Gregory Cowles
Senior editor at The New York Times Book Review who offers close readings, character breakdowns, and contextual recommendations during the Book Club discussion.
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Jan 30, 2026 • 50min
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Hounding' by Xenobe Purvis
Gregory Cowles, senior editor who breaks down characters; Emily Eakin, critic who frames themes; Joumana Khatib, editor offering close readings. They discuss Xenobe Purvis’s gothic fable about five sisters pursued by a fearful village. Conversation covers shifting narrators, ambiguous supernatural hints, misogyny and mob dynamics, striking animal imagery, and drought as symbolic pressure.
