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“Greenwood’s stinging, salient novel remains relevant (the more things change, the more they stay the same), excoriating those who make a business of war whether it’s public or personal... A provocative, uncompromising powerhouse of a read.”

— Los Angeles Times, Sep 7 2025

Readers can expect comically rendered bad behavior, graphic bodily functions, and the devastating cruelties and tragedies of war. In Greenwood's keen and capable hands, the effortless prose makes the story all the more impactful.

— Shelf Awareness, Aug 29 2025

Greenwood, a former war correspondent, skewers the news industry in this novel
set in Gaza during a brief but intense 2012 conflict.

— The New York Times Book Review, Aug 28 2025

Phoebe Greenwood’s novel, “Vulture,” conjures up this world with mordant humor and breathtaking immediacy.

— The New York Times, Aug 25 2025

Manages to be entertaining and sobering in equal measure... It requires great skill switching from catastrophe to comedy or vice versa, and Greenwood handles it with aplomb, producing deft chiaroscuro effects, sometimes on the same page.

— Washington Examiner, Aug 14 2025

“The book succeeds as a story about a damaged industry: Greenwood is at her best when she’s skewering the media, which, even down on its luck as it is, must not be spared from parody.”

— Washington Post, Aug 14 2025

“Finally, it seems the forbidden words are being named–genocide, famine, statehood–and our leaders may act to do something about them. But our outrage has come much too late.”

— The Guardian, Aug 10 2025

“An astute and darkly humorous debut... a caustic study of what it means to report from a conflict, and particularly relevant to the current moment.”

— The Guardian, Aug 6 2025

“At times heartbreaking, the book uses dark humor, which is when Vulture really packs a punch. This book is enthralling through and through.”

— Debutiful, Aug 4 2025

“As witty as it is wicked, Phoebe Greenwood’s novel is a razor-sharp skewering of the war news industry that highlights both its absurdities and inhumanness in the face of unacceptable atrocities.”

— Chicago Review of Books, Aug 1 2025

“In 2015, almost two years after I left Palestine, I started work on my first novel. I had covered the region as a correspondent for four years but apparently there was a lot I hadn’t managed to say. When I sat down to write, Gaza poured out.”

— hyphen., Jul 8 2025

“Greenwood. gives a visceral account of being a war reporter... Vulture lays bare how the cynical modern war news industry fails the people whose tragedies fuel it... a dark satire with real claws.”

— The Independent, Jul 6 2025

“Though it’s set amid another Gaza conflict, Vulture is less about the war than it is about foreign opportunism and interference... A scathing satirical novel set in the troubled Middle East.”

— Foreword Reviews, Jul 1 2025

★ “Greenwood debuts with a scathing satire of war journalism centered on an ambitious London freelancer who recklessly throws herself into covering the 2012 Gaza War... This striking portrait of hubris will keep readers glued to the page.”

— Publishers Weekly, Jun 13 2025

“It’s hard to say that the book is hilarious given all the graphic death and destruction, but Vulture is a daring dark comedy that doesn’t shy away from the horrors that have been going on in the Palestinian territories for too long.”

— NPR, May 21 2025