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In The Immortal King Rao, a tech billionaire becomes king of the world

A new novel paints a portrait of a world ruled by almighty algorithm.

By Constance Grady

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Spend June with a novel of colonialism, technological capitalism, and coconuts

By Constance Grady

The Fortress of Solitude is a fraught and uneasy love letter to a vanished Brooklyn

By Constance Grady

The Vox Book Club is going back to Fortress of Solitude, one of the best novels of the 2000s

By Constance Grady

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado knows where the bodies are buried

By Constance Grady

The author of When We Cease to Understand the World explains himself

By Constance Grady

Spend April with Carmen Maria Machado’s haunting Her Body and Other Parties

By Constance Grady

Have we ceased to understand the world?

By Constance Grady

When We Cease to Understand the World asks what it means to be human

By Constance Grady

In The Sentence, Louise Erdrich asks what we owe the dead

By Constance Grady

Spend February reading Louise Erdrich’s pandemic novel of grief and ghosts

By Constance Grady

Close reading the fleshy, obsessive internet of No One Is Talking About This

By Constance Grady

In Fake Accounts, we lie and lie and lie all over the internet 

By Constance Grady

Spend the winter reading novels of our online brains

By Constance Grady

The smart political argument behind the satire Such a Fun Age

By Constance Grady

Spend November reading Such a Fun Age, a witty and biting social satire

By Constance Grady

In Lauren Groff’s Matrix, medieval nuns build a feminist utopia

By Constance Grady

The Vox Book Club is spending October reading and talking to Lauren Groff

By Constance Grady

The meditative empathy of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi

By Constance Grady

RSVP now for our live Q&A with Susanna Clarke

By Constance Grady

This September, the Vox Book Club returns with Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi

By Constance Grady

Leave the World Behind’s bougie apocalypse

By Constance Grady

Gold Diggers author Sanjena Sathian on why she reads Philip Roth as a minority writer

By Constance Grady

Spend June with the delicious vacation read Leave the World Behind

By Constance Grady

How Gold Diggers finds the horror in petty high school betrayal

By Constance Grady

RSVP now to talk Gold Diggers with Sanjena Sathian and the Vox Book Club

By Constance Grady

Novelist Akwaeke Emezi talks writing a nonbinary novel

By Constance Grady

The Vox Book Club May pick features heists, alchemy, and the Indian American diaspora

By Constance Grady

How The Death of Vivek Oji inverts the murder mystery

By Constance Grady

The Power author Naomi Alderman talks patriarchy and revenge with the Vox Book Club

By Constance Grady

This April, the Vox Book Club is reading The Death of Vivek Oji

By Constance Grady

How Naomi Alderman’s novel The Power deconstructs the patriarchy

By Constance Grady

Raven Leilani, author of Luster, on how to be alone in New York City

By Constance Grady

This March, the Vox Book Club is going deep on gender, power, and corruption with The Power

By Constance Grady

Join Raven Leilani to discuss her debut novel Luster live on Zoom

By Constance Grady

Debut novel Luster is a biting psychosexual family satire

By Constance Grady

How Gideon the Ninth author Tamsyn Muir queers the space opera

By Constance Grady

Raven Leilani’s wickedly smart Luster is the Vox Book Club’s February pick

By Constance Grady

The profound grief and terrible puns of Harrow the Ninth

By Constance Grady and Emily St. James

RSVP now to talk Gideon the Ninth with Tamsyn Muir and the Vox Book Club

By Constance Grady

The remixed genre tropes of Gideon the Ninth, explained

By Constance Grady