Books
Looking for book recommendations? What to read, what not to read, and the latest news in the world of books.
Plus, novels for the chronically online, and other recommendations.
Taking life lessons from an anthropomorphic owl.
And other books that will broaden your horizons.
Why don’t you move?
How those little quotes on book covers became a flashpoint.
Use this article … 95 years after I’m dead.
Books to help you understand the world.
How American Psycho became men’s favorite sigma icon.
What happens to supposedly “enlightened” men in the post-Me Too era?
Plus trippy detective novels for when you just miss Twin Peaks.
The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.
Vox’s cultural obsessions of 2024.
8 books that made the case for art in a fraught year.
What 3 new books reveal about where the housing movement goes next.
Books to get you through the next four years.
Author Eman Abdelhadi on imagining a better world.
America and Oz have always had a lot in common.
This is what happens when kids don’t read for pleasure anymore.
Public librarians have to be coders, social workers, and book rec machines. They’re irreplaceable.
In November’s edition of Ask a Book Critic, novels to scratch the surrealist itch, lesbian necromancers in space, and more.
A new book explores the world of tax havens and techno-utopias, and asks if they can be used for good.
The acclaimed writer takes on another intractable problem.
Plus short stories to dip into when life gets busy, and small-town longings.
In the deeply-felt Intermezzo, the celebrity novelist plays chess with God.
Orwell prized clear communication, so why are people misusing his name?
It Ends With Us is at the center of Hoover’s very polarizing body of work.
Vox’s book critic gives you recommendations to scratch your next reading itch.
White House tell-alls age like milk. Why do journalists keep writing them?
And why you feel bad swearing around your friends’ kids, according to a philosopher.
From debut character studies to beloved franchises, here are the best books of the last 6 months.
The bestseller proves Trump’s VP pick has abiding disdain for absolutely everyone.
Reckoning with the late author and Nobel Prize winner’s complicity in her daughter’s abuse.
A conversation with author Nathalie Etoke on Black existentialism and the case for tragic optimism.
Introducing Vox’s Next Page.
Critic Emily Nussbaum makes the case for the guilty pleasure as an art form.
In her new novel All Fours, Miranda July romps where The Idea of You fears to tread.
From hit movies to viral essays, the discourse is rarely about the people inside the relationships.
When AI comes for mushroom foragers.
American conservatives are cozying up to British feminists who argue that the sexual revolution has hurt women.
It’s partly AI, partly a get-rich-quick scheme, and entirely bad for confused consumers.