Our Critics' Year in Reading

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs look back on the books that have stuck with them in 2023.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times Book Review, and this is the Book Review
0:08.1	Podcast.
0:09.1	Well, we've revealed our list of 100 notable books of the year. We narrowed those 100
0:15.6	down to a mere 10 and we podcasted about them and now it's time for our annual
0:20.8	critics roundtable in which our daily critics talk about
0:24.0	their years in reading. I would like to say we're approaching the limits of books
0:29.3	from this year that we can discuss but as we all know there are no limits we could do this all day so let us
0:34.8	bring on our critics.
0:37.0	I'm now joined by Dwight Garner. Hello Dwight.
0:44.0	Hey Gilbert.
0:45.0	Jen's a lie. Hi Jen.
0:46.0	Hi Gilbert.
0:48.0	And Alexandra Jacobs.
0:49.0	Hi Gilbert.
0:50.0	So Dwight, you have read a lot of books this year all three of you have
0:54.0	read so many books this year and the three of you recently published a piece
0:57.8	looking back on your year in reading Dwight your section was delightfully stylish as always I could go down the list of all the things you remember
1:06.7	but I would love to start by focusing on three writers that release books this year
1:12.0	people that you characterize as late books
1:14.4	from American Masters Richard Ford, Lori Moore and Anne Beatty.
1:19.4	All these three are like classic cars right coming down the highway towards you it's
1:23.6	funny as a book critic we get to pick just one book a week for each week and we have
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