What to make of Casuo Ishaeguro's Body of Work and his latest novel,

where Dika Jones will join us to talk about Clara and the Sun,

the new novel by the Nobel Prize winning author.

What makes Mike Nichols such a genius, Mark Harris will be here to talk about his new biography.

Alexander Alter will have an update from the publishing world,

plus my colleagues and I will talk about what we're reading.

This is the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times. It's March 5th. I'm Pamela Paul.

Dika Jones joins us now from Brooklyn, New York. She is the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair

magazine and this week she reviews the new novel by Casuo Ishaeguro, Clara and the Sun.

Dika, thanks for being here. Hi, thanks for having me. So for those who are not aware,

Dika is still one of us, we think, here at the New York Times. She was formerly the editorial director

of the bookstask before working at Vanity Fair, where you've been now for more than three years,

right? Yeah, just a little over three years. What is it like doing that job in quarantine?

We're so used to it now. I know. It's a year old question.

It feels almost normal, which I never thought I'd say, but I will tell you this week we

released our Hollywood issue, which is traditionally an enormous photo production,

you know, to create a three-panel gatefold cover and it's a big group portrait. So obviously,

in the age of COVID, group portraits are rather challenging and unsafe. And so we decided we needed

an artist who would be up for the challenge. So we enlisted Maurizio Cadelan and Purepello Ferrari,

the Italian conceptual artist, to do a remote shoot with 10 people. They ended up photographing people

remotely over 10 days on four continents, all through laptops and, you know, very small

local sets. And it was really an amazing feat. And so with every issue, with every day covering

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