Books
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Enemies to lovers, And Then There Were None, and the other tropes of Tamsyn Muir’s genre-busting space opera.
From Piranesi to A Promised Land, 15 new books for understanding and surviving 2020.
Reading Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save in the year of the plague.
The author isn’t sure how much she believes her own unreliable narrator.
Author Anne Helen Petersen on why millennials have internalized the worst parts of their condition.
Announcing our dual picks for December and January.
A classic of children’s literature captures the warmth and comfort of Thanksgiving.
“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: TV critic James Poniewozik explains the multimedia character Trump created.
To make sense of the ending of Trust Exercise, stop thinking of the characters as individuals.
A Promised Land is a vexed, mournful account of a presidency fraught with obstacles.
From Black church ladies to undocumented immigrants, here’s what this year’s shortlist looked like.
Audience questions are encouraged.
The author of Mexican Gothic spoke at the Vox Book Club live event about the nexus of power, sex, and fairy tales in the gothic novel.
Pop culture is America’s subconscious. Right now, it’s worried about work.
Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise is the Vox Book Club pick for November.
Alex Mar’s 2015 book “Witches of America” is about a lot more than witches.
They’re not actually connected. But the story spread anyway.
Diana Wynne Jones’s classic is a joyful love letter to middle school weirdos.
Independent bookstores are doing everything they can to stay in business.
Why this computer scientist thinks reality might be a video game.
The Witches is a weird, unfunny lesson in how not to adapt Roald Dahl’s classic — and problematic — horror tale.
The new adaptation plays like an eighth grader read the SparkNotes and badly misunderstood them.
The gothic novel is the perfect genre for thinking about empires.
The award-winning author joins The Ezra Klein Show.
Our next live event will take place on October 29, and you can RSVP now.
Glück’s 2004 poem “October” is a salve for October 2020.
Cop stories are under scrutiny right now. The Searcher offers a new perspective.
How the influential adviser went from right-wing troll to the driving force behind Trumpism.
The list includes Rumaan Alam and Jenn Shapland.
The author of The Idiot joins the Vox Book Club to talk about sequels, Russian literature, and what the novel means today.
This award-winning book is equal parts Game of Thrones, Cold War realpolitik, anti-colonialist tale, and Star Wars prequel.
In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, the real gothic is colonialism.
Vox’s book critic recommends books to fit your very specific mood.
Art does not have to be political satire to help us reckon with the world.
In the detective novel Troubled Blood, Rowling spends most of her time explaining why she’s mad at modern feminism.
A chat about his new book with co-author Robert Pollin.
The author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell returns after 16 years.
The controversy over Woodward’s new book Rage is part of a larger debate over journalistic ethics.
A new anthology of Hanawalt’s early work shows how she uses talking animals to present the world with visceral honesty.
What did Trump know about the coronavirus? And what did Woodward know?