The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading ...
Every season brings its share of books to look forward to, and this spring is no different. Host Gilbert Cruz is joined by Book Review editor Joumana Khatib to talk about a dozen or so titles that sound interesting in the months ahead.Books discussed on this episode:"Dream Count," by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"Sunrise on the Reaping," by Suzanne Collins"The Buffalo Hunter Hunter," by Stephen Graham Jones"Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools," by Mary Annette Pember"Great Big Beautiful Life," by Emily Henry"John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs," by Ian Leslie"Yoko: A Biography," by David Sheff"Searches," by Vauhini Vara"Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America," by Michael Luo"Rabbit Moon," by Jennifer Haigh"Mark Twain," by Ron Chernow"Authority," by Andrea Long Chu"Spent," by Alison Bechdel"Fish Tales," by Nettie Jones
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Book Club: Let's Talk About "Orbital," by Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital,” which won the Booker Prize last year, has a tight, poetic frame: We follow one day in the lives of six people working on a space station above Earth, orbiting the planet 16 times every 24 hours. But this is not a saga of adventure or exploration. It’s a quiet meditation on what it means to be human, prompted by a series of personal reckonings each character faces while floating 250 miles above home.This week on the Book Review Book Club, MJ Franklin talks about “Orbital” with fellow Book Review editors Joumana Khatib and Jennifer Harlan.
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The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading and what's going on in the literary world.
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