“We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”: Growing up primate
Karen Joy Fowler's funny, powerful novel of human-animal relations finds its ideal audiobook narrator
Thursday, Jun 13, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, The Listener, Audiobooks
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“The Golem and the Jinni”: Magic in the New World
A master narrator reads a tale of two creatures from folklore making new lives in turn-of-the-century Manhattan
Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Books, Audiobooks
So long, Sookie Stackhouse
The final volume of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries series does right by a beloved character
Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks, Fiction
“The Shelter Cycle”: Raised in a cult
Two adults remember their childhood in a doomsday sect in Peter Rock's remarkable novel of faith and meaning
Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks, Fiction
“Harvest”: A fairy-tale witch hunt
A lilting narration for Jim Crace's dark, eternal story of a village that turns on itself
Friday, Apr 19, 2013 6:40 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks, Fiction
“River of Stars”: Picture “Game of Thrones” in China
Guy Gavriel Kay's exquisite Asian-inspired epic fantasy offers a fresh twist on intrigue and adventure
Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 9:20 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks, Fiction
“How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia”: Poor boy makes good
Mohsin Hamid's narration of his novel about a ruthless striver demonstrates the universal appeal of great fiction
Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks
Joan Didion’s “Salvador” delves into the heart of darkness
Though it was first published 30 years ago, Didion's account of the war in El Salvador still feels as urgent today
Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Our Picks: Books, Our Picks
Back to the Round Table
Audiobooks helped me find the time to reread T.H. White's magnificent "The Once and Future King"
Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks, Fiction
“True Grit” and beyond
A stellar new recording of "Norwood" has me asking why I waited so long to read Charles Portis
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks, Fiction
What we liked this week
From a Beyoncé doc to an amazing stalker memoir, here's what our critics are obsessed with right now
Saturday, Feb 16, 2013 3:30 PM UTCEntertainment pick of the week, What to Read
Julia Scheeres was losing her religion
In "Jesus Land," a memoirst reckons with an Evangelical upbringing and the grief of her brother's death
Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Religion, julia scheeres, Memoir
“Downton Abbey” for grown-ups
Get ready for the BBC miniseries "Parade's End" by listening to Ford Madox Ford's WWI masterpiece
Thursday, Feb 7, 2013 8:00 PM UTC 10Entertainment Books, Editor's Picks, Audiobooks
Is essayist Eula Biss Joan Didion’s heiress apparent?
"Notes From No Man's Land" traverses the American culture and landscape to confront a long history of racism
Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, audible, Audiobooks
The psychopath’s lament
The narrator of Lydia Cooper's "My Second Death" has antisocial personality disorder. But how crazy is she, really?
Thursday, Jan 24, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks
Julie Klausner dated horrible men so that you don’t have to
A darkly comic memoir by the hilarious writer/podcaster reflects on her pursuit of love in all the wrong places
Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, Audiobooks, The Listener
My New Year’s resolution: To read Proust
Long daunted by the French master's seven-book masterpiece, I vow to finish it this year on audio
Thursday, Jan 10, 2013 5:04 PM UTCEntertainment Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Tim O’Brien tries to make sense of wartime chaos
Before writing "The Things They Carried," O'Brien offered this profound memoir of his year fighting in Vietnam
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, tim o'brien, Fiction
Journalists behaving badly
In a new recording of Evelyn Waugh's wickedly funny satire "Scoop," the press descends on an African backwater
Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 4:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, Fiction, Audiobooks
John Hodgman’s guide to the apocalypse
The humorist's new book of fake trivia offers a deranged millionaire's tips on surviving the end of the world
Thursday, Dec 20, 2012 5:22 PM UTCEntertainment John Hodgman, Mayan calendar
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