The Book Show

The editor of The New York Review of Books, Robert Silvers, talks about Philip Roth's new novel Indignation. He also discusses the tragic story of scientist Nikolai Vavilov, persecuted in Stalinist Russia, and an essay by British travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron about Marco Polo's extraordinary 13th century journey east from Europe into the exotic lands of the Mongol Empire.

Further Information

The New York Review of Books

Publications

Title: Indignation
Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN 9780 2240 8513 7

Title: The Travels of Marco Polo
Publisher: Everyman
ISBN-13 9781 8415 9313 5 To be published in Australia in November

Title: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century
Author: Peter Pringle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN 9780-7432-6498-3

Presenter

Ramona Koval

Producer

Michael Shirrefs

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