Book Review

This week, Orville Schell and John Delury discuss “Wealth and Power,” their new book about Chinese history; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Mason B. Williams talks about “City of Ambition”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Peter Biskind and Henry Jaglom discuss “My Lunches With Orson”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Brett Martin talks about “Difficult Men,” his book about TV antiheroes; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Robert Kolker talks about “Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Chuck Klosterman discusses “I Wear the Black Hat”; Meghan O’Rourke on her essay about authors “recording their own deaths as they happen”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Anita Raghavan discusses her new book, “The Billionaire’s Apprentice”; Jon Mooallem talks about “Wild Ones” and endangered species; Adam LeBor on the difficulty of writing thrillers; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Andrew Delbanco discusses two new books about the state of higher education; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Andrew O’Hehir talks about “The Fall of Arthur,” by J. R. R. Tolkien; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Daniel Bergner talks about the science of female desire; Philipp Meyer discusses his second novel, “The Son”; Margalit Fox on her new book, “The Riddle of the Labyrinth”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Anthony Marra discusses his novel, “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”; Lauren Sandler talks about “One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Peter Lattman talks about the new memoir by the tennis star Jimmy Connors; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Alexandra Jacobs discusses Patricia Volk’s “Shocked”; Anthony Gottlieb on Ruth R. Wisse’s “No Joke: Making Jewish Humor”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Elliott Holt discusses her novel “You Are One of Them”; Rick Atkinson discusses his “The Guns at Last Light”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Helene Wecker discusses her novel “The Golem and the Jinni”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; David Carr talks about David Sedaris’s “Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Harold Evans discusses two new books about the events leading up to World War I; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Pamela Paul talks about the spring children’s books section; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Claire Messud discusses her new novel, “The Woman Upstairs”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Ramona Ausubel talks about her new short-story collection, “A Guide to Being Born”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Tom Perrotta talks about the letters of Willa Cather; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Alexandra Starr discusses T. D. Allman’s “Finding Florida”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. John Williams is the host, filling in for Pamela Paul.

This week, Meg Wolitzer talks about her new novel, “The Interestings”; Rachel Shteir discusses three new books about Chicago; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

This week, Sam Tanenhaus signs off as host, handing over the reins to Pamela Paul, the new editor of the Book Review, and hearing from past contributors.