The Book Review

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The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading and what's going on in the literary world. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp

  • 51 minutes 41 seconds
    Book Club: "Small Things Like These," by Claire Keegan

    Clare Keegan's slim 2021 novella about one Irishman's crisis of conscience during the Christmas season, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has also been adapted into a film starring Cillian Murphy. In this week’s episode, MJ Franklin discusses the book with his colleagues Joumana Khatib, Lauren Christensen, and Elisabeth Egan.  

    Keegan's book was also one of The New York Times Book Review's 100 best books of the 21st century. As we wrote, "Not a word is wasted in Keegan’s small, burnished gem of a novel, a sort of Dickensian miniature centered on the son of an unwed mother who has grown up to become a respectable coal and timber merchant with a family of his own in 1985 Ireland. Moralistically, though, it might as well be the Middle Ages as he reckons with the ongoing sins of the Catholic Church and the everyday tragedies wrought by repression, fear and rank hypocrisy."


     

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    20 December 2024, 4:49 pm
  • 31 minutes 39 seconds
    Our Book Critics On Their Year in Reading

    Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs — staff critics for The New York Times Book Review — join host Gilbert Cruz to look back on highlights from their year in books.

    Books discussed:

    "Intermezzo," by Sally Rooney

    "All Fours," by Miranda July

    "You Dreamed of Empires," by Álvaro Enrigue

    "When the Clock Broke," by John Ganz

    "Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring," by Brad Gooch

    "Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius," by Carrie Courogen

    "My Beloved Monster," by Caleb Carr

    "Rejection," by Tony Tulathimutte

    "Beautyland," by Marie-Helene Bertino

    "Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society," by Daniel Chandler

    "Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs and Opera," by Ricky Ian Gordon

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    13 December 2024, 8:15 pm
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