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This terrific debut novel uses heists and alchemy to deconstruct immigrant ambition, striving, and sin.
The book features a whimsical train, two pet mongooses, and existential dread.
Alderman explains how to build a world in a live Zoom interview with our book critic.
The director built his long, storied career atop a series of brilliant collaborations with people who made him better.
Our book critic recommends apocalyptic fiction and more.
Nigerian novelist Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji is ferocious and kaleidoscopic.
Beverly Cleary has died at 104. Her Ramona Quimby books gave us one of the sharpest characters in American kid lit.
Author Julian Aguon on the destruction the American military wrought on the Pacific Islands — and how to find hope in loss.
Art by marginalized communities exists for reasons other than educating others.
What C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed can tell us about our year of loss.
Hate crimes against Asian Americans go back centuries. We asked experts which books to read to understand the history.
From Contagion to World War Z to Palm Springs, what the artists who foresaw the pandemic are thinking now.
The book starts as an empowerment fantasy and turns into a dystopia.
The novelist joins the Vox Book Club to discuss her smash hit debut.
The debate over Dr. Seuss, explained.
Klara and the Sun is Ishiguro’s first novel since his 2017 Nobel Prize win. It’s quiet and tender.
Read along with us as we delve into Naomi Alderman’s award-winning dystopia.
A new book from Twitter’s greatest poet is strange and sad and beautiful.
The Vox February book pick is assured and cutting.
In Raven Leilani’s novel, family traumas echo across romance.
Amid the pandemic, lots of people are turning to Nextdoor for help. That’s not always what they find.
Locked Tomb author Tamsyn Muir to angry girls who read her books: “It’s for you. Go nuts.”
Chase away the winter doldrums with the Vox Book Club.
The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen’s experimental three-volume memoir, is a stunning portrait of addiction and ambition.
As Fitzgerald’s classic enters the public domain, 3 cover designers face the “nerve-wracking” struggle of redesigning its jacket.
7 poets — including Saeed Jones, Alex Dimitrov, and Patty Crane — meditate on the year we’ve had, the one ahead, and our dark, persistent past.
Her last book, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, tapped into what made the late writer an icon.
The 22-year-old, who was the US’s first youth poet laureate, wrote “The Hill We Climb” the night of the Capitol riot.
The former president fits into a long line of ravenous, miserable literary characters.
The book’s hot-button premise could only be handled by a trans novelist.
How the right made the word “Orwellian” an empty cliché.
Two critics spiral on how much they love Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb Trilogy.
Vox gender reporter Anna North talks about rewriting the myth of the American Western in her new novel Outlawed.
The Big Five book publishers embraced the right wing. Now they’re starting to back away.
Books that find joy in everyday life, to help you through the new year — or a bad breakup.
The Hard Tomorrow is about seeing dark times ahead and choosing to live.
What 26 Vox staffers consumed this year to get them through the darkness.
Dylan Thomas’s prose poem will make your Zoom Christmas festive.
This January, we’re talking lesbian necromancers in space.
Publishing began 2020 with an explosion and ended with a contraction.