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Antonin Scalia’s death on Feb. 13, 2016, touched off a tumultuous time in the history of the Supreme Court. Carl Hulse’s new book, “Confirmation Bias,” covers the period including the Republicans’ snub of Merrick Garland’s nomination and the eventual ascent of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the top court.
“One of the reasons the courts are so important now is because our politics and our legislature is so polarized,” Hulse says on this week’s podcast. “Tons of these issues are in the courts, so getting people on the courts, one party or the other, who you think are going to be more aligned with you, has become very, very important, and is really, to me, testing our institutions right now and how they’re going to deal with this challenge.”
De’Shawn Charles Winslow visits the podcast this week to discuss his debut novel, “In West Mills.” Winslow says that he “essentially had no choice” but to tell the novel from the perspective of a woman, despite some trepidation in doing so. “Women, my mother and my aunts and the women in the neighborhood, they taught me everything I know about life,” he says. “I’m gay, and as soon as the men started to pick up on that, they politely excused me or sent me to be with the women.”
Also on this week’s episode, Elizabeth Flock of PBS joins us to discuss the latest pick for Now Read This, a book club from “PBS NewsHour” and The New York Times; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; and Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai talk about the books they’ve recently reviewed. Pamela Paul is the host.
Here are the books discussed by The Times’s critics this week:
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