Hello, I'm Gilbert Cruz, and this is the book review from the New York Times.

Today, I want you to imagine a scenario.

You wake up one morning, and you start to go about your day as you do every day, and an eerie feeling begins to arise.

Everything seems familiar.

Too familiar.

Eventually, a realization starts to creep into your mind.

Is it possible you're reliving yesterday?

You go through the day, the day passes, you get to sleep, quote, tomorrow arrives, and it is the same day yet again.

And then it is the same day yet again. Somehow you have become stuck in time.

Well, it's Groundhog Day again.

That's what we're here to talk about, not Groundhog Day, the classic 1993 film starring Bill Murray.

We are here to talk about another hit time loop story.

This one, a seven book series written by the Danish author Solvebala.

It's called On the Calculation of Volume.

And since its English translations first published in

2024, it has been nominated for several major awards and has become something of an under-the-rater

phenomenon among the literary set. Book four in this series has just been published here in

America, and I have two of my colleagues from the book review here to talk about the series. A.O. Scott, Tony Scott, our critic at large, and Jumana Khatib, an editor here in my frequent guest, my frequent foil.

Jumana, welcome.

Thank you, Gilbert.

Tony, welcome. Hi, good to be here. Jumana, you're going you, Gilbert. Tony, welcome.

Hi, good to be here.

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