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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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Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
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A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
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Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects
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The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492 – 1900
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
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Self – Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
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Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch
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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
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How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods
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