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Back to SearchHow a Wildfire Sent Pico Iyer in Search of Silence
Decades ago, after he lost in home in a California wildfire, the travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer started to go to a small monastery in Big Sur i…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Books We’re Excited About in Early 2025
And we're back! Happy new year, readers. On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib talk about some of the upcoming books they’re most a…
1 year, 4 months ago
The 20th Anniversary of "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell"
The Book Review podcast is off for the holidays, but please enjoy this episode of the The New York Times's Culture Desk show from earlier this fall.
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1 year, 5 months ago
Book Club: "Small Things Like These," by Claire Keegan
Clare Keegan's slim 2021 novella about one Irishman's crisis of conscience during the Christmas season, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, h…
1 year, 5 months ago
Our Book Critics On Their Year in Reading
Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs — staff critics for The New York Times Book Review — join host Gilbert Cruz to look back on highl…
1 year, 5 months ago
Book Club: Dolly Alderton's 'Good Material' (Rerun)
Episode 514
Following our Top 10 Books of 2024 episode, we are re-running our book club discussion about one of the novels on our year-end list: "Good Material."…
1 year, 5 months ago
The 10 Best Books of 2024
Don't let anyone tell you differently — end of year list time is a wonderful time, indeed. And, as we do every December, we are ready to discuss the …
1 year, 5 months ago
Book Club: 'James,' by Percival Everett (Rerun)
The broad outlines of "James" will be immediately familiar to anyone with even a basic knowledge of American literature: A boy named Huckleberry Finn…
1 year, 6 months ago
Book Club: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
It begins with one of the most iconic lines in literature: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember…
1 year, 6 months ago
Patrick Radden Keefe on Taking "Say Nothing" From Book to Show
As part of The New York Times Book Review's project on the 100 Best Books published since the year 2000, Nick Hornby called "Say Nothing: A True Stor…
1 year, 6 months ago