Who better to talk about the complicated personalities of the two presidential candidates than legendary

New York Times colonist Maureen Dowd?

She'll be here to talk about all of that and her new book, The Year of Voting Dangerously.

Suddenly, you know, this reality star sort of coordinated onto the stage and came down

the golden escalator and change politics forever, maybe.

How do you fall in love in a foreign language that you don't speak?

Lauren Collins explores this and other cross-cultural matters of the heart and her new book, When

in French.

What am I missing?

Because since he had two languages and I only had one, I felt like he had all the information.

He could go both ways.

I was the one who was lacking.

Also, literary news and what we and other people are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

The drama This Election Season is a gift to someone like Maureen Dowd, who's been observing

politicians and our political system for years.

Her latest book, The Year of Voting Dangerously, collects her columns about the 2016 presidential

race and her years of covering Clinton and Trump.

I'm so happy to welcome to the podcast, Maureen Dowd.

Maureen, thanks for being here.

Thank you, Pamela.

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