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The Book Review The New York Times
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4.1 • 3.2K Ratings
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The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading and what's going on in the literary world.
Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp
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Audiobooks are the Best
You love books. You love podcasts. Ergo, we assume you love audiobooks. This week we’ve devoted our entire episode to the form.
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Zadie Smith on Her New Historical Novel
Zadie Smith joins the podcast to talk about her new novel "The Fraud." And we talk about the recent controversy involving the National Book Awards and erstwhile host Drew Barrymore.
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Elon Musk's Biography and Profiling Naomi Klein
Times critic Jennifer Szalai talks about Walter Isaacson's biography of the world's richest man and her recent look at the writer and activist Naomi Klein.
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Talking to Stephen King and September Books to Check Out
Stephen King joins the podcast to talk about his new thriller "Holly." And Joumana Khatib gives us a look at six of the month's most anticipated releases.
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Amor Towles Sees Dead People
The novelist discusses his career and his recent essay about cadavers in crime fiction, and the actor Richard E. Grant talks about his memoir and his love of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
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What to Read in August
Sarah Lyall discusses a new thriller in which a scuba diver gets swallowed by a sperm whale and Joumana Khatib gives recommendations for five August books.
Customer Reviews
Disappointed
It took a while for Pamela Paul to hit her stride so I’ve kept listening in hopes that the new host and format would develop into another good podcast. But it seems he’s just filling the slot and doing the bare minimum until someone who really likes the job is hired. If so, I hope that happens soon.
SARAH LYALL & ZADIE SMITH: BRILLIANT
It really doesn’t get better than brilliant Sarah Lyall interviewing the extraordinary Zadie Smith. What a treat to hear the most intelligent and captivating conversation in the poduniverse. But why would you not give such a unique experience a full hour??? Please more in-depth Lyall and author interviews . Thank you
Elon Musk
This is a Book Review podcast, (not Sway), and you talk about Elon Musk rather than Walter Isaacson. I think he’s an extraordinary biographer—who could make the founder of Cinnabon sound as interesting as Henry Kissinger.