Book Review Podcast: Unusual Immigrants in New York This week in The New York Times Book Review, Susann Cokal reviews Helene Wecker's new novel, "The Golem and the Jinni," which follows two folkloric creatures who emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York. Ms. Cokal writes: In Helene Wecker's first novel, two more than usually disoriented foreigners emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York. One is a golem, a clay woman fashioned near Danzig, then shipped across the ocean as the wife of a man who inconveniently dies on the voyage. The other is a jinni from the Syrian desert, trapped inside a copper flask until a hapless tinsmith sets him free during a routine repair. "It was ludicrous," thinks the surprised tinker. Such things were only stories. But then, the only alternative was to conclude that he'd gone mad. There is in fact plenty of madness in this clever story, but the magic of it often makes more sense than the ways of the humans with whom the golem and the jinni now live. On this week's podcast, Ms. Wecker discusses her novel; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; David Carr talks about David Sedaris's "Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls"; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news.