The Book Review Podcast

The podcast that takes you inside the literary world.
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What It’s Like to Write a New John le Carré Novel
Nick Harkaway is an accomplished author who also happens to be le Carré’s son. In his latest book, “Karla’s Choice,” he revisits his father’s great spy protagonist, George Smiley.
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Intermezzo’
Sally Rooney’s new novel explores the relationship between two brothers grieving the death of their father, and follows their complicated love lives with Rooney’s usual panache.
Two Horror Authors on the Scary Books You Should Read
Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.
Stanley Tucci on His New Book, ‘What I Ate in One Year’
The actor and renowned foodie talks about his eating habits and his food diary, and we look at the fiction and nonfiction titles up for the National Book Award.
Jean Hanff Korelitz on ‘The Sequel’
The writer discusses her follow-up to her best-selling 2021 novel “The Plot.”
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘The Hypocrite’
Jo Hamya’s novel tells the story of the fraught relationship between a self-absorbed British writer and his playwright daughter.
A Look Ahead at Autumn’s Big Books
The season’s most anticipated titles include new fiction from Sally Rooney, Richard Powers, Jean Hanff Korelitz and more, plus celebrity memoirs by Al Pacino, Cher and Ina Garten.
Robert Caro on 50 Years of ‘The Power Broker’
The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.
Kate Atkinson on the Return of Her Detective Hero
“Death at the Sign of the Rook” is the sixth novel in Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie mystery series. What keeps her coming back?
Isabel Wilkerson Looks Back at ‘The Warmth of Other Suns’
The fifth in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.