Podcast Episodes

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: 'Pachinko' (Rerun)

Summer is slipping away and we are on break this week. But we have a fantastic rerun for you — our conversation with Min Jin Lee from last summer, wh…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like

Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next?

The journalist An…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

It's Still Summer. Let's Talk Road Trip Books.

Summer is the season for road trips, and also for road trip stories. Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” may be the most famous example in American literatu…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Catch,' by Yrsa Daley-Ward

In this month’s installment of the Book Review Book Club, we’re discussing “The Catch,” the debut novel by the poet and memoirist Yrsa Daley-Ward. Th…

10 months ago

The Best Books of the Year (So Far)

We’re halfway through 2025, and we at the Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good…

10 months, 1 week ago

The True Story of a Married Couple Stranded at Sea

Some time ago, the British journalist Sophie Elmhirst was reporting a story about people who try to escape the land and to live on the water. “I foun…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Mrs. Dalloway" at 100

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself”: So reads one of the great opening lines in British literature, the first sentence of Virginia…

11 months ago

A.O. Scott on the Joy of Close Reading Poetry

On this week's episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And New York Times Book Review poetry edi…

11 months, 1 week ago

50 Years After ‘Jaws’ Terrified Filmgoers, a Reporter Looks Back

Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jaws” hit theaters 50 years ago this month, in June 1975, and became a phenomenon almost instantly. In some ways that was n…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

S.A. Cosby on Writing Southern Crime Fiction

In S.A. Cosby’s latest thriller, “King of Ashes,” a successful and fast-living financial adviser is called suddenly back to the small Virginia hometo…

11 months, 3 weeks ago