{"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":"The Books We're Excited About in Early 2026","slug":"the-books-we-re-excited-about-in-early-2026","published_at":"2026-01-16T19:33:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412/the-books-we-re-excited-about-in-early-2026","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/9009100e-7645-4ce3-929a-6e11c75956a1/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=9009100e-7645-4ce3-929a-6e11c75956a1&feed=MssIhx9y","summary":"A new year means new books are on the way! So many new books. On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks with fellow Book Review editors Joumana Khatib and MJ Franklin about the upcoming fiction and nonfiction titles they’re most anticipating between now and April.","meta_description":"A new year means new books are on the way! So many new books. On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks with fellow Book Review editors Joumana Khat…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2745,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-book-review-415412/episodes/the-books-we-re-excited-about-in-early-2026/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/the-books-we-re-excited-about-in-early-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}