Podcast Episodes

The Books We're Excited About in Early 2026

A new year means new books are on the way! So many new books. On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks with fellow Book Review editors Joumana…

4 months, 1 week ago

'The Correspondent' Author Virginia Evans On Her Breakout Year

Virginia Evans’s debut novel, “The Correspondent,” was published last April and became one of the publishing industry’s heartwarming champions of 202…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘What We Can Know’

Ian McEwan’s latest novel, “What We Can Know,” is many things at once: It’s a science fiction imagining of a future world devastated by climate catas…

5 months ago

What Did 2025 Mean for Books?

From political tell-alls to the continued triumph of romantasy novels, it’s been an eventful year in the publishing world. On this week’s episode, ho…

5 months, 1 week ago

Our Book Critics on Their 2025 in Reading

Here we are in mid-December, which means that along with all of the other year-end lists we produce and avidly consume at this time each year, The Ne…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

The 10 Best Books of 2025

All year long, the staff of The New York Times Book Review conducts a running discussion over what belongs on its year-end Top 10 list. In this week’…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Hamnet'

History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including a son na…

6 months ago

Welcome to Literary Award Season

Literature isn’t a horse race. Taste is subjective, and artistic value can’t be measured in terms of “winners" and “losers.”

That doesn’t mean it’s no…

6 months, 1 week ago

Nicholas Boggs on Writing a James Baldwin Biography

Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story,” is many things at once. It’s a comprehensive biography of James Baldwin. It’s a nimble excavation of Baldwi…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later

On Nov. 10, 1975, during a calamitous storm, the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk below the waves of Lake Superior. All 29 men aboard went down with the vessel…

6 months, 3 weeks ago