{"podcast":{"title":"The Book Review","slug":"the-book-review-415412","podcast_index_feed_id":415412,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/MssIhx9y","website_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/1e9abcf9-af9c-4105-8b1b-8e05c60c1fcf/3000x3000/8ce0200f165a6c5cafeecc11ac3294f228d9e46d8af6079a5a9db0fe3b62c8fe48ee2dbb6b2460bf705631e82a06b6b79e940141aad774c868833e2a204ce41b.jpeg?aid=rss_feed","author":"The New York Times","episode_count":600,"summary":"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. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:20:07.221588+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412"},"episode":{"title":"Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Hounding' by Xenobe Purvis","slug":"book-club-let-s-talk-about-the-hounding-by-xenobe-purvis","published_at":"2026-01-30T18:53:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412/book-club-let-s-talk-about-the-hounding-by-xenobe-purvis","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/30e2d99b-1da8-42c8-bdcc-ee373dbe2c33/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=30e2d99b-1da8-42c8-bdcc-ee373dbe2c33&feed=MssIhx9y","summary":"Xenobe Purvis’s slim but powerful debut novel, “The Hounding,” is about five young sisters in 1700s England who are suspected of being able to transform into a pack of wild dogs. It is a gothic parable about male ego, cultural misogyny and the dangers of gossip run amok. On this week’s episode, host MJ Franklin discusses “The Hounding” with fellow Book Review editors Joumana Khatib, Emily Eakin and Gregory Cowles.","meta_description":"Xenobe Purvis’s slim but powerful debut novel, “The Hounding,” is about five young sisters in 1700s England who are suspected of being able to transform i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2979,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-book-review-415412/episodes/book-club-let-s-talk-about-the-hounding-by-xenobe-purvis/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412/book-club-let-s-talk-about-the-hounding-by-xenobe-purvis.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}