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The Book Review

The Book Review

The New York Times 2 Episodes Aug 21, 2026

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.

Episodes

Why We Can’t Resist a Great Bookstore
Why We Can’t Resist a Great Bookstore Aug 21, 2026 00:26:03 What is it about a bookstore? You walk in planning to browse for a few minutes, and somehow an hour later you’re still wandering the stacks with an armful of books you can’t seem to put down. For this week’s episode, our guest host, MJ Franklin, and the producer Sarah Diamond take a field trip to a local bookstore, McNally Jackson Seaport, at the southern tip of Manhattan. There, they talk with th
This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)
This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore) Aug 14, 2026 00:45:29 Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The journalist Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent more than a decade interviewing dozens of experts while mastering the voluminous literature on the subject — some of it declassified only in recent years — for her 2024 book “Nuclear War: A Scenario,”

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