Usha Vance is a closed book – but her Goodreads account is surprisingly revealing | Arwa Mahdawi

Arwa Mahdawi uses Usha Vance’s Goodreads activity to speculate, tongue in cheek, about what her reading might suggest about her husband’s political ambitions and his approach to Catholicism. The piece acknowledges that Usha is private and presents the interpretations as playful conjecture rather than evidence of her views.

Mahdawi links *Death Comes for the Archbishop*, about a priest seeking to impose order in New Mexico, to JD Vance’s public remarks on Catholicism. She also connects *I, Claudius*, a story of palace rivalry and an underestimated survivor who becomes emperor, to speculation that Vance could succeed Donald Trump; Usha has since begun reading *Medieval People*.