Every week, Vox’s Constance Grady rounds up a curated selection of the internet’s best news and writing on books. This can include anything from news about major accolades like the National Book Awards and Mann Booker Prize to news about book sales, highly anticipated releases, and publishing industry news, conversations, and controversies. Our weekly roundups are the best way for book lovers to keep up with everything related to the world of books, literature, and publishing.
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The internet’s best writing on books, curated every week.
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December 14, 2019
Why schools refuse to treat Little Women as a great American novel
And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.
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December 7, 2019
This year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award recognizes a passage comparing a penis to a small monkey
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November 30, 2019
Margaret Atwood, a Scorpio, reads palms and does horoscopes
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November 23, 2019
The immense physical labor of narrating an audiobook
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November 16, 2019
How a conspiracy theory about the Bosnian genocide infiltrated the Nobel committee
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November 9, 2019
Richard Ford, who just won a prestigious literary award, once spat at Colson Whitehead
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November 2, 2019
Why Dracula absolutely slaps
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October 26, 2019
How horror fiction is coping with climate change
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October 5, 2019
How to browse a used bookstore
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September 28, 2019
The BBC proclaims Catcher in the Rye no longer cool
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September 21, 2019
Scholars think they’ve found Milton’s annotated copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio
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September 14, 2019
Margaret Atwood says hackers tried to steal the manuscript for her Handmaid’s Tale sequel
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September 7, 2019
Amazon reviewers find Good Night Moon’s choice to rhyme moon with moon “unacceptable”
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August 31, 2019
Exploring the vast world of Seinfeld fanfiction
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August 24, 2019
Why Beatrix Potter self-published Peter Rabbit
The week’s best writing on books and related subjects.
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August 17, 2019
Meet the medieval Welsh poet who wrote odes to her vagina
Plus, libraries are becoming flashy tourist attractions, and all the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related content.
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August 10, 2019
Jane Austen was shockingly underpaid compared to other authors of her era
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August 3, 2019
The first guacamole recipe written in English came from a British pirate
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July 27, 2019
The Booker Prize longlist includes a book that is just a single thousand-page sentence
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July 20, 2019
Buzz Aldrin carried a tiny book with him to the moon
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July 13, 2019
You don’t really own your e-books
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July 6, 2019
What makes a book “unfilmable”?
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June 29, 2019
Romance novelists speak out on the harassment they face online
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June 22, 2019
Suzanne Collins has written a Hunger Games prequel set to come out in 2020
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June 15, 2019
Reading Amelia Bedelia as a parable on domestic labor
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