Podcast Episodes

Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Switzy'

David Hastings is a retired business executive on a grim mission: He’s going to end his life.

That’s the dramatic setup of Emma Cline’s latest novel, …

1 day, 21 hours ago

What to Read This Halloween, According to Two Best-Selling Writers

Halloween is the season for scary stories, but what actually makes a book frightening? And where should you start if you’re not already a horror read…

1 week, 2 days ago

A Book Review Critics’ Roundtable

As much as we love hearing from authors on “The Book Review” podcast, there are precious few who have read more than our staff book critics — Jennife…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Min Jin Lee Wants Us to Rethink Education

For Min Jin Lee, the process of writing fiction usually begins with a deep dive into reality. She spends years researching, traveling and interviewin…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

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

There are few living writers as closely associated with a genre as Stephen King is with horror. Over a career spanning more than 50 years, 70 novels …

4 weeks, 2 days ago

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

Paul Yoon’s new novel, “Etna,” follows a haunted, battle-scarred war veteran who wants desperately to go home. He also happens to be a dog — a mixed-…

1 month ago

John Green Knows a True Hollywood Ending is Complicated

MJ Franklin is in the host chair this week, in for Gilbert Cruz. MJ spoke with New York Times book critic Dwight Garner about Marlon James’s new nove…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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-selling and…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

It’s Time for a Big Ol’ Fall Book Preview

Jordan Baker said it best: “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

In just one short sentence, the character in F. Scott Fitzgera…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘London Falling’

At the center of Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book, “London Falling,” is a mystery: In 2019, a young man named Zac Brettler disappeared, and a few days…

2 months ago