Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. The Vox Book Club is linking to ...

Raven Leilani's novel centers on a young woman with a free-range libido who dreams of being a painter. Luster is a crackling debut about sex, art and the inescapable workings of race. This is FRESH ...

Amid all the fanfare surrounding the release of Luster, Raven Leilani’s debut novel, the Brooklyn-based author is wondering if perhaps it’s all the result of one long fever dream. “I once heard about ...

I have spent the past five years reading the descriptions of hundreds of books, trying to find things that are interesting and worthwhile for me to pitch as a freelancer. They are almost always bad.

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Raven Leilani's debut novel Luster is poised to be a book of the summer — but it's just the latest in a swell of titles exploring women's lives behind closed doors. Here, four more tomes that capture ...

You might know of the hemline theory — the idea that skirt lengths fluctuate with the stock market, rising in boom times and growing longer in recessions. Perhaps publishing has a parallel; call it ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “Midnight Sun,” by Stephenie Meyer (Hachette, fiction, on sale ...