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Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against ebooks. There were unintended consequences.
Everyone benefits from welfare. Here’s why most people don’t know that.
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JKR just ruined Harry Potter, Merry Christmas.
The surprisingly long ripple effect of the Jennifer Weiner-Jonathan Franzen feud.
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The most important books of the decade, according to Vox staff.
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Our book critic’s 15 favorite books of 2019 include Irish schoolkids in love and lesbian necromancers in space.
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. explores everyday misogyny with vicious precision.
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Most detective series have to keep their characters static. Here’s how Tana French avoids that.
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Jack Thorne explains what it’s like to adapt Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, and The Secret Garden.
The Vox staff reviewed all the finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
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In the Dream House grapples with finding ways to talk about an abusive relationship between two women.
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And why this professor thinks we need a revolution.
These books will help you understand the world and make it a better place.
The bracingly commonsense magic of Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle is on full display in the new Folio Society edition.
Author James Andrew Miller, who has done warts-and-all books about Saturday Night Live and ESPN, is working on his next project.
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In André Aciman’s new novel, Elio and Oliver reunite at last. Eventually.
“The boomers inherited a rich, dynamic country and have gradually bankrupted it.”
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A new book outlines how meritocracy imprisons us all.
Propaganda has evolved, and it’s transforming politics.
The two-time Oscar nominee turned the scratch material from his award-winning animations into a tale of a weird apocalypse.
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YA superstar Bardugo explores the occult side of Yale’s secret societies in her first adult novel.
It lets him pull off a very cool trick in his new book, Movies (And Other Things).
Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke have won the Nobel Prize for literature. Handke’s win is complicated.
Marlon James and Susan Choi are among the 25 finalists.
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The Golden Compass’ Lyra is now 20, sadder, and maybe not wiser.
This book explains why conspiracism is on the rise in American politics.
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The Goldfinch movie flopped. But its problems go back to its Pulitzer-winning source material.