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This January, we’re talking lesbian necromancers in space.
Enemies to lovers, And Then There Were None, and the other tropes of Tamsyn Muir’s genre-busting space opera.
The author isn’t sure how much she believes her own unreliable narrator.
Announcing our dual picks for December and January.
To make sense of the ending of Trust Exercise, stop thinking of the characters as individuals.
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.
Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise is the Vox Book Club pick for November.
The gothic novel is the perfect genre for thinking about empires.
Our next live event will take place on October 29, and you can RSVP now.
The author of The Idiot joins the Vox Book Club to talk about sequels, Russian literature, and what the novel means today.
In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, the real gothic is colonialism.
Art does not have to be political satire to help us reckon with the world.
The Idiot is playing some very complex language games. The Vox Book Club breaks it down.
Our next live event will take place on September 30, and you can RSVP now.
Bennett joined the Vox Book Club to discuss why she doesn’t write identity as a problem to to be solved.
School this year will be strange. But you can still go back to campus in a book.
An expert on Black literature explains why The Vanishing Half works like a call and response.
“Passing for white never left.”
Our August event will take place live on Zoom at the end of the month.
“It’s kind of flabbergasting how disrespectfully Hillary Clinton has been treated.”
Brit Bennett’s sophomore novel is our latest pick.
President Jerry Brown?
You can RSVP now.
The Vox Book Club digs into why we’re fascinated by fiction about politicians.
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.
Join Constance Grady, Soraya McDonald, and Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz live on Zoom.
William Goldman loved The Princess Bride so much he could never quite end it. We can’t either.
Plus, the battle of wits, the Fire Swamp, and the Machine.
The Princess Bride is a celebration of pure swashbuckling adventure.
The Vox Book Club’s live event covered how The Secret History fits into dark academia and why Bunny would be the worst at quarantine.
Prepare to read.
After a month of conversation, it’s time to talk murder, Bacchanalias, and liberal arts curriculums.
The classics kids face their final death at the end of The Secret History.
You know things are getting rough when Henry wants a television.
Our book club tackles the first half of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.
Murder cults! Idyllic college campuses! A May where you can’t go outside is the perfect time to read The Secret History.
“Manhattan is literally built on trash and blood.”
The Woman in White reveals her true identity at last.