Welcome to Literary Award Season
Literature isn’t a horse race. Taste is subjective, and artistic value can’t be measured in terms of “winners" and “losers.”That doesn’t mean it’s not fun to try.The book world’s awards season officia...
22 Nov 202546min
Nicholas Boggs on Writing a James Baldwin Biography
Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story,” is many things at once. It’s a comprehensive biography of James Baldwin. It’s a nimble excavation of Baldwin’s work, filled with astute literary analysis of h...
14 Nov 202536min
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later
On Nov. 10, 1975, during a calamitous storm, the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk below the waves of Lake Superior. All 29 men aboard went down with the vessel. With no survivors and no eyewitnesses, there’s al...
7 Nov 202539min
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 a gory horror thriller.The book opens in 2012, when...
31 Okt 202545min
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 latest, "King Sorrow," is out now, recommends several g...
24 Okt 202547min
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 novel, "Carrie," was published in 1974 and adapted in...
17 Okt 202553min
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, and he quickly followed that up with two other bo...
10 Okt 202540min
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 word lover Sadie Stein and the author Louis Sachar (...
3 Okt 202539min
