Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Switzy'
Emma Cline’s latest novel is about a man with dementia who has decided to end his life on his own terms.
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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...
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What to Read This Halloween, According to Two Best-Selling Writers
Leigh Bardugo and Paul Tremblay share the books that scared them as kids, the stories that still unnerve them and their recommendations for...
A Book Review Critics’ Roundtable
Jennifer Szalai, Alexandra Jacobs and Dwight Garner discuss their approach to reading and offer stacks and stacks of book recommendations.
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.”
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.
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.
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 f...
The Best Books of the 21st Century: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on ‘The Corrections’
If you were a reading adult in the early 2000s, you probably tackled, or at least heard about, “The Corrections,” Jonathan Franzen’s best-se...
It’s Time for a Big Ol’ Fall Book Preview
From horror to history to literary fiction, the Book Review editors discuss 31 titles that deserve a look.
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘London Falling’
Keefe’s new book explores a teenager’s mysterious death on the River Thames.
Why We Can’t Resist a Great Bookstore
We visit a local New York City bookstore, dive into The Times’s new bookstore crawl series, and recommend some of our favorite books about b...
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.”
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...