The 10 Best The Book Review Podcast Episodes
1) Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire
Orlean discusses “The Library Book,” and Reid Hoffman talks about “Blitzscaling.”
2) David Mitchell's Vast and Tangled Universe
Daniel Mendelsohn discusses Mitchell's career and new novel, "Utopia Avenue," and Maria Konnikova talks about "The Biggest Bluff."
3) George Saunders on Lincoln and Lost Souls
George Saunders talks about “Lincoln in the Bardo”; Alan Burdick on “Why Times Flies”; and Maria Russo discusses Laura Ingalls Wilder and the “Little House” books.
4) Charles Yu Talks About ‘Interior Chinatown’
Yu discusses his National Book Award-winning novel, and David S. Brown talks about “The Last American Aristocrat,” his biography of Henry Adams.
5) Fareed Zakaria on Life After the Pandemic
Zakaria discusses “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World,” and Margaret MacMillan talks about “War: How Conflict Shaped Us.”
6) Unjust America
Adam Cohen talks about “Supreme Inequality,” and Madeline Levine discusses “Ready or Not.”
7) The Chernobyl Disaster in Full
Adam Higginbotham talks about his sweeping new history of the nuclear accident and its aftermath, and Nellie Bowles discusses Clive Thompson's "Coders."
8) The History of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone
Joe Hagan discusses "Sticky Fingers," and Simon Winchester talks about "The Taste of Empire" and "A Thirst for Empire."
9) Kurt Andersen on Channeling President Trump
Andersen talks about "You Can't Spell America Without Me"; Liza Mundy discusses “Code Girls”; and Maria Russo on the season's children’s books.
10) Roaring Through Paris With ‘Kiki Man Ray’
Mark Braude talks about his new biography of the singer, model, writer and muse.