Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBook 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…
2 years, 1 month ago
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…
2 years, 1 month ago
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…
2 years, 1 month ago
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…
2 years, 2 months ago
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 …
2 years, 2 months ago
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 …
2 years, 2 months ago
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 …
2 years, 2 months ago
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…
2 years, 2 months ago
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…
2 years, 3 months ago
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…
2 years, 3 months ago