The Book Review Podcast

This slim novella about one Irishman’s crisis of conscience during the Christmas season is the topic of our December book club discussion.

Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs discuss highlights from their year in books.

A group of editors on the year’s most extraordinary novels and nonfiction.

Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel about the rise and fall of a rural Colombian village as seen through generations of its founding family remains the leading exemplar of magical realism.

Keefe’s narrative history, which was No. 19 on our list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, has now been adapted into a streaming series.

Nick Harkaway is an accomplished author who also happens to be le Carré’s son. In his latest book, “Karla’s Choice,” he revisits his father’s great spy protagonist, George Smiley.

Sally Rooney’s new novel explores the relationship between two brothers grieving the death of their father, and follows their complicated love lives with Rooney’s usual panache.

Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.

The actor and renowned foodie talks about his eating habits and his food diary, and we look at the fiction and nonfiction titles up for the National Book Award.

The writer discusses her follow-up to her best-selling 2021 novel “The Plot.”