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The Idiot is playing some very complex language games. The Vox Book Club breaks it down.
Homegoing was a sprawling generational novel. In her new book, Yaa Gyasi narrows her scope.
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Vox’s book critic recommends books to fit your very specific mood.
Mulan is the story of 1,500 years of shifting ideas about gender and virtue.
Bennett joined the Vox Book Club to discuss why she doesn’t write identity as a problem to to be solved.
Junji Ito’s horror has been thoroughly memed — but his new anthology, Venus in the Blind Spot, is still terrifying.
School this year will be strange. But you can still go back to campus in a book.
Alexandre Dumas wrote his famous novel as a revenge fantasy for his father.
The Lying Life of Adults is Elena Ferrante’s first novel since her doxxing. It’s terrific.
“Bro! Tell me we still know how to talk about kings!”
The new HBO horror series is teeming with references to its namesake H.P. Lovecraft, weird fiction, popular midcentury Americana, and more.
The credibility bookcase has become a fundamental part of image-making. Here’s how it worked at the DNC.
An expert on Black literature explains why The Vanishing Half works like a call and response.
Leo Tolstoy’s epic might be the best book ever written, and — hot take here — you should read it.
H.P. Lovecraft was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He was also one of its most racist.
The Roman Republic destroyed itself. Are we on a similar path?
“Passing for white never left.”
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But the new book forgets that the most interesting part of Twilight was always Bella Swan.
A new book tries to untangle the relationship between white identity politics and skyrocketing inequality.
“It’s kind of flabbergasting how disrespectfully Hillary Clinton has been treated.”
Tamsyn Muir’s sequel to Gideon the Ninth threatens to break under the weight of its baroque mythology. It never quite does.
Brit Bennett’s sophomore novel is our latest pick.
In Or What You Will, fantasy grand dame Jo Walton goes meta and frothy.
In six essays, Smith wrestles with quarantine, survivor’s guilt, and American exceptionalism.
President Jerry Brown?
A conversation about solidarity and revolt in Camus’s famous novel.
A pop culture primer on a lifetime of activism.
March tells the story of John Lewis’s civil rights career in unforgettable pictures.
The Song of Achilles is like if The Old Guard was just about Joe and Nicky.
A cosmopolitan Mexico City socialite navigates the provincial horrors of an English manor in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel.
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The Vox Book Club digs into why we’re fascinated by fiction about politicians.
The 213-volume series was built on the pleasures of repetition. Netflix’s new TV series will continue its legacy.
What if Hillary had never married Bill? Vox Book Club is about to find out.
Soraya Nadia McDonald and Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz join Constance Grady to explain why Humperdinck is a lost Trump brother.
Bolton makes clear President Trump’s foreign policy is absolutely terrible — but Bolton’s is much, much worse.
Romance Writers of America represented one of the sexiest and most lucrative genres in books. But writers of color say it didn’t represent them.
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