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  1. adaptations
    Amy Poehler to Direct Moxie Riot Grrrl Netflix FilmJennifer Mathieu’s 2017 novel is getting the big-screen Poehler treatment.
    By Megh Wright
  2. books
    Teddy Wayne on Why He’s ‘Unsettled’ About Adapting Loner Into an HBO Series“I can see why my wife didn’t want her relatives to read it.â€
    By Maris Kreizman
  3. cancellations
    Syfy’s Nightflyers Has Been CancelledThe George R.R. Martin drama just never quite took off.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  4. one grand books
    Author Sjón’s 10 Favorite BooksIsak Dinesen, Mikhail Bulgakov, and more.
    By Sjón
  5. great adaptations
    10 Book-to-TV Adaptations Coming in 2019All it took for George Clooney to return to his small-screen roots was … good satire.
    By Devon Ivie
  7. trailer mix
    The Next Fifty Shades Started as Harry Styles FanficWhat if Harry Styles went to college in America and loved kissing and hated wearing a shirt?
    By Bethy Squires
  8. must reads
    5 Great Romance Novels for People Who’ve Never Read OneAn introduction to the venerable genre.
    By Jaime Green
  9. trust us
    Why You Should Be Reading Romance NovelsThey’re not what you think.
    By Jaime Green
  10. sounds like a cd
    Scam Season Comes for the OrchestraA debut memoir alleges that a well-known composer faked his way through live performances (without naming him but it’s obvious).
    By Katie Rothstein
  11. close reads
    The Wild Bunch Is Still the Best Western Ever MadeW.K. Stratton’s definitive new book details the movie’s death, destruction, and unexpected core of tenderness.
    By Chris Vognar
  12. publishing trends
    Move Over, Lady Psychopaths: The Locked-Room Mystery Is BackIn crazy times, mystery readers are craving a little order in their thrillers.
    By Allison Duncan
  13. talking books
    Valeria Luiselli Discusses Migrant Children and Lost SoulsLost Children Archive, her first novel in English, dismantles America’s “great theater of belonging.â€
    By Luisa Rollenhagen
  14. single ladies
    A Japanese Chronicler of ‘Women on Their Own,’ RediscoveredYuko Tsushima’s brilliant Territory of Light is the late, prolific author’s fourth novel published in English.
    By Sheila McClear
  15. bookstore news
    McNally Jackson Is Staying Put — and Massively ExpandingThe Soho store isn’t relocating, but new branches are set to anchor big developments at City Point and South Street Seaport.
    By Nick Tabor
  16. quel scandale
    The Book Publishing Scandals of Early February: Holy HellJill Abramson, Dan “tumor†Mallory, Bezos’s “picks,†YA troubles — and it’s only the 8th.
    By Hillary Kelly
  17. scammers gonna scam
    Best-Selling Scammer Dan Mallory to Continue ScammingThe Woman in the Window author will publish a second book.
    By Katie Rothstein
  18. style talk
    Grammar Guru Benjamin Dreyer Talks Twitter Style, Denounces ‘Onboarding’The author of Dreyer’s English is the E.B. White of our confusing era.
    By Maris Kreizman
  19. alternative fictions
    Everything Wrong With Trump’s America Was in Steven Seagal’s Only NovelThe Way of the Shadow Wolves has the deep state, Sheriff Joe, and Korans in the Arizona desert.
    By Kathryn Doyle
  20. books
    Jill Abramson Accused of Plagiarism in Merchants of TruthThe evidence has been described as “overwhelming.â€
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  21. adaptations
    Michael B. Jordan Is Adapting the New Novel Black Leopard, Red WolfThe book was just released this week.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  22. never give up
    Conan O’Brien Has Finally Landed His Dream InterviewAfter many years, Robert Caro has finally relented!
    By Megh Wright
  23. one grand books
    Tracey Thorn’s 10 Favorite BooksBillie Holiday, Virginia Woolf, and more.
    By Tracey Thorn
  24. must reads
    7 New Books You Should Read This FebruaryMarlon James, Toni Morrison, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  25. memoirs
    How It Feels to Publish Your Wife’s Memoir About Dying“Who was I to sit there and kill her dream?†asks the widower of Julie Yip-Williams, author of The Unwinding of the Miracle.
    By Hillary Kelly
  26. literary lunch
    A Conversation With Marlon James and Victor LaValleThe versatile authors talk race, fantasy, and James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf over dumplings.
    By Lila Shapiro
  27. dan mallory
    The Woman in The Window Author Dan Mallory Is Not Who He Claims to BeThe noted author of The Woman in the Window, a.k.a. A.J. Finn, deceived the public and his closest colleagues for years, a new investigation reveals.
    By Katie Rothstein
  28. j.d. salinger
    More Salinger Is Coming, Possibly Before 2030!J.D.’s son is on a mission to publish the rest of his work.
    By Katie Rothstein
  29. metoo authors
    Long Before He Sued, Thirteen Reasons Why Author Jay Asher Made a Quiet DealThe origin of the YA novelist’s defamation suit was the kind of hush-hush agreement we no longer tolerate.
    By Lila Shapiro
  30. twitter justice
    The Latest YA Twitter Pile On Forces a Rising Star to Self-CancelAmélie Wen Zhao won a huge book deal, but succumbed to a campaign alleging Blood Heir’s insensitivity months before its publication.
    By Kat Rosenfield
  31. lit design
    Welcome to the Bold and Blocky Instagram Era of Book CoversBook jackets built for Amazon thumbnails, Instagram clicks, and indie-bookstore Easter-egg hunts.
    By Margot Boyer-Dry
  32. one grand books
    Tony McNamara’s 10 Favorite BooksFyodor Dostoevsky, Miranda July, and more.
    By Tony McNamara
  33. memoirs
    I Tried to Be Virginia Woolf. A Brilliant New Memoir Comes Closer.Katharine Smyth’s All the Lives We Ever Lived is both a literary tribute and a powerful debut of its own.
    By Hillary Kelly
  34. the industry
    Megan Abbott’s Cheerleading Mystery Dare Me Back-Handsprings Over to USA NetworkThe drama landed a series order, to be co-produced by Netflix.
    By Halle Kiefer
  35. one grand books
    Terrence McNally’s 10 Favorite BooksWilliam Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and more.
    By Terrence McNally
  36. dark horses
    Paul Harding on His Decade of Trying Not to Think About His Pulitzer UpsetReflecting on ten years of defiant productivity following his sleeper hit debut, Tinkers.
    By Michele Filgate
  37. lost and found
    Sylvia Plath’s ‘New’ Story Shows Us the Career That Might Have BeenMary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom, released this week, was hiding in plain sight — evidence of a writer at odds with her legend.
    By Lauren LeBlanc
  38. the crime scene
    Crime-Solving Cats and Cozy Mysteries: A Publishing JuggernautMeow If It’s Murder is just the tip of a very large, very furry iceberg.
    By Hillary Kelly
  39. books
    Exploring Middle-earth With Tolkien’s Original MapIt demonstrates the astonishing care with which he imagined his fantastical creations and their intricate world.
    By Vulture Editors
  40. the crime scene
    If I Hate Violence So Much, Why Do I Love Writing About It?Writers of violent thrillers reflect on — and reaffirm — the ethics of what they do.
    By Adam Sternbergh
  41. the crime scene
    I Write Fiction About Border Crime, But Unlike Trump I Tell the Truth.The author of the Cartel trilogy reflects on depicting brutal border violence while Trump exploits it politically.
    By Don Winslow
  42. in memoriam
    How Mary Oliver’s Biographer Finally Met the Legendary PoetOliver, who died yesterday, connected with people “on the page,†and Lindsay Whalen was no exception.
    By Lindsay Whalen
  43. memoirs
    The Best Show’s Tom Scharpling Is Writing a MemoirTitled It Never Ends.
    By Megh Wright
  44. must reads
    6 New Paperbacks You Should Read This JanuaryLeila Slimani, Denis Johnson, and more.
    By Maris Kreizman
  45. class is in session
    ‘We Are Living in Evil’: Discussing Friday Black’s Horrific TruthsThe Vulture Spoiler Book Club on the shocking, hilarious, deeply moral stories of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
    By Boris Kachka, Mitchell Jackson, and Morgan Jerkins
  46. sparking joy
    Marie Kondo Isn’t Trying to Make Everyone Burn Their BooksCalm down, Twitter.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  47. bad girl lit
    The Villainous Bitch Has Become the Most Boring Trend in LiteratureWe wanted unlikable narrators; we got an army of psychopathic she-beasts too shallow to hate.
    By Hillary Kelly
  48. resolutions
    Help Me! Author Marianne Power Read All the Self-help Books So You Don’t Have ToA single Londoner learned how to take the self out of self-help.
    By Joanna Scutts
  49. poetry
    New Year, New Verse: 4 Poetry Collections That Change the WorldPoems about addiction, war, tokenism, regret, forgiveness, and Republicans.
    By Jonathan Russell Clark
  50. q&a
    The Author of ‘Cat Person’ Wants Her New Book to Make You UncomfortableKristen Roupenian’s new short-story collection, You Know You Want This, builds on the themes of sex and power that made “Cat Person†a phenomenon.
    By Anna Silman
  51. one grand books
    Richard E. Grant’s 10 Favorite BooksLewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, and more.
    By Richard E. Grant
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