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Assessing the Facebook Problem

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Feb 1, 2019

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Roger McNamee talks about "Zucked," and Charles Finch discusses the season's best thrillers.

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Feb 1, 2019

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The world's top authors and critics join host Pamela Paul and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading and what's going on in the literary world.

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Inside The New York Times Book Review: Patrick Modiano’s ‘Suspended Sentences’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Guantánamo Diary’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Opposite of Spoiled’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: Shakespeare in Love by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: Mass Murder in Norway by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: When I Grow Up by The Book Review
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Matthew Weiner On the End of ‘Mad Men’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: The War on Drugs by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘H Is for Hawk’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Future of Work by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Folded Clock’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘America’s Bitter Pill’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: Disappearing Religions by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s ‘Loitering’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Folded Clock’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Brothers,’ About the Boston Marathon Bombers by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Stalin’s Daughter’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Skyfaring’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Art Issue by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Life of Saul Bellow’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Last Flight of Poxl West’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘NeuroTribes’ by The Book Review
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Inside The New York Times Book Review: “Reagan: The Life” by The Book Review
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