The Book Review Creators & Guests

Pamela Paul is a writer and editor. She was the editor of The New York Times Book Review, where she oversaw all book coverage for The New York Times. She was also the host of the weekly Book Review podcast.Previously, Paul was a columnist for The New York Times, where she wrote the "Studied" column. She also wrote about financial issues and family for Worth Magazine. She has also been a contributor to Time magazine, and a regular writer for The Atlantic. Earlier in her career, she worked as senior editor at American Demographics magazine. She is also a former London- and New York-based correspondent to The Economist, where she wrote a monthly arts column.Paul has written or co-written six books. She has appeared on television and radio shows in the U.S., Canada, and in the UK, speaking about social and cultural trends, literature and publishing, and on her books.She is the author of six books: ” The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony” was named one of the best books of 2002 by The Washington Post; her second book, “Pornified,” was named one of the best books of 2005 by The San Francisco Chronicle. She is also the author of “Parenting, Inc.”, “By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review,” “My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues” and “How to Raise a Reader,” co-written with Maria Russo..Paul has been a contributor to Time magazine and The Economist, and a columnist for The New York Times Sunday Styles section and Worth magazine. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue.

Laura Miller is a journalist and critic. Currently, she is a books and culture columnist for Slate.In 1995, Miller co-founded Salon, one of the first online-only magazines, where she worked as an editor and staff writer for twenty years. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, the Guardian, and the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the “Last Word” column.Miller has written two books, "The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia" (2008), and "Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created" (2016).

Bonnie Rochman is a journalist and author. Her first book, "The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have," was published in 2017.Previously, Rochman was health and parenting columnist for TIME magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Scientific American, and O, The Oprah Magazine.Rochman was a TIME intern, and has reported from the Middle East, Myanmar and Vietnam for the Boston Globe, the Jerusalem Report and Fortune. Prior to that, she was the parenting blogger for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

Sam Tanenhaus is a historian, biographer, and journalist. Currently, he writes for Prospect.Tanenhaus was an assistant editor at The New York Times from, then a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, then editor of The New York Times Book Review. He is a visiting professor at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, where he virtually teaches courses on American politics and media studies.Tanenhaus's first book, "Literature Unbound," was publised in 1986. In 1997, his biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Tanenhaus received his B.A. in English from Grinnell College and his M.A. in English Literature from Yale University.

Dr. Caroline Elizabeth Weber is an author and fashion historian. Currently, she is a professor of French and comparative literature at Columbia University.Weber began her academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, then became a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania, then a professor at Columbia University.Weber's first book, "Terror and its Discontents: Suspect Words and the French Revolution," was published in 2003. Her second book, "Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the French Revolution," was published in 2007.Weber received her B.A. in literature from Harvard University and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in French literature from Yale University.

Adam Kirsch is a poet and literary critic. Currently, he is on the seminar faculty of Columbia University's Center for American Studies, an editor of the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Review section, and poetry editor of The New Criterion.Kirsch's poems have appeared in Paris Review, Partisan Review, the Formalist, Harvard Review, and the New Criterion. His first book, the collection "The Thousand Wells," was published in 2002. He has published four collections of poetry, six books on literary criticism, and three biographies.

Suzy Hansen is a journalist and writer. She is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.Hansen worked as an editor at The New York Observer until 2007, when she received a fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to conduct research in Turkey. She also visited Greece, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan to investigate how American influence caused trouble and misfortune for civilians in these countries.Hansen's work has appeared The New Republic, Vogue, and National Geographic. Her first book, "Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World," was published in 2018.Hansen received her degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ann Hulbert is an editor and an author. She is currently the literary editor at The Atlantic.Before coming to The Atlantic, Hulbert was the literary editor of Slate magazine.Hulbert's books include "Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children," and "The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford."Hubert's articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic.Hubert is a graduate of Harvard and spent a year at Cambridge University..

Samanth Subramanian is a journalist and author. Currently, he is a senior reporter covering the future of capitalism for Quartz magazine.Previously, Subramanian was a deputy editor for special projects at Mint, the Indian business newspaper, and a former sub-editor at CricInfo.com, a cricket news website. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and WIRED.Subramanian's first book, "Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast," was published in 2010. His second book, "This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War," was published in 2015, and was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. His third book, "A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane," was published in 2019.Subramanian received his B.A. in Journalism from Penn State University, and his M.A. in International Relations from Columbia University.

Dana Goldstein is a journalist and author whose work focuses on politics, education, and women's issues. She is currently a domestic correspondent at The New York Times.Previously, Goldstein was a staff writer at The Marshall Project and an associate editor at The Daily Beast. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, The New Republic, and Politico.Goldstein's first book, "The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession," was published in 2014.Goldstein was raised in Ossining, New York. She received her degree in European intellectual and cultural history with a focus on gender from Brown University.

Sheryl Sandberg is a technology executive, activist, author, and billionaire. She is the chief operating officer of Facebook and founder of Leanin.

Sarah Lyall is a journalist best known for having been the London Correspondent for The New York Times for 18 years. Having returned to New York, she is now a NYT writer at large, covering sports, culture, media and international stories.Lyall's first book, The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British," was published in 2008.Lyall joined the New York Times in 1987 as a clerk in the Washington Bureau. She went on to become a reporter for the metro desk, then she covered book publishing for the culture section.Lyall received her B.A. in History from Yale University, where she was an editor at the Yale Daily News.

Kerri Greenidge is a historian and academic.

Michael Lewis is a renowned American author and financial journalist known for his insightful books on business and economics. His notable works include "Liar's Poker," "The Big Short," and "Moneyball," which have been adapted into critically acclaimed films. Lewis's writing often explores the complexities of financial markets and the human stories within them, earning him a reputation for making complex topics accessible and engaging. His contributions to journalism and literature have garnered numerous awards and solidified his status as a leading voice in contemporary nonfiction.

Rachel Louise Snyder is a writer, professor and public radio commentator. Her first book, Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, was published in 2007. An excerpt of the book aired on This American Life and won an Overseas Press Club Award. Her second book was a novel entitled What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and was published 2014. Her third book, No Visible Bruises, was published in 2019. Her work has also appeared in the the New Yorker, New York Times magazine, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Men’s Journal, Jane, Travel and Leisure, the New Republic, Redbook and Glamour. She hosted the global affairs series “Latitudes” on public radio, and her stories have aired on Marketplace and All Things Considered. She is currently an assistant professor in the MFA creative writing program at American University.

Matthew Schneier is a features writer and reporter for New York Magazine and The Cut. Previously, he was a reporter with the Styles section of the New York Times.

Jeffrey Toobin is a lawyer, blogger, author, pundit, and legal analyst for CNN & The New Yorker.

Robert Gottlieb is an American writer and editor. He has been editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker.

Robert Kolker is a former contributing editor at New York Magazine, a former projects and investigations reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek, and the author of Lost Girls, a book that was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2013.