Afleveringen
-
When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first read âThe Nickel Boys,â Colson Whiteheadâs Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black boys in a dangerous reform school in the 1960s, he couldnât help but put himself in the shoes of its protagonists, Elwood and Turner.
In his film adaptation of the book, Ross does that to the audience: You see what the characters see, because itâs filmed from the main characterâs point of view. âI wondered,â Ross said, âhow do you explicitly film from the perspective of a Black person?â
It was an experiment that has paid off in critical acclaim. âNickel Boysâ has been nominated for two Academy Awards: best adapted screenplay and best picture.
In the first episode of our special series devoted to Oscar-nominated films adapted from books, host Gilbert Cruz talks with Ross about why he made the film this particular way.
Produced by Tina Antolini and Alex Barron
With Kate LoPresti
Edited by Wendy Dorr
Engineered by Sophia Lanman
Original music by Elisheba Ittoop
Hosted by Gilbert Cruz
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
The novel âOur Evenings,â by Alan Hollinghurst, follows a gay English Burmese actor from childhood into old age as he confronts confusing relationships, his emerging sexuality, racism and Englandâs changing political climate in the late 20th and early 21st century. Itâs the story of a life â beautifully related by a literary master whose 2004 novel âThe Line of Beautyâ won the Booker Prize and was named to the Book Reviewâs 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.
Reviewing âOur Eveningsâ for us last year, Hamilton Cain wrote that the book âis that rare bird: a muscular work of ideas and an engrossing tale of one manâs personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language, surrounding us like a Wall of Sound.â
You can join our book club discussion in the comments here.
We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Reviewâs podcast in general. You can send them to [email protected].
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
-
In Alafair Burkeâs new thriller, âThe Note,â three friends are vacationing together in the Hamptons when they have an unpleasant run-in with a couple of strangers and decide to exact drunken, petty revenge. But the prank they pull â a note reading âHeâs cheating on youâ â snowballs, eventually embroiling them in a missing-persons investigation and forcing each woman to wonder what dark secrets her friends are hiding.
Burke joins host Gilbert Cruz and talks about how she came up with the idea for âThe Note,â and how she goes about writing her books in general.
âI always have a few ideas, just, like the setup in my head,â she says. âAnd then I also have characters in my head. Theyâre not aligned together initially. I might just be thinking about a character whoâs interesting to me for various reasons. It might be the back story thatâs interesting, or it might be a personality trait thatâs interesting. And then Iâll have a setup, like, three women go on vacation and stir up some nonsense that gets them in trouble. And for me, when I can start writing is when â itâs almost like matchmaking: Oh, OK, if I take that character that Iâve been thinking about with that back story and that set of anxieties and I put her in this scenario, thatâs going to get interesting.â
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Decades ago, after he lost in home in a California wildfire, the travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer started to go to a small monastery in Big Sur in search of solitude. On this week's episode he discusses those retreats, which he writes about in his new book "Aflame: Learning from Silence."
"It's true that even from a young age, I only had to step into the silence of any monastery or convent and I felt a kind of longing, the way other people feel a longing when they see a delectable meal or a Pistachio gelato."
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
And we're back! Happy new year, readers. On this weekâs episode, Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib talk about some of the upcoming books theyâre most anticipating over the next several months.
Books discussed on this episode:
"Stone Yard Devotional," by Charlotte Wood
"Aflame: Learning from Silence," by Pico Iyer
"Onyx Storm," by Rebecca Yarros
"Glyph," by Ali Smith
"The Dream Hotel," by Laila Lalami
"The Colony," by Annika Norlin
"We Do Not Part," by Han Kang
"Playworld," by Adam Ross
"Death of the Author," by Nnedi Okorafor
"The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary," by Susannah Cahalan
"Tilt," by Emma Pattee
"Dream Count," by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Hope: The Autobiography," by Pope Francis
"Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church," by Philip Shenon
"The Antidote," by Karen Russell
"Source Code: My Beginnings," by Bill Gates
"Great Big Beautiful Life," by Emily Henry
"Sunrise on the Reaping," by Suzanne Collins
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
The Book Review podcast is off for the holidays, but please enjoy this episode of the The New York Times's Culture Desk show from earlier this fall.
In 2004, Susanna Clarke published her debut novel, the sprawling 800-page historical fantasy âJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.â It was a sensation. Clarke sold millions of copies, won literary awards and landed on best-seller lists.
After just one book, Clarke was regarded as one of Britainâs greatest fantasy novelists. It would be 16 years before she resurfaced with her second novel, âPiranesi.â
So, where did she go? And what is she doing now?
On the 20th anniversary of her masterpiece, the Times reporter Alexandra Alter visited Clarke at her limestone cottage in Englandâs Peak District to discuss her winding path to literary stardom and, above all else, her complex relationship with magic.
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Clare Keegan's slim 2021 novella about one Irishman's crisis of conscience during the Christmas season, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has also been adapted into a film starring Cillian Murphy. In this weekâs episode, MJ Franklin discusses the book with his colleagues Joumana Khatib, Lauren Christensen, and Elisabeth Egan.
Keegan's book was also one of The New York Times Book Review's 100 best books of the 21st century. As we wrote, "Not a word is wasted in Keeganâs small, burnished gem of a novel, a sort of Dickensian miniature centered on the son of an unwed mother who has grown up to become a respectable coal and timber merchant with a family of his own in 1985 Ireland. Moralistically, though, it might as well be the Middle Ages as he reckons with the ongoing sins of the Catholic Church and the everyday tragedies wrought by repression, fear and rank hypocrisy."
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs â staff critics for The New York Times Book Review â join host Gilbert Cruz to look back on highlights from their year in books.
Books discussed:
"Intermezzo," by Sally Rooney
"All Fours," by Miranda July
"You Dreamed of Empires," by Ălvaro Enrigue
"When the Clock Broke," by John Ganz
"Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring," by Brad Gooch
"Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius," by Carrie Courogen
"My Beloved Monster," by Caleb Carr
"Rejection," by Tony Tulathimutte
"Beautyland," by Marie-Helene Bertino
"Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society," by Daniel Chandler
"Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs and Opera," by Ricky Ian Gordon
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Following our Top 10 Books of 2024 episode, we are re-running our book club discussion about one of the novels on our year-end list: "Good Material."
How to explain the British writer Dolly Alderton to an American audience? It might be best to let her work speak for itself â it certainly does! â but Alderton is such a cultural phenomenon in her native England that some context is probably helpful: âLike Nora Ephron, With a British Twistâ is the way The New York Times Book Review put it when we reviewed her latest novel, âGood Material,â earlier this year.
âGood Materialâ tells the story of a down-on-his-luck stand-up comic dealing with a broken heart, and it has won Alderton enthusiastic fans in America. In this episode, the Book Reviewâs MJ Franklin discusses the book with his colleagues Emily Eakin and Leah Greenblatt.
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Don't let anyone tell you differently â end of year list time is a wonderful time, indeed. And, as we do every December, we are ready to discuss the 10 best books of the year. Host Gilbert Cruz gathers the editors of the New York Times Book Review to discuss the most exciting fiction and nonfiction of the year.
The New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2024
"James," by Percival Everett
"You Dreamed of Empires," by Ălvaro Enrigue; translated by Natasha Wimmer
"Good Material," by Dolly Alderton
"All Fours," by Miranda July
"Martyr!," by Kaveh Akbar
"The Wide Wide Sea," by Hampton Sides
"Everyone Who is Gone is Here," by Jonathan Blitzer
"Reagan," by Max Boot
"I Heard Her Call My Name," by Lucy Sante
"Cold Creamatorium," by JĂłzsef Debreczeni; translated by Paul OlchvĂĄry
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
The broad outlines of "James" will be immediately familiar to anyone with even a basic knowledge of American literature: A boy named Huckleberry Finn and an enslaved man named Jim are fleeing down the Mississippi River together, each in search of his own kind of freedom.
But where Mark Twainâs âAdventures of Huckleberry Finnâ treated Jim as a secondary character, a figure of pity and a target of fun, Percival Everett makes him the star of the show: a dignified, complicated, fully formed man capable of love and wit and rage in equal measure.
In this episode from May, the Book Reviewâs MJ Franklin discusses the book, which was recently awarded the National Book Award, with his colleagues Joumana Khatib and Gregory Cowles.
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
It begins with one of the most iconic lines in literature: âMany years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendĂa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.â
âOne Hundred Years of Solitude,â Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquezâs magical realist parable of imperialism in Latin America, is a tale of family, community, prophesy and disaster. In this weekâs episode, the Book Reviewâs MJ Franklin discusses the book with his colleagues Gregory Cowles and Miguel Salazar.
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
As part of The New York Times Book Review's project on the 100 Best Books published since the year 2000, Nick Hornby called "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" one of the "greatest literary achievements of the 21st century." The author Patrick Radden Keefe joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about his book, which has now been adapted into an FX miniseries.
Keefe has now seen his reporting on the life of Irish Republican Army soldier Dolours Price and others make its way from a New Yorker magazine article to an acclaimed nonfiction book to a streaming series. "In terms of storytelling, I try to write in a way that is as visceral and engaging as possible," Keefe said. "But the toolkit that you have when you make a series is so much more visceral. It's almost fissile in its power."
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
The works of John le Carré, who died in 2020, are among the most beloved thrillers of all time. For some, books like "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," "A Perfect Spy" and "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" are simply among their favorite works of literature ever.
So it was a perilous task that author Nick Harkaway, one of le Carré sons, set out for himself. The author of multiple well-received science fiction novels, Harkaway picked up the torch from his father to write a new tale starring George Smiley, the Cold War spy who has appeared in more than a half dozen novels. According to Harkaway, it took some work to figure out the right period to set the book in.
"Smiley's career is a little bit tricky in terms of the continuity because my dad, when he was writing these books, wasn't writing a franchise," Harkaway said. "He was writing one book after another, and each one was the only truth that he cared about."
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Sally Rooney is a writer people talk about. Since her first novel, âConversations With Friends,â was published in 2017, Rooney has been hailed as a defining voice of the millennial generation because of her ability to capture the particular angst and confusion of young love, friendship and coming-of-age in our fraught digital era.
âIntermezzo,â her fourth and latest novel, centers on two brothers separated by 10 years and periods of estrangement, who are grieving the recent death of their father. Peter Koubek is a 32-year-old lawyer with a younger girlfriend, Naomi, and an unextinguished flame for his ex, Sylvia; his brother, Ivan, is a 22-year-old chess prodigy who falls into a relationship with a 36-year-old divorcĂ©e, Margaret.
In this weekâs episode, the Book Reviewâs MJ Franklin discusses the book with fellow editors Joumana Khatib, Sadie Stein and Dave Kim.
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Halloween is just around the corner, so we turned to two great horror authors â Joe Hill and Stephen Graham Jones â for their recommendations of books to read this season.
Books discussed:
"Mean Spirited," by Nick Roberts"Maeve Fly," by CJ Leede"Come Closer," by Sara Gran"It," by Stephen King"Experimental Film," by Gemma Files"A Head Full of Ghosts," by Paul Tremblay"Lost Man's Lane," by Scott Carson"Fever House," by Keith Rosson"The Devil by Name," by Keith Rosson"The Reformatory," by Tananarive DueUnlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Salman Rushdie's "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," has been nominated in the nonfiction category as part of this year's National Book Awards, which will take place in mid-November. This week, we are running Rushdie's conversation with Ezra Klein from earlier this year.
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
The actor-director-producer Stanley Tucci is also, famously, an avid eater, who has explored his enthusiasm for food through his travel show âSearching for Italyâ and through two books: âTaste,â in 2021, and now a food diary, âWhat I Ate in One Year." In this weekâs episode, Tucci discusses his new book with host Gilbert Cruz and talks about bad meals, his food idol and his path to tracking a yearâs worth of eating.
âThe people at Simon & Schuster wanted me to write another book after âTaste,â and I really didnât know what to write,â Tucci says. âMy wife said, Just write what you eat. So I did, because I do everything she says. And it actually ended up being such a pleasure to write. It just flowed very easily. As you start to write about the mundane, you start to mine all this stuff that you didnât know you were thinking about, or that was happening. And thatâs what the book is. Itâs, in essence, the passage of time through the prism of food.â
Also on this weekâs episode, Gilbert chats with Joumana Khatib about the National Book Award finalists in fiction and nonfiction.
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
In 2021, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz had a hit with âThe Plot,â a book that was partly a mystery, partly a thriller and entirely a delicious sendup of the publishing industry. It told the tale of a once-promising writer, Jacob, who steals somebody elseâs story idea and reaches undreamed-of levels of success before things go very badly for him.
Korelitzâs new novel, âThe Sequel,â is â yes â a sequel to âThe Plot.â It follows Jacobâs widow, Anna, who has unexpectedly become a writer herself, only to be confronted with her own dark secrets. On this weekâs episode, Korelitz talks with the host Gilbert Cruz about the writing life, the shape of her career and her decision to write a sequel to âThe Plot.â
We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Reviewâs podcast in general. You can send them to [email protected].
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-
Jo Hamyaâs novel âThe Hypocriteâ follows a famous English novelist as he watches a new play by his daughter, Sophia, in London. The lights go down in the theater, and immediately the novelist realizes: The play is about him, the vacation he took with Sophia a decade earlier and the sins he committed while they were away.
The novel is an art monster story and a dysfunctional family saga that explores the ethics of creating work inspired by real life. In this weekâs episode, the Book Reviewâs MJ Franklin discusses the book with editors Joumana Khatib and Lauren Christensen.
Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
- Laat meer zien
