“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
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David Sedaris has a pleasingly strange voice
The brilliant essayist already writes for the listener, which makes his new audiobook yet another triumph
Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books, Audio Books, The Listener
“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
“The Listener”: The David Foster Wallace of bodily functions
Mary Roach's "Gulp" goes deep into gross human-body taboos, all with wit, smarts and amazing wordplay
Thursday, Apr 11, 2013 6:59 PM UTCEntertainment Books, Audio Books, The Listener
“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
Must Do’s: What we like this week
"Game of Thrones" launches into its third season and "The Shining" theorists get their due in "Room 237"
Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 2:00 PM UTCEntertainment Our Picks, Our Picks: Books
“Back of the House”: Restaurant secrets get spilled
Scott Haas' audiobook gets closer to how restaurants really work than any reality TV or Food Network show
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 3:21 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Books, Audio Books
“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
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
Must Do’s: What we like this week
David Duchovny loses a nuclear sub, Rebecca Hall fills the "Downton" void, and Betty Friedan ignites a movement
Saturday, Mar 2, 2013 3:00 PM UTCEntertainment Our Picks, Our Picks: Books
“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
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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