Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Court and the World’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, John Fabian Witt talks about Stephen Breyer’s new book; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Mira Jacob discusses three new coming-of-age novels; Sam Tanenhaus reminisces about the podcast; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Should a law in France have an impact on what's considered legal in America?
0:07.0	John Whit joins us to talk about Justice Stephen Breyer's new book, The Court and the World,
0:11.7	American Law and the new global realities.
0:14.4	Judges, jurists have tried desperately to figure out what the Constitution means and they've
0:19.2	made reference to foreign and international experience.
0:21.9	They just had to.
0:22.9	What makes a good coming of age novel?
0:25.4	The rejectable tell us about her review of three new novels on the short list.
0:30.0	Naomi's book and Sarah's book are both about that transformation when you're sort of in
0:35.7	a moment and you are turning actively from one person into another and the world is testing
0:41.7	you in that way.
0:43.0	Alexander Altar will fill us in on the latest in the literary world.
0:46.2	Greg Cole's Has Best Cellar News.
0:48.4	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:50.1	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:55.4	John Fabian Whit joins us now.
1:01.1	He is a professor of law and history at Yale and the author most recently of Lincoln's
1:06.2	Code, The Laws of War and American History.
1:08.6	And this week he reviews on our cover a new book by Justice Stephen Breyer, The Court
1:13.7	and the World, American Law and the new global realities.
1:17.4	John, welcome.
1:18.4	Hi, thanks.
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