The Best Books of the 21st Century: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on ‘The Corrections’
If you were a reading adult in the early 2000s, you probably tackled, or at least heard about, “The Corrections,” Jonathan Franzen’s best-selling and much discussed book.The novel won the National Boo...
11 Sep 47min
It’s Time for a Big Ol’ Fall Book Preview
Jordan Baker said it best: “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”In just one short sentence, the character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” sums up that wonderful feel...
4 Sep 49min
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘London Falling’
At the center of Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book, “London Falling,” is a mystery: In 2019, a young man named Zac Brettler disappeared, and a few days later his body was found in the Thames River. Surv...
29 Aug 54min
Why We Can’t Resist a Great Bookstore
What is it about a bookstore? You walk in planning to browse for a few minutes, and somehow an hour later you’re still wandering the stacks with an armful of books you can’t seem to put down. For this...
21 Aug 26min
This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)
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 Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent ...
14 Aug 45min
Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
What are the best thrillers published since 2000? That was the question that the team at The New York Times’s Book Review posed to hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrill...
5 Aug 51min
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’
Early in Douglas Stuart’s new novel, “John of John,” the Booker Prize-winning author describes a peculiar irony: “What skinned him was that the closer he got to home, the more lost he felt.” It’s a pa...
1 Aug 55min
Let’s Talk About the Best Books of the Year (So Far)
The editors at The New York Times Book Review spend almost the entire year discussing, debating and sometimes arguing about the year’s best books. We’re halfway through 2026, which means it’s time for...
24 Jul 39min
