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Assessing the Facebook Problem
Episode 228
Roger McNamee talks about "Zucked," and Charles Finch discusses the season's best thrillers.
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7 years, 7 months ago
Dani Shapiro on Her Surprising 'Inheritance'
Episode 227
Shapiro talks about her new best-selling memoir, and David Treuer discusses “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee.”
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7 years, 7 months ago
A New Novel Conjures Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman
Episode 226
A. O. Scott talks about Linn Ullmann’s “Unquiet,” and Judith Newman discusses new books about anxiety, mental illness and grief.
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7 years, 7 months ago
How Curses Function in Literature
Episode 225
Julian Lucas talks about the role of curses in contemporary African literature, and Abby Ellin discusses "Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and …
7 years, 7 months ago
Fugitive Slaves and the Road to the Civil War
Episode 224
Andrew Delbanco discusses “The War Before the War,” and Rob Dunn talks about “Never Home Alone.”
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7 years, 8 months ago
Tyranny in Rome and Fake Drugs in Fiction
Episode 223
Yascha Mounk discusses Edward J. Watts's "Mortal Republic," and Jonathan Lethem talks about the surge of fictional psychotropic drugs in novels.
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7 years, 8 months ago
Isabel Wilkerson Talks About Michelle Obama’s Memoir
Episode 222
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian discusses the former first lady’s story, and Helen Schulman talks about her novel “Come With Me.”
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7 years, 8 months ago
Poetry & Politics
Episode 221
The Book Review’s poetry editor, Gregory Cowles, discusses Tracy K. Smith’s essay about political poetry and more from this week’s special issue; and…
7 years, 8 months ago
Immaturity in American Politics
Episode 220
Alan Wolfe discusses “The Politics of Petulance,” and Nadja Spiegelman talks about two newly published books by Lucia Berlin, “Evening in Paradise” a…
7 years, 9 months ago
Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2018
Episode 219
On a special episode of the podcast, taped live, editors from The New York Times discuss the Book Review’s list of the year’s outstanding fiction and…
7 years, 9 months ago