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Times Critics Talk About Their Year-End Lists
Episode 274
Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai on the top books of 2019.
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6 years, 5 months ago
Poems About the Challenges of Life After Prison
Episode 273
Reginald Dwayne Betts talks about “Felon,” and Jung Chang discusses “Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister.”
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6 years, 5 months ago
The Life of Mike Nichols
Episode 272
Ash Carter and Sam Kashner discuss their new oral history of the director, and Alexandra Jacobs talks about her biography of Elaine Stritch.
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6 years, 5 months ago
10 Best Books of 2019
Episode 271
On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times Book Review discuss this year’s outstanding fiction and nonfiction. …
6 years, 6 months ago
The Authorized Life of the Iron Lady
Episode 270
Charles Moore discusses the final volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, and Adrienne Brodeur talks about her memoir, “Wild Game.”
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6 years, 6 months ago
Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley
Episode 269
Nicholas Buccola talks about “The Fire Is Upon Us,” and Saeed Jones discusses “How We Fight for Our Lives.”
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6 years, 6 months ago
Among the Trolls
Episode 268
Andrew Marantz talks about “Antisocial,” and Gail Collins discusses “No Stopping Us Now.”
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6 years, 6 months ago
The Life of Thomas Edison
Episode 267
David Oshinsky talks about Edmund Morris’s “Edison,” and Tina Jordan discusses new memoirs by Demi Moore, Julie Andrews and Carly Simon.
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6 years, 6 months ago
John Lithgow on His Satirical Poems
Episode 266
The actor talks about "Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse," and Leigh Bardugo discusses "Ninth House."
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6 years, 7 months ago
Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’
Episode 265
Williams talks about his new memoir, “Self-Portrait in Black and White,” and Stephen Kinzer discusses “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA…
6 years, 7 months ago