Solid State Books, an independent bookstore in the H Street Corridor in Washington, DC, in February 2019. | Calla Kessler for The Washington Post via Getty Images Every generation has a small group of young fiction writers who make it: They top bestseller lists, win prizes, and become household names. And for decades — well,…
A 1959 illustration by Frank Tinsley of a futuristic spaceship powered by a large solar wind sail. One of the most momentous developments of the new Trump era is how major billionaires in the tech industry — frequently known as the broligarchs — have thrown their weight behind the president. During the 2024 election, they offered…
What if something terrible happened to you, and you weren’t able to remember it? That’s one of the questions at the center of Amy Griffin’s memoir, The Tell, which is quickly becoming one of the year’s most talked-about books. Griffin’s buzzy bestseller doesn’t offer easy answers or tidy conclusions about its dark subject matter —…
A construction laborer works on a bridge in Los Angeles. | Gary Leonard/Getty Images When a Democrat contemplates their nation’s biggest problems today, minimum lot sizes in suburban housing codes probably don’t rank very high on the list. After all, the US president is a reality star turned insurrectionist, who’s ordering investigations of his political…
It’s been 12 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her last novel, Americanah, to overwhelming acclaim. In the time since, she’s delivered a viral TED talk on feminism, been sampled by Beyoncé, been denounced by students for anti-trans speech, and denounced those students in turn for cancel culture. Now, at last, Adichie has finally released…
A new memoir by a former Facebook employee promoted Meta to take legal action this month. | Kenny Holston/Pool/AFP via Getty Images In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg made a bold statement. Rather than to help college kids get dates, he claimed, Facebook was invented as a platform for “free expression.” Six…
Good night, Owl. | Arnold Lobel/Courtesy of HarperCollins This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I’m working on a longer piece, so I wanted to bring you something a little lighter for this week’s newsletter. I’ve been reading Arnold Lobel’s Owl at Home with my…
Next Page is a newsletter written by senior correspondent and book critic Constance Grady. She covers books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. To get new editions in your inbox, subscribe here. Any time I travel to a new place for which there is no Rick Steves guidebook, I feel a little cheated. Steves, with…
Houses in New Albany, Ohio, in 2019. | Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg via Getty Images Americans don’t move much anymore and Yoni Appelbaum thinks that’s a serious problem. Appelbaum, a historian and deputy executive editor at The Atlantic, is the author of a new book exploring how and why Americans have become less likely to settle in…
For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from other writers that appear on the back of a book’s cover, which hardly anyone likes to write and even fewer people like to ask for. One big author and one major publisher announced within…
