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Ripley fails to capture what makes Highsmith’s book so compelling.
With A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas has established herself as the reigning queen of romantasy.
The revolutionary left’s theory of the climate crisis puts ideology above inconvenient truths.
The first novel by the acclaimed short-story writer is magical, strange, and just a tad too slow.
Don’t think of love as a language. Experts say to think of love as a balanced diet instead.
The author of Such a Fun Age returns with a hit-and-miss sophomore effort, tracing lines of power with money.
The Argylle authorship controversy, explained.
Leon Uris’s bestselling epic Exodus — and its hit movie adaptation starring Paul Newman — influenced generations of Americans, from the suburbs to the State Department.
The Color Purple is a melodrama — and the new movie musical keeps its traditions alive.
From buzzy novels to literary biographies, Vox’s book critic breaks down the year in reading.
The Hunger Games prequel finds a new wrinkle in a story we thought we knew.
We read all of the 2023 nominees. Here’s what we thought.
And that you should probably wear shoes.
In Walter Isaacson’s buzzy new biography, Elon Musk emerges as a callous, chaos-loving man without empathy.
If you love nature, consider not driving in it.
Groff’s latest is an un-put-down-able story of survival.
The Fraud, a Victorian novel for the post-Trump era, is elegant, flawed, and sharp as a knife.
Patricia C. Wrede just published her first book in a decade. Here’s how she enchanted a generation.
The billionaire’s heroic image is built on media praise, breathless fans, and … romance novel tropes.
Large language models are disrupting the publishing industry, from spam submissions to garbage books.
Librarian secrets to getting into books for the very first time.
The two-time Pulitzer winner is using his Harlem Shuffle trilogy to tell the history of New York.
From shipwrecks to hijackings to sex comedies, these are the best books of the first half of 2023.
Arnold Lobel’s quietly radical creations speak to those who don’t want to live a predetermined life.
Talking Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma with Claire Dederer.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home is weird, funny, gross, and tender.
“Regime Change” sounds like a radical book. It isn’t — and that’s telling.
How Succession’s finale referenced Shakespeare to bring out Kendall’s crumpled ambitions.
A Florida school has restricted who can read “The Hill We Climb,” a poem read at Biden’s 2021 inauguration.
The author’s second novel zooms in on what an artist should be.
New election results suggest voters are mixed at best on the GOP’s educational culture wars.
How today’s fight over pornography is rooted in a 40-year-old feminist schism.
A new movie adaptation captures the sneaky complexity of what Judy Blume’s classic gets right about being 11.
Her latest book, White Cat, Black Dog, is a collection of fairy tales that shimmer with unease.
What the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous American model of time, shows about apocalypse.
BookTok is the only profitable publishing trend of the year. How much of the profit goes to BookTokers?
Two new books, Jenny Odell’s Saving Time and Pooja Laksmin’s Real Self-Care, offer a framework for thinking about the world beyond capitalism.
Heartburn, Ephron’s only novel, just turned 40. It’s an acid bomb of a romance.
Michael Schulman on why the Oscars are always behind the times, and his new book, Oscar Wars.
In her new book Black Archives, Renata Cherlise makes the case for celebrating everyday Black joy.