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Books

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

The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes might be the best Hunger Games movie yet

By Alex Abad-Santos November 17

All of this year’s National Book Award finalists, reviewed by Vox

By Vox Staff November 15

Professional raconteur Fran Lebowitz thinks art should be useless

By Constance Grady October 19

The big Elon Musk biography asks all the wrong questions

By Constance Grady September 13

How cars ruin wild animals’ lives

By Marina Bolotnikova September 12

The book of the year so far is Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds

By Constance Grady September 12

Zadie Smith on the problem of the good white woman

By Constance Grady September 5

Dealing With Dragons is the kind of book a kid builds their personality around

By Constance Grady September 1

How does Elon Musk get away with it all?

By Constance Grady August 17

Publishing scammers are using AI to scale their grifts

By Constance Grady August 12

A reading guide for grownups who don’t read

By Constance Grady August 6

Colson Whitehead on the heists, fire, and movie magic of his new novel Crook Manifesto

By Constance Grady July 18

2023’s best books (so far)

By Constance Grady July 1

How Frog and Toad became queer anti-capitalist cottagecore icons

By Cyrena Touros June 28

When you can’t separate art from artist

By Constance Grady June 22

In Lorrie Moore’s new book, a man and his dead ex-girlfriend go on a road trip

By Constance Grady June 20

What a new conservative call for “regime change” in America reveals about the culture war

By Zack Beauchamp June 15

The Vox guide to HBO’s “Succession”

The Shakespearean resonance at the heart of the Succession finale

By Constance Grady May 31

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

By Li Zhou May 24

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

By Constance Grady May 23

The Republican plan to take over school boards may be backfiring

By Nicole Narea May 17

The return of the porn wars

By Constance Grady May 16

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

By Constance Grady April 27

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

By Constance Grady April 10

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

By B.L. Blanchard March 24

How BookTok makes money

By Constance Grady March 21

Time doesn’t have to be money

By Constance Grady March 17

The biting, witty melancholy of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn

By Constance Grady March 7

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The surprising lesson from a century of Oscar scandals

By Alissa Wilkinson March 1

Ordinary Black lives should be remembered, too

By Gabrielle Ione Hickmon February 22

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

By Constance Grady February 10

The State of the Union address's history, explained

By Andrew Prokop February 6

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

By Alex Abad-Santos February 2

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

By Constance Grady January 31

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

By Ben Jacobs January 13

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

By Constance Grady January 11

Hulu’s Kindred solves the Handmaid’s Tale problem

By Constance Grady December 21, 2022

Vox’s 16 best books of 2022

By Constance Grady December 13, 2022

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

By Constance Grady December 8, 2022

How a Holocaust memoir became a self-help Instagram hit

By Mattie Kahn November 28, 2022