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- 1. Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’ · 31 Jul 2026
- 2. Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century · 5 Aug 2026
Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
5 Aug 2026 · 51 min
What are the best thrillers published since 2000? That was the question that the team at The New York Times’s Book Review posed to hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrillers to spy novels to cozy mysteries, as well as librarians,
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’
31 Jul 2026 · 55 min
Early in Douglas Stuart’s new novel, “John of John,” the Booker Prize-winning author describes a peculiar irony: “What skinned him was that the closer he got to home, the more lost he felt.” It’s a passing line, but it captures the tension at the heart of this
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