Book Review
By The New York Times
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Podcast Description
The world's top authors and critics join Sunday Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus in lively conversations about books, arts and ideas.
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Michael Lind talks about his economic history of the United States, “Land of Promise”; John Leland discusses a biography of Richard Brautigan; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Joe Klein talks about Jonah Goldberg’s “The Tyranny of Clichés”; Jeff Shesol discusses Eric Alterman’s history of liberalism from the New Deal to the present; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Judith Newman discusses Anne Enright’s memoir “Making Babies”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Pamela Paul talks about children’s books; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Robert Caro discusses the new volume in his series about Lyndon Johnson; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Charlotte Rogan talks about her debut novel, “The Lifeboat”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Nell Freudenberger discusses “The Newlyweds,” her new novel; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; T. M. Luhrmann talks about how evangelical Christians relate to God; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Frank Langella discusses his new memoir; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Kevin Young talks about his book “The Grey Album”; Andrew Delbanco on the essays of Marilynne Robinson; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Michael Kranish and Scott Helman discuss their biography of Mitt Romney; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Jeremy Denk talks about the sounds of nature; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Elaine Pagels discusses the Book of Revelation; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Zbigniew Brzezinski on America and the crisis of global power; Anne Sebba talks about the life of Wallis Simpson; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Mark Leyner discusses his new novel, “The Sugar Frosted Nutsack”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Meg Wolitzer on the cultural reception of fiction written by women; Tim Weiner talks about his new history of the F.B.I.; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Review Podcast | This week, Jeanette Winterson discusses her new memoir; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Jonathan Haidt talks about his new book, “The Righteous Mind”; Charles McGrath revisits a golden age of golf; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
My favorite podcast!
I love Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the NY Times Book Review and his best buddy Dwight Gardner on the NYTimes best sellers. And the Tanenhaus/author interviews are the best. So even in Canada, I bow down to you guys!
Great, but WAY too many ads.
I love this Podcast, but lately there have been WAY too many ads. I know the Podcast is free, and I'm willing to listen to commercials within reason. Lately, however, there have been 4 or 5 ads per episode! Often, it's the same two ads repeating over and over again. This almost ruins the Podcast for me, and so I hope they rethink this strategy soon. Just awful.
Huck Finn censored, the NYT Book Review just shrugs
The interviews have been getting less in-depth and now play basically like ad spots with the more interesting questions ignored, EVEN when they are raised in the course of the interview. No time for intelligence, here.
But more importantly, any literary review that can countenance the censoring of Huck Finn while barely blinking, and treating objections to this appalling trend as if they are merely idle talk 'on the internet' has clearly lost the plot of literature as a whole, and doesn't deserve the bits it's syndicated on. Much as the NYT newspaper itself is a pale shadow of its former investigative self, it seems the book reviewers also have lost their taste for telling truth to power. Such is perhaps par for the course in America now, but I don't have to listen to it.
The New York Times Book Review doesn't take freedom of speech seriously and that's no last bastion of literature at all -- it's a fading footnote, best forgotten. It seems it falls to the new media critics to carry the torch of freedom for authors like Mark Twain. We value the history and integrity of your medium more than you do yourselves. That's embarrassing for you -- you should be ashamed.
