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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 philosophical ques…
5 hours ago
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 author Mi…
1 week ago
Matt Haig on ‘The Midnight Library,’ Mental Illness and Winnie-the-Pooh
Matt Haig was already several books into his career as a writer by the time he published “The Midnight Library” in 2020. One of those books, the 2015…
2 weeks ago
Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels
“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 fiction. I…
3 weeks ago
‘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 possibly as…
4 weeks ago
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 out to b…
1 month ago
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 the literar…
1 month, 1 week ago
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, Zac Brett…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
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 this week,…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Kin,' by Tayari Jones
Episode 519
Tayari Jones’s new novel, “Kin,” follows two orphaned girls, Annie and Niecy, who grow up together in Louisiana in the 1950s. Annie was abandoned as …
2 months ago