Books Archive
Archives for December 2014

Vox editors, writers, and designers on the titles that grabbed their attention this year.


David Mitchell’s genre-spanning new novel, The Bone Clocks, is one of the year’s best. Here’s why.

He’s written with Wes Anderson, directed terrific movies, and now gotten involved in Amazon’s latest bid for streaming domination.


Why we might be headed for a Clinton vs. Bush election.

Mass pandemics? Yes. Artificial intelligence? Nope.


A Q&A with the physician and science writer on his new book.


The secrets behind some of the web’s most popular charts and graphs


“It all happened like this: one very windy day last November my hood blew off and went and stuck on the top of the North Pole.”


The group has hacked Sony before — and could be linked to this attack.


Drug-resistant infections, Ebola, and fixing a broken clinical trials system are among the big ones.


Education reporting is complex, incremental, and not seen as nationally important.


Ivan Oransky is basically the Perez Hilton of science blogs.


But there’s good news: it contains some hidden lessons about food.


“The more time spent per page of book, the better critics rated it.”


From high school true crime to a hilarious parody, here are some things that can fill the void Serial left in your life.