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How Stephanie Land went from Vox article to book deal to Netflix show.
The National Book Award-nominated novel brings the swaggering brilliance of 12th-century poet Marie de France to towering life.
America’s upper-middle class works more, optimizes their kids, and is miserable.
Sci-fi author Becky Chambers explains how to build a better alien and how to imagine hopeful futures.
Oprah, Franzenfreude, and Iraqi war orphans: a look back at Jonathan Franzen’s many controversies.
Demand for books is way up this year. Supplies are way, way down.
Franzen’s latest novel is thrillingly furious and surprisingly tender.
If you’d like to read about witchy feminist medieval nuns, then boy, do we have a book for you.
Why you can’t unlock this novel’s secret meaning.
The Vox Book Club joins the author of Piranesi at the end of September for a live Zoom chat.
Beautiful World, Where Are You is unlikely to be a crowd pleaser. But it’s gorgeous.
Spend September with the haunted, haunting Piranesi, from the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
The scholars who wrote Madwoman in the Attic return 42 years later, still mad.
The Upper East Side gets bloody in Virginia Feito’s vicious, gorgeous thriller.
The family with three Nazis, two socialists, and a duchess, explained.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a bizarre and thrilling story about lust and war and shame.
We Keep the Dead Close explores a murder at Harvard and the stories we tell about crime.
Our book critic recommends good summer reading and more.
Reading Zola’s story as an epic poem.
After Cosby’s vacated conviction, is rape a crime?
Twitter had a field day with Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter.” Now, the author is speaking out.
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Can fiction about police be healing in 2021? Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache books make a very good case.
We’re having the wrong conversation.
Join the Vox Book Club in discussing our June pick.
It’s a love letter to Black women and an indictment of publishing.
How indie artist and Crying in H Mart author Michelle Zauner wrote an album about joy and a memoir about loss.
Cruella de Vil has been a style icon since she first set foot on the page.
Sathian discussed her debut novel in a Zoom Q&A with the Vox Book Club.
Rumaan Alam’s National Book Award finalist is the Vox Book Club’s pick for June.
Stacey Abrams wrote a thriller. People said the president was too evil. Then came Trump.
As former Trump officials and other polarizing figures seek book deals, publishing is caught in a generational battle that’s becoming an existential crisis.
In the Vox Book Club’s May pick, sin is petty and low-stakes. That’s what makes the book work.
Our May book features alchemy, heists, and diaspora politics.
The author of The Death of Vivek Oji spoke with the Vox Book Club for our April live event.
The Second Place is Cusk’s first novel since the breakaway success of her Outline trilogy.
Join us in reading Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian’s gripping debut novel.
The Blake Bailey story shows publishing’s institutions once again working to protect men.
In Akwaeki Emezi’s ferocious and kaleidoscopic novel, the real mystery is whether Vivek truly lived.