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2024-11-15

  Patrick Radden Keefe on Taking "Say Nothing" From Book to Show

As part of The New York Times Book Review's project on the 100 Best Books published since the year 2000, Nick Hornby called "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" one of the "greatest literary achievements of the 21st cent...
  The New York Times author
2024-11-08

  What It's Like to Write a New John le Carré Novel

The works of John le Carré, who died in 2020, are among the most beloved thrillers of all time. For some, books like "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," "A Perfect Spy" and "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" are simply among their favorite works of litera...
  The New York Times author
2024-11-01

  Sally Rooney's "Intermezzo": Our Book Club Conversation

Sally Rooney is a writer people talk about. Since her first novel, “Conversations With Friends,” was published in 2017, Rooney has been hailed as a defining voice of the millennial generation because of her ability to capture the particular angst and c...
  The New York Times author
2024-10-26

  Two Horror Authors on the Scary Books You Should Be Reading

Halloween is just around the corner, so we turned to two great horror authors — Joe Hill and Stephen Graham Jones — for their recommendations of books to read this season.Books discussed:"Mean Spirited," by Nick Roberts"Maeve Fly," by CJ Leede"Come Clo...
  The New York Times author
2024-10-18

  The Ezra Klein Show: Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie's "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," has been nominated in the nonfiction category as part of this year's National Book Awards, which will take place in mid-November. This week, we are running Rushdie's conversation with Ezr...
  The New York Times author
2024-10-11

  Stanley Tucci on His Year in Eating and a Look at the National Book Awards

The actor-director-producer Stanley Tucci is also, famously, an avid eater, who has explored his enthusiasm for food through his travel show “Searching for Italy” and through two books: “Taste,” in 2021, and now a food diary, “What I Ate in One Year." ...
  The New York Times author
2024-10-04

  Jean Hanff Korelitz on "The Sequel"

In 2021, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz had a hit with “The Plot,” a book that was partly a mystery, partly a thriller and entirely a delicious sendup of the publishing industry. It told the tale of a once-promising writer, Jacob, who steals somebody...
  Hosted by Gilbert Cruz author
2024-09-27

  Book Club: 'The Hypocrite,' by Jo Hamya

Jo Hamya’s novel “The Hypocrite” follows a famous English novelist as he watches a new play by his daughter, Sophia, in London. The lights go down in the theater, and immediately the novelist realizes: The play is about him, the vacation he took with S...
  The New York Times author
2024-09-20

  The Fall Books We're Looking Forward To

This weekend marks the official start of autumn, so what better time to take a peek at the fall books we’re most excited to read? On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz chats with Joumana Khatib and Anna Dubenko about the upcoming season of reading and t...
  The New York Times author
2024-09-13

  Robert Caro on 50 Years of 'The Power Broker'

Robert Caro’s 1974 biography “The Power Broker” is a book befitting its subject, Robert Moses — the unelected parochial technocrat who used a series of appointed positions to entirely reshape New York City and its surrounding environment for generation...
  The New York Times author