Revisiting 'Wisconsin Death Trip,' 50 Years Later
It's been 50 years since Michael Lesy's influential cult classic "Wisconsin Death Trip" was published. A documentary text of found material, the book gathered prosaic historical photos of Wisconsin re...
3 Mars 202323min
On Reading "A Wrinkle in Time"
Some books find us at the right age and in the right frame of mind to lodge an enduring hold on our imagination; these are the books we turn to again and again, which become the cherished classics of ...
24 Feb 202319min
Public Libraries, and Profiling Paul Harding
At a time when public libraries and librarians are facing budget headwinds and sometimes intense political scrutiny for the roles they play in their communities, the Times photo editor Erica Ackerberg...
17 Feb 202325min
"Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages"
Admit it: It's fun to look at other people's marriages — and all the more fun if those marriages are messy. In a new group biography, "Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages," the author Carmela ...
10 Feb 202321min
A Look Ahead at the Season's Big Books
How do you define a "big book"? It might be a new offering from a beloved author or a deep dive into a timely subject or a story that has generated unusual enthusiasm among editors and other early rea...
3 Feb 202321min
The Critics’ Picks: A Year in Reading
Last week’s podcast featured members of The New York Times’s Books staff discussing the Book Review’s picks for the best books of 2022. The paper’s staff book critics participated in that selection pr...
9 Dec 202229min
The 10 Best Books of 2022
Heads up! The Book Review podcast returns with a new episode this week, recorded Tuesday during a live event in which several of our editors and critics discussed the Book Review’s list of the year’s ...
2 Dec 202256min
Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein
For the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This week’s segments first appeared in 2019 and 2020, respectively.In their best-selling book “Sh...
24 Nov 202243min
