Podcast Episodes

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…

4 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…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter'

“The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” by Stephen Graham Jones, is two things at once: a searching historical novel that examines America’s past sins and also …

5 months ago

Joe Hill's Scary Book Recs and Victor LaValle on "The Haunting of Hill House" (Rerun)

May October never end! As Halloween approaches, we present you with two conversations from years past with great horror authors. Joe Hill, whose late…

5 months, 1 week ago

Stephen King Isn't Always Scary (with Sean Fennessey)

It's October, which means it's time for scary books and scary movies. There's one person who is well known for both: Stephen King. Since his first no…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Brandon Taylor On His New Novel, 'Minor Black Figures'

The novelist Brandon Taylor has been a force to reckon with right from the start: His debut, “Real Life,” was a finalist for the Booker Prize in 2020…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Sunday Special: The Books We Read in School

This week, the Book Review podcast presents an episode of The Sunday Special from early September.

Book Review editor Gilbert Cruz talks with fellow w…

6 months ago

Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Pride and Prejudice'

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

So opens Jane Austen’s Regency-…

6 months, 1 week ago

Mary Roach Loves Writing About Weird Science

The best-selling science journalist Mary Roach has written about sex and death and the digestive system — basically, all of the topics that children …

6 months, 2 weeks ago

17 Nonfiction Books We’re Looking Forward to This Fall

In last week’s episode of the Book Review podcast, host Gilbert Cruz and his fellow editor Joumana Khatib offered a preview of some of the fall’s mos…

6 months, 3 weeks ago