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 ...
How a Wildfire Sent Pico Iyer in Search of Silence
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."
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The Books We’re Excited About in Early 2025
And we're back! Happy new year, readers. On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib talk about some of the upcoming books they’re 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
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The 20th Anniversary of "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell"
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 “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.” 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 Britain’s greatest fantasy novelists. It would be 16 years before she resurfaced with her second novel, “Piranesi.”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 England’s Peak District to discuss her winding path to literary stardom and, above all else, her complex relationship with magic.
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