Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Transcription,' by Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner’s slender new novel, “Transcription,” is just 130 pages long, yet it cracks open some of our most colossal and enduring philosophical questions. The novel is told in three parts. We open w...
30 Maj 47min
Matt Haig on ‘The Midnight Library,’ Mental Illness and Winnie-the-Pooh
Matt Haig was already several books into his career as a writer by the time he published “The Midnight Library” in 2020. One of those books, the 2015 memoir “Reasons to Stay Alive,” had even been a be...
15 Maj 42min
Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels
“Angel Down,” a grisly novel about World War I told in a single, almost 300-page-long sentence, was awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In a review for The New York Times, Ben H. Winters d...
8 Maj 59min
‘The Book Review’ Podcast Turns 20
Since its first episode in April 2006, the “Book Review” podcast has played host to hundreds of authors talking about their new works and possibly as many conversations about the best (and sometimes w...
1 Maj 1h 5min
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Renovation,' by Kenan Orhan
Dilara, the heroine of Kenan Orhan’s debut novel, is a Turkish exile living in Italy and undergoing a routine bathroom renovation that turns out to be not so routine: When the contractors leave, she s...
24 Apr 42min
The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading
How is it that a seven-book series written in Danish about a single day repeating over and over has become something of a sensation among the literary set? Since the English translations of Solvej Bal...
17 Apr 35min
Patrick Radden Keefe on the Mystery at the Center of ‘London Falling’
Patrick Radden Keefe joins “The Book Review” to discuss his new book, “London Falling,” which begins when a family loses a 19-year-old son, Zac Brettler, under mysterious circumstances. His parents ev...
10 Apr 34min
