Each week, Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, talks to authors, editors and critics about new books, the literary scene and current best sellers. The program is available as a podcast on NYTimes.com and iTunes, and is broadcast as "Inside The New York Times Book Review" on Fridays at 6:05pm in New York on WQXR 96.3 FM. The downloadable audio files are in mp3 format; instructions for subscribing to the podcast are below.
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January 9, 2009
This week: Stacey D'Erasmo discusses her new novel, "The Sky Below"; Motoko Rich has Notes From the Field; Bill Morgan talks about the letters of Allen Ginsberg; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
January 2, 2009
This week: Dominique Browning on a new book about Brooke Astor, Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field, Jeremy McCarter on the life of Marlon Brando, and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
December 26, 2008
This week: The Times’s David Carr on a new biography of Rupert Murdoch; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; Dana Canedy discusses her memoir, “A Journal for Jordan”; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
December 19, 2008
This week: Alex Witchel on Christopher Plummer's memoir; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; Bruce Jay Friedman, the author of "Three Balconies"; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
December 12, 2008
This week: Bob Harris, the Book Review’s Deputy Editor, on the 10 Best Books of 2008; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; Lorraine Adams on “The Jewel of Medina”; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
December 5, 2008
This week: Caroline Weber on portraits from Vanity Fair magazine; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; Charles McGrath on newly-discovered verse by Bob Dylan; and bestseller news from Jennifer Schuessler. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
November 28, 2008
This week: an extended conversation with Toni Morrison, Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field and best-seller news from Jennifer Schuessler. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
November 21, 2008
This week: George Packer on the strange life of V. S. Naipaul; Motoko Rich reports on the National Book Awards; Charles Isherwood talks about Ziegfeld’s Follies; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
November 14, 2008
This week: Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter on the life of George Plimpton; Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field; Roy Blount Jr. takes listeners through the alphabet; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
November 7, 2008
This week: the novelist Jonathan Lethem on Roberto Bolaño; Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field; Julie Just on children’s books; and best-seller news from Jennifer Schuessler. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
October 31, 2008
This week: An extended conversation with John Updike; Motoko Rich on the Google Books settlement; and best-seller news from Dwight Garner. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
October 24, 2008
This week: Stacy Schiff on the career of Emily Post; Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field; Steven Heller reviews some new design books; and best-seller news from Dwight Garner. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
October 17, 2008
This Week: Cartoonist Jules Feiffer recalls his Village Voice years; Motoko Rich calls in from the Frankfurt Book Fair; James McPherson discusses President Lincoln's war powers; and Dwight Garner has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
October 10, 2008
This week: Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey lead a tour of all 50 states; Motoko Rich with news on the book world; Bruce Handy on campaign biographies for kids; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
October 3, 2008
This week: Alex Kuczynski on Alec Baldwin’s memoir of divorce; Charles McGrath on a Nobel Prize controversy; James Traub on Gen. David Petraeus; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
September 26, 2008
This week: Rachel Donadio on Michael Greenberg’s memoir, “Hurry Down Sunshine”; Charles McGrath on the 2008 MacArthur Fellows; John Leland on Mark Richardson’s “Zen and Now”; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
September 19, 2008
This week: Bernard-Henri Lévy, author of “Left in Dark Times”; A. O. Scott on David Foster Wallace; David Gates on Philip Roth.
September 12, 2008
This week: Dexter Filkins, author of “The Forever War”; Mick Sussman on the oddities of online bookselling; Patricia Cohen on Maurice Sendak.
September 5, 2008
This week: Christopher Buckley, author of “Supreme Courtship”; Wesley Yang on “Guyland”; Motoko Rich on the children’s author Rick Riordan.
August 29, 2008
This week: The Times columnist Maureen Dowd on the politics of Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel; Dave Itzkoff on Daniel J. Levitin’s “World in Six Songs.”
August 22, 2008
This week: Brenda Wineapple, the author of a new book on Emily Dickinson; Paul Berman on Norman Mailer and the 1968 party conventions.
August 15, 2008
This week: Bill Keller, The Times’s executive editor, on Nelson Mandela, race and rugby in South Africa; Stacey D’Erasmo on Linn Ullmann’s novel “A Blessed Child.”
August 8, 2008
This week: This week: David Carr, author of “The Night of the Gun”; Tom Vanderbilt, author of “Traffic.”
August 1, 2008
This week: Jane Mayer, author of “The Dark Side”; Steven Heller, author of “Iron Fists.”
July 25, 2008
Jess Winfield, author of “My Name Is Will”; Charles McGrath on Miranda Seymour’s memoir.
July 18, 2008
Virginia Heffernan on self-help books; David Orr on Frances Richey’s new poetry collection, “The Warrior.”
July 11, 2008
Rivka Galchen, author of “Atmospheric Disturbances”; Stephanie Zacharek on a new biography of Jean-Luc Godard.
July 4, 2008
Julie Salamon, author of “Hospital”; Kate Sekules on Michael Meyer’s “Last Days of Old Beijing.”
June 27, 2008
Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, the authors of “Grand New Party”; Alessandra
Stanley on Alan Furst’s latest spy thriller.
June 20, 2008
Joe Nocera, the author of “Good Guys and Bad Guys”; Marie Winn, the author of “Central Park in the Dark.”
June 13, 2008
The novelist Jackie Collins; Elizabeth Royte, the author of “Bottlemania.”
June 6, 2008
Kathryn Harrison, the author of “While They Slept”; Augusten Burroughs, the author of “A Wolf at the Table.”
June 1, 2008
Jonathan Miles, author of “Dear American Airlines”; Marisha Pessl on Bob Dylan’s
sketches and paintings.
May 25, 2008
Victor S. Navasky on William F. Buckley Jr.; Jennifer Balderama on the dancer Carlos Acosta.
May 18, 2008
Joseph O’Neill, the author of “Netherland”; Christine Muhlke on gray-market luxury
goods.
May 11, 2008
Fareed Zakaria, author of “The Post-American World”; the children’s book author Walter Dean Myers.
May 5, 2008
Roger Lowenstein on the coming pension crisis; Liesl Schillinger on “Serve the People!” by Yan Lianke; Rachel Donadio on Vladimir Nabokov.
April 27, 2008
The novelist Alexander McCall Smith; Katie Roiphe on Germaine Greer; Rachel Donadio on American graphomania.
April 20, 2008
George Packer on Michael Hastings’s Baghdad memoir; Brenda Wineapple on Joyce Carol Oates.
April 13, 2008
Philip Bobbitt, author of “Terror and Consent”; Jacques Steinberg on Clear Channel; Stephen Koch on Noël Coward’s wartime espionage.
April 6, 2008
Fareed Zakaria on Benazir Bhutto; Pamela Paul, author of “Parenting, Inc.”; Dave Itzkoff on Ceridwen Dovey’s “Blood Kin.”
March 30, 2008
Evan Thomas on Max Hastings’s World War II history, “Retribution”; Mary Roach, author of “Bonk”; Rachel Donadio on love and literary taste.
March 23, 2008
A conversation with Tom Wolfe; Nicholas D. Kristof on the dark side of population control; Alex Berenson, author of “The Ghost War.”
March 16, 2008
Richard Price, author of “Lush Life”; the novelist Tessa Hadley; Keith Gessen on the college admissions rat race.
March 9, 2008
Antonio Skármeta, author of “The Dancer and the Thief”; Jennifer 8. Lee, author of “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles”; Rachel Donadio on Martin Amis. Bob Harris is the host.
March 2, 2008
James Collins, author of “Beginner’s Greek”; the novelist Anne Enright; Stacey D’Erasmo on Roberto Bolaño.
February 24, 2008
Robin Wright, author of “Dreams and Shadows”; Jacob Weisberg, author of “The Bush Tragedy” and David Michaelis on Bill Mauldin.
February 17, 2008
Bill Keller on Nelson Mandela; Elizabeth Royte on “The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw”; Rachel Donadio on Harold L. Humes.
February 10, 2008
The Book Review’s Elsa Dixler and David Kelly discussing the special issue on politics; Susan Morrison, editor of “Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary”; David Greenberg on Jesse Helms and modern conservatism.
February 3, 2008
Charles Bock, author of “Beautiful Children”; Katie Roiphe on David Rieff and Susan Sontag; Rachel Donadio on why it still takes so long to publish a book.
January 27, 2008
Drew Gilpin Faust, author of “This Republic of Suffering”; Charles McGrath on Ezra Pound; Chris Suellentrop on Patrick J. Buchanan.
January 20, 2008
William Logan on Geoffrey Hill’s poetry; Jacob Heilbrunn on neoconservatives; Rachel Donadio on Elie Wiesel.
January 13, 2008
Anthony Lewis, author of “Freedom for the Thought That We Hate”; Charles Taylor on “Sway,” by Zachary Lazar; J. D. Biersdorfer on “The Encyclopedia of Immaturity.”
January 6, 2008
Barry Gewen introduces the Islam Issue; Irshad Manji on reforming Islam; Tom Reiss on “Napoleon's Egypt.” Dwight Garner is the host.
December 30, 2007
Joseph Weisberg, author of “An Ordinary Spy”; Lee Siegel on Peter Gay’s “Modernism”; Jennifer Schuessler on “The Hidden Persuaders.”
December 23, 2007
Will Self, author of “Psychogeography”; Liesl Schillinger on Yannick Murphy; David Kelly on Antony Flew and atheism.
December 16, 2007
Edward Hirsch on “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”; science fiction columnist Dave Itzkoff; Rachel Donadio on J.M. Coetzee.
December 9, 2007
Conversations with two authors from the Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year list: Mildred Armstrong Kalish and Joshua Ferris; also, Graham Robb, author of "The Discovery of France."
December 2, 2007
Conversations with Umberto Eco and Jim Shepard; the editors of the Book Review discuss the 10 Best Books of the Year.
November 25, 2007
Barry Day on Noël Coward; Brad Stone on Fake Steve Jobs; Rachel Donadio
on the Naples Mafia.
November 18, 2007
Eric Lax on Woody Allen; Rich Cohen on the Mafia; Emily Bazelon on the imperial presidency.
November 11, 2007
Jed Perl on Picasso; Kathryn Harrison on Judith Thurman; Julie Just on the best illustrated children's books of the year.
November 4, 2007
Elizabeth D. Samet, author of "Soldier's Heart"; Dan Barry, author of "City Lights"; Caroline Weber on "The Discovery of France"; Rex Reed on Bette Davis.
October 28, 2007
Alex Ross, the author of “The Rest Is Noise”; Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on translating Tolstoy; Stephanie Zacharek on Pattie Boyd.
October 21, 2007
Tom Perrotta, the author of "The Abstinence Teacher"; Bliss Boyard, the author of "One Drop"; Lee Siegel on Alice Sebold.
October 14, 2007
David Michaelis, the author of “Schulz and Peanuts”; Kathryn Harrison on Mario Vargas Llosa; Julie Just on children’s books.
October 7, 2007
Maureen Dowd on Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; Brian C. Anderson, the author of “Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents”; Rachel Donadio on libel law.
September 30, 2007
Francisco Goldman, the author of “The Art of Political Murder”; A. O. Scott on Junot Díaz; Neil Genzlinger on “How Starbucks Saved My Life.”
September 23, 2007
Jeffrey Toobin, the author of “The Nine”; Leslie H. Gelb on “The Israel Lobby”; Dale Peck on “The Outsiders,” by S. E. Hinton.
September 16, 2007
Nell Freudenberger on David Leavitt; Mark Lilla, the author of “The Stillborn God”; Rachel Donadio on the canon wars.
September 9, 2007
Peter Beinart on Norman Podhoretz and Michael Ledeen; Steven Heller on graphic design; Dawn Drzal on Helen Slavin.
September 2, 2007
Alan Weisman, the author of “The World Without Us”; Matt Bai, the author of “The Argument”; Pagan Kennedy on MySpace’s literary communities.
August 26, 2007
Mary Gordon, the author of “Circling My Mother”; Dave Itzkoff on William Gibson; Caroline Weber on Dana Thomas.
August 19, 2007
Clive James, the author of “Cultural Amnesia”; Matthew Weiland on Jack Kerouac; and Margalit Fox, the author of “Talking Hands.”
August 12, 2007
Julie Just on Harry Potter; Lucette Lagnado, the author of “The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit”; Paul Greenberg on Hemingway as big-game fisherman.
August 5, 2007
Dalia Sofer, the author of “The Septembers of Shiraz”; Liesl Schillinger on Tessa Hadley; Stephen Metcalf on political conversions.
July 29, 2007
Helen Epstein, the author of “The Invisible Cure”; Jonathan Mahler on torture; the poetry columnist David Orr.
July 22, 2007
Tim Weiner, the author of “Legacy of Ashes”; Touré on tennis books; James Ryerson on Richard Rorty.
July 15, 2007
Jennifer Senior on books about Hillary Rodham Clinton; David Margolick on “1967,” by Tom Segev; Julie Just on children’s books.
July 8, 2007
Stephen L. Carter, the author of "New England White"; David Leonhardt on "More Sex Is Safer Sex"; John Leland on "Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy."
July 1, 2007
Elizabeth Gilbert on Mildred Armstrong Kalish; Martha Southgate on black writers; Liesl Schillinger on Min Jin Lee.
June 24, 2007
Bill Geist, the author of "Way Off the Road"; Katie Roiphe, the author of "Uncommon Arrangements"; Dave Itzkoff on science fiction.
June 17, 2007
Lee Siegel on Joyce Carol Oates; Pete Hamill on "Taxi!"; Julie Just on children's books.
June 10, 2007
Tina Brown, the author of "The Diana Chronicles"; Marilyn Stasio on crime fiction; Rachel Donadio on technology and the novel.
June 3, 2007
Ian McEwan, the author of “On Chesil Beach”; Amanda Hesser on cookbooks; and Steven Heller on graphic design books.
May 27, 2007
Frank Rich on Don DeLillo; Marco Pierre White, the author of “The Devil in the Kitchen”; and Jonathan Rosen on Primo Levi.
May 20, 2007
Brent Staples on Ralph Ellison; Debby Applegate on “The Clarks of Cooperstown”; and Ihsan Taylor on “7: The Mickey Mantle Novel”.
May 13, 2007
Christopher Hitchens, the author of “God Is Not Great”; Julie Just on children’s books; and Tim Weiner on E. Howard Hunt.
May 6, 2007
Robert R. Harris, the deputy editor of the Book Review, on “The Joy of Drinking,” David Shipley, the co-author of “Send”; and Jon Savage, the author of “Teenage.”
April 29, 2007
Meghan O'Rourke, the author of "Halflife"; James Traub on George Kennan; and Steve Coates on "The Day of the Barbarians."
April 22, 2007
Darcey Steinke, the author of “Easter Everywhere”; Jennifer Senior on Dorothy Schiff; Tobin Harshaw on “The Last Mughal.”
April 15, 2007
Edith Grossman on translation; Joel Agee on Elfriede Jelinek; Dave Itzkoff on science fiction.
April 8, 2007
Katie Roiphe on A. M. Homes; Alex Kuczynski on Paulina Porizkova; John Rockwell on Columbia Records.
April 1, 2007
Caroline Weber on “Nancy Cunard”; David Leonhardt on “Radicals for Capitalism”; Jeremy McCarter on Thornton Wilder.
March 25, 2007
Rachel Donadio on the book dealer Glenn Horowitz; Liesl Schillinger on Trezza Azzopardi; Christopher Benfey on "Tales From the Torrid Zone."
March 18, 2007
Joshua Ferris, the author of “Then We Came to the End”; Scott Stossel on biographies; John Leland on Larry McMurtry.
March 11, 2007
Kurt Andersen, the author of “Heyday”; Brian Selznick, the author of “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”; David Orr on poetry in The New Yorker.
March 4, 2007
Lorraine Adams on Hisham Matar; A. O. Scott on Jane Smiley; Jacob Heilbrunn on President Bush’s critics.
February 25, 2007
Liesl Schillinger on Tom McCarthy; Peter Keepnews on George Gershwin; J. D. Biersdorfer on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
February 18, 2007
Mayra Montero, the author of "Dancing to 'Almendra'"; Joan Acocella, the author of "Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints"; Jim Holt on Michael Frayn.
February 11, 2007
Stephen Metcalf on James Fenton; Jay Jennings on Pete Maravich; Ben Schoen on Harry Potter.
February 4, 2007
Michael Thomas, the author of “Man Gone Down”; David Orr on poetry; Sam Tanenhaus on Saul Bellow.
January 28, 2007
Thomas Mallon on Thomas Hardy; Jim Harrison on Karl Shapiro; Dave Marsh on “Something in the Air”
January 21, 2007
Lee Siegel on Norman Mailer; Alan Wolfe on Dinesh D'Souza; Liesl Schillinger on Roddy Doyle.
January 14, 2007
Calvin Trillin, the author of “About Alice”; Liesl Schillinger on Martin Amis; Neil Genzlinger on Tim Sandlin
January 7, 2007
Robert Stone, the author of "Prime Green"; Allan Sloan on P. J. O'Rourke; Dave Itzkoff on Michael Crichton.
December 31, 2006
Vendela Vida, the author of "Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name"; Stacy Schiff on George III; Steven Coates on the Roman Empire; Rachel Donadio on Nadine Gordimer.
December 24, 2006
Dave Eggers, the author of “What Is the What”; Gary Hart on Barack Obama; Caroline Weber on the Marquise Du Châtelet; Dave Itzkoff on science fiction.
December 17, 2006
Barry Gewen and Rachel Donadio on war books; Julie Just on children’s books.
December 10, 2006
James Traub, the author of “The Best of Intentions”; Rachel Donadio on Helen Vendler.
December 3, 2006
How the Notable Books list was chosen; Dave Itzkoff on music books; Neil Genzlinger on "Presidential Doodles."
November 26, 2006
Liesl Schillinger on Thomas Pynchon; Nicolai Ouroussoff on Frank Lloyd Wright; Dennis Overbye on Einstein.
November 19, 2006
John Waters on Tennessee Williams; Steven Heller on Al Goldstein; Rachel Donadio on literary feuds.
November 12, 2006
Maurice Sendak, the author of “Mommy?"; Jim Windolf on Stephen King; Jonathan Mahler on Rudy Giuliani.
November 5, 2006
David Margolick on David Mamet; Emily Nussbaum on Heidi Julavits; science fiction columnist Dave Itzkoff.
October 29, 2006
A. O. Scott on Richard Ford; Amy Sedaris, the author of "I Like You"; David Leonhardt on Jacob S. Hacker.
October 22, 2006
Lemony Snicket, the author of "The End"; Alex Kuczynski, the author of "Beauty Junkies"; Jim Holt on Richard Dawkins.
October 15, 2006
Caroline Weber, the author of "Queen of Fashion"; John Leland on Adam Gopnik; Virginia Heffernan on National Lampoon.
October 8, 2006
Ron Rosenbaum, the author of "The Shakespeare Wars"; Tom Reiss on Fritz Stern.
October 1, 2006
David Kamp, the author of "The United States of Arugula"; James Barron, the author of "Piano."
September 24, 2006
Daniel Mendelsohn, the author of "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million"; science fiction columnist Dave Itzkoff on "Dune"; Rachel Donadio on the "Dummies" books.
September 17, 2006
Frank Rich, the author of "The Greatest Story Ever Sold"; Lawrence Levi on Nicole Kidman.
September 10, 2006
Nicholas Lemann, the author of "Redemption"; Stanley Crouch on the Black Panthers.
September 3, 2006
David Friend, the author of "Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11"; Stephen Metcalf on Thomas McGuane.
August 27, 2006
Meghan O’Rourke on Claire Messud; Rachel Donadio on the mystery of the missing novel.
August 20, 2006
Dave Itzkoff on James Tiptree, Jr.; Liesl Schillinger on Nora Ephron; Rachel Donadio on writers' colonies.
August 13, 2006
Marisha Pessl, the author of "Special Topics in Calamity Physics"; Julie Just on children's books.
August 6, 2006
Joe Queenan on reading many books at once; Rachel Donadio on Silvio Berlusconi.
July 30, 2006
Jennifer Egan, the author of "The Keep"; Jennifer Schuessler on the maverick economist Deirdre McCloskey.
July 23, 2006
William C. Rhoden, the author of "$40 Million Slaves."; David Margolick on "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz," by Jan T. Gross.
July 16, 2006
Laura Secor on Shirin Ebadi; Barry Gewen on "Überpower: The Imperial Temptation of America," by Josef Joffe.
July 9, 2006
David Kelly on Hurricane Katrina books; Dave Itzkoff on science fiction books.
July 2, 2006
Robert Sullivan, the author of "Cross Country"; Dwight Garner on Ishmael Reed.
June 24, 2006
David Kelly on Timothy Leary; Barry Gewen on Noam Chomsky.
June 17, 2006
David Kelly on Daniel Okrent; Robert R. Harris on John McPhee.
June 10, 2006
Stephen Metcalf on Michel Houellebecq; Stephanie Zacharek on Bette Davis.
June 3, 2006
Brent Staples on "Rough Crossings," by Simon Schama; David Kelly on "American Movie Critics."
May 28, 2006
Bruce Handy on Anthony Bourdain; Amanda Hesser on cookbooks.
May 21, 2006
A. O. Scott on the best American fiction of the last 25 years; Rachel Donadio on the book business.
May 14, 2006
Robert R. Harris on "Strange Piece of Paradise," by Terri Jentz; Julie Just on children's books.
May 7, 2006
David Kelly on Roberto Clemente; Henry Alford on selling books on a street corner.
April 30, 2006
Gary Shteyngart, the author of "Absurdistan"; Jennifer Schuessler on lost books.
