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The Book Review
143 books in the library with interviews on this podcast.
From The New York Times
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Gilbert Cruz and New York Times Book Review editors discuss books and literary life. Authors and critics join the conversations. The show considers notable releases alongside what its participants are reading themselves. Developments in the wider book world also enter the discussion. It combines encounters with writers and the perspectives of people who review their work.
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A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A Baker III
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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno – Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane
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Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924 – 1965
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
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The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
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Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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