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Book Club: Dolly Alderton's 'Good Material'

Episode 484

How to explain the British writer Dolly Alderton to an American audience? It might be best to let her work speak for itself — it certainly does! — bu…

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100 Years of Simon & Schuster

Episode 483

Simon & Schuster is not growing old quietly.

The venerable publishing house — one of the industry’s so-called Big 5 — is celebrating its 100th birthda…

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Looking Back at 50 Years of Stephen King

Episode 482

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel, “Carrie.” In the decades since, King has experimented with le…

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Books That Make Our Critics Laugh

Episode 481

Earlier this month, the Book Review’s staff critics — Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai — released a list of 22 novels they have fo…

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Talking to Tana French About Her New Series

Episode 480

If you're familiar with Tana French, it's likely for her Dublin Murder Squad series of crime novels that kicked off in 2007 with "In the Woods." But …

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Talking ‘Dune’: Book and Movies

Episode 479

Frank Herbert’s epic novel “Dune” and its successors have been entrenched in the science fiction and fantasy canon for almost six decades, a rite of …

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Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Erasure,’ by Percival Everett

Episode 478

It’s not often that the Academy Awards give the publishing world any gristle to chew on. But at this year’s Oscars ceremony — taking place on Sunday …

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Tommy Orange on His "There There" Sequel

Episode 477

Tommy Orange’s acclaimed debut novel, “There There” — one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2018 — centered on a group of characters who all conv…

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The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice

Episode 476

Tricia Romano’s new book, “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” is an oral history of New York’s late, great alternative weekly newspaper The Village Voice…

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Let's Talk About 'Demon Copperhead'

Episode 475

Barbara Kingsolver’s novel “Demon Copperhead,” a riff on “David Copperfield” that moves Charles Dickens’s story to contemporary Appalachia and grappl…

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