The Book Review
The New York Times · Arts
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Green Knows a True Hollywood Ending is Complicated | 1:02:06 | 4:40 | 4 | |
| The Best Books of the 21st Century: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on ‘The Corrections’ | 51:43 | 4:32 | 4 | |
| It’s Time for a Big Ol’ Fall Book Preview | 53:41 | 4:31 | 4 | |
| Why We Can’t Resist a Great Bookstore | 29:42 | 3:41 | 4 | |
| This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore) | 47:53 | 2:17 | 3 | |
| Let’s Talk About the 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century | 51:21 | 0:14 | 1 | |
| Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘John of John’ | 59:15 | 6:33 | 6 | |
| Let’s Talk About the Best Books of the Year (So Far) | 39:12 | 0:41 | 3 | |
| This Author Says You Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by ‘The Odyssey’ | 46:30 | 3:20 | 3 | |
| Jill Lepore on What to Read This Fourth of July | 55:53 | 3:49 | 3 | |
| Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Yesteryear,' by Caro Claire Burke | 1:00:59 | 4:39 | 4 | |
| Art, Outrage and How the Culture Wars Began | 39:05 | 4:08 | 4 | |
| The Best Books of the 21st Century: Ryan Holiday on ‘The Road’ | 40:47 | 4:14 | 4 | |
| A Summer Book Recommendation Bonanza | 46:53 | 4:11 | 3 | |
| Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Transcription,' by Ben Lerner | 49:49 | 3:18 | 3 | |
| The Ezra Klein Show: Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness | 1:31:48 | 4:13 | 3 | |
| Matt Haig on ‘The Midnight Library,’ Mental Illness and Winnie-the-Pooh | 46:38 | 4:42 | 4 | |
| Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels | 1:03:08 | 3:58 | 3 | |
| ‘The Book Review’ Podcast Turns 20 | 1:07:52 | 2:40 | 3 | |
| Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Renovation,' by Kenan Orhan | 44:53 | 2:40 | 3 | |
| The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading | 39:54 | 4:05 | 3 | |
| Patrick Radden Keefe on the Mystery at the Center of ‘London Falling’ | 35:34 | 1:03 | 2 | |
| 23 Books We Are Looking Forward to This Spring | 50:14 | 2:49 | 3 | |
| Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Kin,' by Tayari Jones | 49:06 | 2:41 | 4 |
Ad load varies by listener. Most podcast advertising is dynamically inserted, so figures reflect ad load as observed by YAPP's processing pipeline at the time each episode was fetched, not what any individual listener hears. Methodology
Listening to The Book Review with YAPP
The Book Review typically runs 3.4 ad breaks per episode, usually a pre-roll and one or two mid-rolls. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 3.5 minutes per episode, or 4.1 minutes for every hour of listening.
YAPP maps each episode before you play it, so you get the show and not the rest of it. Because the ads are stitched in per listener, YAPP matches what you are actually hearing rather than replaying a fixed set of timestamps.
How these numbers are measured
YAPP transcribes each episode, classifies advertising segments, and refines their boundaries using audio fingerprinting. Figures cover the 24 episodes of this show that YAPP has processed. Because most podcast ads are dynamically inserted and vary by listener, these figures reflect what our pipeline observed rather than what every listener hears. Full methodology
Boundaries for 8% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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