring back an episode from our archives, in which Annie Jacobsen discusses her 2024 book “Nuclear War: A Scenario.”
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Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
From “Gone Girl” to “Mystic River,” Gilbert Cruz, Tina Jordan and Sarah Lyall revisit the books that changed the genre, discuss overlooked f...
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’
Douglas Stuart’s latest novel follows a profoundly isolated father and son, each grappling with long-held secrets.
Let’s Talk About the Best Books of the Year (So Far)
It’s time for our annual midyear check-in on the books that we can’t stop thinking about.
Sophie Elmhirst on the True Story of a Shipwrecked Couple
Host Gilbert Cruz's conversation from last year with author Sophie Elmhirst features "Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession and S...
This Author Says You Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by ‘The Odyssey’
First, a primer from the author of “Circe,” Madeline Miller. Then, A.O. Scott on all the genres inside the 3,000-year-old poem.
Jill Lepore on What to Read This Fourth of July
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Jill Lepore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, offers a reading list for the occasion. Then we r...
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Yesteryear,' by Caro Claire Burke
Burke’s best-selling novel, about a tradwife influencer with some surprises in store, is one of the buzziest books of 2026. On this episode,...
Art, Outrage and How the Culture Wars Began
Isaac Butler, an author and cultural historian, joined the “Book Review” podcast to discuss his new book, “The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art...
The Best Books of the 21st Century: Ryan Holiday on ‘The Road’
The best-selling author joined the “Book Review” podcast to discuss how his relationship to Cormac McCarthy’s novel changed after becoming a...
A Summer Book Recommendation Bonanza
From doppelgängers to dark academia, the Book Review editors share some of their most-anticipated titles.
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Transcription,' by Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner’s slender new novel, “Transcription,” is just 130 pages long, yet it cracks open some of our most colossal and enduring philosoph...
The Ezra Klein Show: Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness
Today we are delighted to share an episode from our colleagues on “The Ezra Klein Show,” originally published on March 31. Ezra interviewed...
Matt Haig on ‘The Midnight Library,’ Mental Illness and Winnie-the-Pooh
The best-selling author joins the “Book Review” podcast to discuss his new novel, “The Midnight Train.”
Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels
The crime novelist discusses her new memoir “True Crime.” Also, Daniel Kraus, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction, talks about...
‘The Book Review’ Podcast Turns 20
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...
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Renovation,' by Kenan Orhan
Dilara, the heroine of Kenan Orhan’s debut novel, is a Turkish exile living in Italy and undergoing a routine bathroom renovation that turns...
The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading
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 on the Mystery at the Center of ‘London Falling’
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...
23 Books We Are Looking Forward to This Spring
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...