The Sunday Special: The Books We Read in Scho...

How is it that a seven-book series written in Danish about a single day repeating over and over has become something of a sensation among the literary set? Since the English translations of Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” series were first published in the United St ...  Show more

Patrick Radden Keefe joins “The Book Review” to discuss his new book, “London Falling,” which begins when a family loses a 19-year-old son, Zac Brettler, under mysterious circumstances. His parents eventually discover he had been living a secret life, posing as the son of a Russi ...  Show more

As kids across America head back to school, Gilbert Cruz, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, is thinking about the books he read when he was in school.

On today’s Sunday Special, Gilbert talks with the Book Review editor Sadie Stein and the author Louis Sachar ...

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Fall asleep tonight to the opening chapters of Middlemarch by George Eliot. We released a shorter episode early in 2022 but I wanted to revisit the book. In this episode, we are introduced to highly religious Dorothea, her sister Celia, and their prospective suitors. Support t ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit readingthroughlife.substack.com *Want to add our podcast directly to your podcast feed? CLICK HERE for all the details.* Hi, book nerds! We’re really excited to bring these monthly episodes to our paid subscribers. We’ ...  Show more