Book Review: Episodes
This week, Dominique Browning discusses a new biography about Brooke Astor, Motoko Rich has Notes from the Field, Jeremy McCarter tells us about the life of Marlon Brando, and Jennifer Schuessler has bestseller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
This week, Dominique Browning discusses a new biography about Brooke Astor, Motoko Rich has Notes from the Field, Jeremy McCarter tells us about the life of Marlon Brando, and Jennifer Schuessler has bestseller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
This week: The Times's David Carr discusses a new bio of Rupert Murdoch; Motoko Rich has Notes from the Field; Times reporter and editor Dana Canedy talks about her memoir, "A Journal for Jordan"; and Jennifer Schuessler has bestseller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
This week: Alex Witchel discusses Christopher Plummer's new memoir, Motoko Rich has Notes from the Field, Bruce Jay Friedman talks about his new collection of novellas, and Jennifer Schuessler has bestseller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
This week: The Book Review's Deputy Editor, Bob Harris, talks about the 10 Best Books of 2008; Motoko Rich has Notes From the Field, Lorraine Adams reviews a controversial novel about one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives, and Jennifer Schuessler has bestseller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
This week: Caroline Weber discusses great portraits from Vanity Fair, Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field, Charles McGrath talks about newly discovered verse by Bob Dylan, and bestseller news from Jennifer Schuessler. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
This week: Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field, an extended conversation with Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, and bestseller news from Jennifer Schuessler.
This week: George Packer on the strange life of V.S. Naipaul, Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field, Times' theater critic Charles Isherwood talks about Ziegfield's Follies, and bestseller news from Jennifer Schuessler.
This week: Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter on the life of George Plimpton, Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field, Roy Blount Jr. takes us through the alphabet, and bestseller news from Jennifer Schuessler.
This week: Novelist Jonathan Lethem on Roberto Bolaño, Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field, Julie Just on our special children's book issue, and bestseller news from Jennifer Schuessler.
This week: Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field, an extended conversation with John Updike, and bestseller news from Dwight Garner.
This week: Stacy Schiff on the career of Emily Post, Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field, Steven Heller reviews some new design books, and bestseller news from Dwight Garner.
This week: Cartoonist Jules Feiffer reminisces about his days at the Village Voice, the Times's Motoko Rich calls in from Frankfurt, Civil War historian James McPherson on President Lincoln's war powers, and Dwight Garner with bestseller news.
This week: Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey lead us through all 50 states, the Times' Motoko Rich talks about the book world, Vanity Fair's Bruce Handy discusses campaign biographies for kids, and Dwight Garner has bestseller news.
This week: The Times's Alex Kuczynski on Alec Baldwin's new book, Times writer-at-large Charles McGrath on a Nobel prize controversy, James Traub talks about General Petraeus, and best-seller news from Dwight Garner.
This week: The Times' Rome bureau chief, Rachel Donadio on a new memoir, Charles McGrath on the MacArthur Fellowships, reporter John Leland on a seventies classic, and best-seller news from Dwight Garner.
This week: Bernard Henri Levy discusses the crisis on the left, Times film critic AO Scott remembers David Foster Wallace, novelist David Gates on Phillip Roth's new book, and best-seller news from Dwight Garner.
This Week: Baghdad correspondent Dexter Filkins discusses his memoir, Times cultural reporter Patricia Cohen, backpage essayist Mick Sussman on "megalisters", and best-seller news from Dwight Garner.
This week, Christopher Buckley on his latest Washington DC satire, the Times' Motoko Rich on a new children's book series, Wesley Yang reviews Guyland by Michael Kimmel, and best-seller news from Dwight Garner.
This week, Maureen Dowd talks about a novel based on the life of Laura Bush, Notes from the Field with Rachel Donadio, Dave Itzkoff on the musical brain, and best-seller news from Dwight Garner.