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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 …
6 months, 4 weeks 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…
7 months 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…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 2 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…
7 months, 3 weeks 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-…
8 months 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 …
8 months, 1 week 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…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
10 Novels We're Looking Forward To This Fall
Every fall brings the promise of some of the year’s biggest books and this one is no different. On this week’s episode of the Book Review podcast, th…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Wild Dark Shore,' by Charlotte McConaghy
Charlotte McConaghy’s latest novel, “Wild Dark Shore,” opens with an enigma: A mysterious, half-drowned woman washes ashore.
The stranger’s name is Ro…
9 months, 1 week ago