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Book Review Podcast
Sam Anderson On “IQ84” by Haruki Murakami
The Ten Best Books of 2011
The 100 Notable Books of 2011
David McCullough's New Book; the Wall Street Implosion; Best Seller News
Erik Larson’s new best-seller; Emily Gould on “Your Voice in My Head,” the new memoir by Emma Forrest
Eleanor Henderson, Author of “Ten Thousand Saints”; Asti Hustvedt, Author of “Medical Muses”
The debut of the 'The Mechanic Muse' column; Andrew Delbarco on "Mightier Than the Sword" by David S. Reynolds; bestseller news
A biography of Vincent Van Gogh and the Big City Book Club
A history of the papacy, life with Stieg Larsson, notes from the field and best-seller news
Frank Rich talks about the life of film critic Pauline Kael; Richard Brookhiser discusses his new biography of James Madison; best-seller news.
Louisa Thomas on her book, “Conscience” and Katie Roiphe on Pamela Haag’s “Marriage Confidential”
Janet Reitman's "Inside Scientology" and Adam Ross on His New Story collection, "Ladies and Gentlemen"
Novelist John Banville, also known as Benjamin Black; Esmeralda Santiago on her new book, "Conquistadora"; notes from the field; and best-seller news.
Tom Perrotta's "The Leftovers"; Erica Heller on her father, "Catch-22" author, Joseph Heller; best-seller news
The search for the Garden of Eden; "A Book of Secrets" by Michael Holroyd; and bestseller news.
Amy Waldman's "The Submission"; Holland Cotter on the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960's; back-to-school reading; best-seller news
Touré talks about his new book, “Who’s Afraid of Post Blackness?”; Maureen Dowd reviews the new memoir by film critic Roger Ebert; and best-seller news.
This week, historian David Greenberg assesses Ann Beattie’s new novel, “Mrs. Nixon: A Life”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Alexander Star takes an anthropological view of Afghanistan; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news.
Op-Ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman, co-author of “That Used to Be Us,” talks about America’s decline; Bill Keller on Christopher Hitchens; best-seller news.
Nicholson Baker’s “House of Holes”; Deborah Soloman on the letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz; best-seller news
Stephen Greenblatt on the Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius; Andre Aciman discusses his new collection of travel essays; and Jacques Steinberg profiles on his book “You Are An Ironman”.
This week, John Lewis Gaddis on George F. Kennan; Pamela Paul and children’s books legend, Chris Van Allsburg; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles on best-seller news.
Helen Schulman on her novel, "The Beautiful Life"; how computers reveal the jargon of fiction; best-seller news.
The life and inventions of Hedy Lamarr and a sequel to “Pride and Prejudice”
The Times’s executive editor Jill Abramson on her new book, “The Puppy Diaries”; Helen Schulman’s “This Beautiful Life”; the science of the human brain; best-seller news
Susan Orlean on her book, “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend”; Steven Heller discusses his latest Visuals column; best-seller news.
Leah Cohen on her new novel, “The Grief of Others”; the art of children’s books; and best-seller news.
Gary Bass talks about Philip Taubman’s book “ThePartnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb”; Louisa Thomas discusses “Some of My Lives,” a memoir by Rosamond Bernier; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
John Horgan on Robert Trivers’s “The Folly of Fools” and best-seller news.
John Lithgow discusses his new memoir, “An Actor’s Education”; Joe Nocera reviews Ron Suskind’s “Confidence Men”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
Book Review
Randall Kennedy’s “The Persistence of the Color Line”; Ginia Bellafante on the Big City Book Club; best-seller news
Harvard scholar Randall Kennedy, columnist Ginia Bellafante, Julie Bosman and Jennifer Schuessler. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
Sam Tanenhaus Interview
Harold Bloom on His Life and Work; Comedian Albert Brooks; and Best-Seller News
Henry Kissinger on Otto Von Bismarck and a dictionary of slang.
Meghan O'Rourke on her new memoir, "The Long Goodbye" and Jennifer Schuessler discusses David Foster Wallace and the I.R.S.
NYT: Book Review for 02/27/09
NYT: Book Review for 08/14/09
NYT: Book Review for 02/06/09
NYT: Book Review for 07/31/09
A new biography of Socrates and introducing our new Children's Book Editor
Examining classics of Western literature; novelists as philosophers; and be
NYT: Book Review for 09/18/09
NYT: Book Review for 10/16/09
Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" and Allison Pearson's new nove
Adam Goodheart on the Civil War
Book Review for 01/23/09
NYT: Book Update for 2/13/2009
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