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Looking for book recommendations? What to read, what not to read, and the latest news in the world of books.

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The Shakespearean resonance at the heart of the Succession finale

By Constance Grady

The latest book ban target: Amanda Gorman’s poem from the Biden inauguration

By Li Zhou

In Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans, art students scramble for money and sex

By Constance Grady

The Republican plan to take over school boards may be backfiring

By Nicole Narea

The return of the porn wars

By Constance Grady

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is about far more than periods

By Constance Grady

Kelly Link secures her crown as queen of the literary fairy tale

By Constance Grady

Native American histories show rebuilding is possible — and necessary — after catastrophe

By B.L. Blanchard

How BookTok makes money

By Constance Grady

Time doesn’t have to be money

By Constance Grady

The biting, witty melancholy of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn

By Constance Grady

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The surprising lesson from a century of Oscar scandals

By Alissa Wilkinson

Ordinary Black lives should be remembered, too 

By Gabrielle Ione Hickmon

What the hard-won HarperCollins union contract means for the future of books

By Constance Grady

The State of the Union address's history, explained

By Andrew Prokop

How Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin rewrote the book’s ending for a big twist

By Alex Abad-Santos

Vintage Contemporaries is a warm-hearted novel that walks in the footsteps of Laurie Colwin

By Constance Grady

Biden worries the Secret Service may be loyal to Trump, according to a new book

By Ben Jacobs

Prince Harry’s Spare is a sad and self-indicting portrait of royalty on the brink

By Constance Grady

Hulu’s Kindred solves the Handmaid’s Tale problem

By Constance Grady

Vox’s 16 best books of 2022

By Constance Grady

Why is Hulu’s Fleishman Is in Trouble so boring?

By Constance Grady

How a Holocaust memoir became a self-help Instagram hit

By Mattie Kahn

All of the 2022 National Book Award finalists, read and reviewed

By Vox Staff

The planned Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger has been struck down in court

By Constance Grady

How tech is helping us talk to animals

By Neel Dhanesha

Cormac McCarthy’s two new novels are deliberately frustrating

By Constance Grady

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The novelist Kim Stanley Robinson’s vision roves from the deep past to the distant future

By Bryan Walsh

Celeste Ng is back with a dark parable of America’s history of child removal

By Constance Grady

Who built Marilyn Monroe?

By Constance Grady

Pop culture loves gender war stories. They leave something out.

By Emily St. James

In Ducks, Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant goes bleak and desolate

By Constance Grady

How power companies have caused and worsened wildfires

By Rebecca Leber

Nona the Ninth features dogs, lesbians, necromantic battles, increasing levels of Catholicism

By Constance Grady

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The radical political power of friendship

It can help us push back against tyranny. Philosopher Hannah Arendt’s legendary cocktail parties were proof.

By Alissa Wilkinson

The ovarian “biological clock” and other reproductive health metaphors that have led science astray

By Byrd Pinkerton

With I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy lays bare the horrors of child acting

By Constance Grady

Salman Rushdie and the enduring risk of political art

By Jonathan Guyer

One Good Thing: A food memoir about love, grief, and lockdown

By Constance Grady

The power of silence in a deafening world

Why there’s more noise, and more kinds of it — and why it might be ruining our focus.

By Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz