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In Emily St. John Mandel’s new book Sea of Tranquility, the apocalypse is ongoing. So is life.
We live in an age of misinformation. Sandy Hook was just the beginning.
Juliet and her Romeo are dead, but Romeo and Juliet lives forever.
The Vox Book Club’s April pick is a tour de force short story collection.
“We need fiction like we need water.”
The ambitious, kaleidoscopic follow-up to A Visit From the Goon Squad sticks the landing.
Is it all just part of a capitalist plot? Well?? Is it???
The Vox Book Club’s April pick is a ferociously smart set of short stories that read like fairy tales for the 21st century.
How the Best Picture nominee digs into Murakami and Chekhov.
Benjamín Labatut’s nonfiction novel is haunting and astonishing.
When will Hollywood discover Georgette Heyer?
Julia May Jonas’s dreamy debut novel Vladimir arrives with its teeth out.
Explore the cosmic awe and horror of science with Vox Book Club and Unexplainable.
From Lucy Dacus to Danny McBride, more great art is examining evangelicalism’s relationship to America.
What’s at stake? Who gets to control the story of America.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1969 sci-fi tour de force can still teach us something about human connection.
The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest sees Indians haunted by the ghosts of vengeful white people.
Romance authors are philosophers of love. Here’s how they think about chemistry.
Northanger Abbey’s comedy has serious takeaways for the aspiring romantic heroine.
Erdrich, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021, is the Vox Book Club’s latest guest.
The Locked Tomb series continues with Nona the Ninth. Check out the exclusive cover reveal.
The author of A Little Life and To Paradise writes long, voluptuous books all about human pain.
Art reminds us that survival after apocalypse is insufficient.
The Vox Book Club’s January pick delves into our collective internet consciousness.
The power of Didion’s prose lay in what she didn’t say.
Writer and critic Lauren Oyler skewers the needy posturing of our online selves.
The book series is a triumph of world-building, with sneakily compelling characters.
Emily St. John Mandel’s beloved novel should be difficult to adapt for TV. The HBO Max version reinvents it.
How Impeachment, Spencer, and Katie Couric are rethinking the diet culture of the ’90s.
These book recommendations from the Vox staff will make you laugh, cry, and really think.
The Vox Book Club is reading Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This and Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts.
Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen on why we need to rethink the role of work in our lives.
Kiley Reid’s debut novel reveals the lie behind the claims that the Obama age was post-racial.
Here’s what this year’s best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature is all about.
11 books to read this fall, from a history of music to a novel of millennial precarity.
I can’t stop thinking about this silly book about overconsumption and lost history.
“The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile. Only children owe nothing.”
Kiley Reid’s debut novel has one of literature’s cringiest Thanksgiving scenes.
Why be so nasty and so rude when you could read this book about The Real Housewives?
Denis Villeneuve’s new big-screen adaptation underlines why generations have been fascinated by the story.