The Book Review

The Book Review

The New York Times

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Country USA

Genres Arts, Books

Language EN

Episodes 2

Latest 17.07.2026

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

Sophie Elmhirst on the True Story of a Shipwrecked Couple 17.07.2026 31m

Host Gilbert Cruz's conversation from last year with author Sophie Elmhirst features "Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession and Shipwreck" — the gripping 1970s story of a couple shipwrecked by a whale — newly out in paperback this summer.
This Author Says You Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by ‘The Odyssey’ 11.07.2026 43m

First, a primer from the author of “Circe,” Madeline Miller. Then, A.O. Scott on all the genres inside the 3,000-year-old poem.

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