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  1. end of an era
    The Millions Will Live on, But the Indie Book Blog Is DeadSerious readers’ favorite source of outsider reviews, just acquired by Publishers Weekly, was essentially the last of its kind.
    By Kat Rosenfield
  2. oral history
    The True Origins of Monty Python’s Spamalot MusicalThe best stories from the updated Monty Python oral history, including how Mel Brooks helped give birth to Spamalot.
    By Brian Boone
  3. dystopia
    Welcome to Dystopian Realist FictionToday’s feminist dystopian novels show us worlds far nearer and scarier than Orwell’s nightmares.
    By Cody Delistraty
  4. most anticipated 2019
    37 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2019From old favorites (Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith) to new favorites (Sally Rooney, Marlon James), plus sequels to Olive Kitteridge and The Handmaid’s Tale.
    By Hillary Kelly, Maris Kreizman, and Lila Shapiro
  5. books
    10 Books Just Added to the Public Domain That Are Worth ReadingEdith Wharton, e.e. cummings, Agatha Christie, and more.
    By Hillary Kelly
  7. conspiracy theories
    Conspiracy Fiction Once Helped Us Tell the Truth. Now It’s a Weapon for Liars.An author of conspiracy thrillers remembers their heyday and wonders what’s next.
    By Alan Glynn
  8. comedy
    Comic Blythe Roberson on Her Book About Dating Men, Hating MenA single feminist teaches us How to Date Men When You Hate Men
    By Karen Chee
  9. vulture lists
    The Five Essential Jane Austen-Premised NovelsThe canon of books using Austen as a literary device instead of, you know, stealing her plots.
    By Terena Bell
  10. books
    Publishers Weekly Has Acquired the MillionsIt was one of the last independent book blogs.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  11. must reads
    8 New Books You Should Read This JanuaryChigozie Obioma, Kristen Roupenian, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  12. set visits
    Marie Kondo Returns, Just in Time for Your New Year’s ResolutionsOn the set of her new Netflix series, Tidying Up.
    By Phoebe Reilly
  13. 2018 in review
    2018: When Asian-American Art Became Its Own GenreIs Asian-American art simply Asian-American creators making work? Or is there something intrinsically Asian-American about the work?
    By E. Alex Jung
  14. obama’s best of 2018
    Take a Wild Guess What Barack Obama’s Favorite Book of 2018 WasPer usual, our cool president has good taste.
    By Dee Lockett
  15. best of 2018
    Hear Vulture Writers Discuss the Best Pop Culture of 2018 for Two Glorious HoursMatt Zoller Seitz, Jerry Saltz, Emily Yoshida, Dee Lockett, Sara Holdren, and Maris Kreizman shared favorites from the year in culture.
    By Vulture Editors
  16. choices
    Publishers Weekly Picks Trump Publishers as Persons of the YearInstead of picking the man himself, they opted to celebrate publishers cashing in on him.
    By Lila Shapiro
  17. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Book Covers of 2018, Described by Their DesignersThe artists behind the year’s most eye-catching covers talk about their sometimes torturous process.
    By Lila Shapiro
  18. whiskey in a teacup
    I Lived Like Reese Witherspoon for a Week and All I Got Was This HamA New York Jewess goes south for the holidays.
    By Rachel Handler
  19. year in culture 2018
    9 Books of Poems That Prove 2018 Was a Fantastic Year — at Least for Poetry.Including two rediscovered classics, a brilliant song of Trump-era outrage, and a transgender scholar’s reworking of Middle English.
    By Meghan O’Rourke and Meghan O'Rourke
  20. one grand books
    William Finnegan’s 10 Favorite BooksGeorge Orwell, Elena Ferrante, and more.
    By William Finnegan
  21. best of 2018
    The Best Audiobooks of 2018Deborah Eisenberg did her brilliant stories justice and the Beastie Boys invited over a famous cast of dozens.
    By Jenni Laidman
  22. best of 2018
    Fiction’s 10 Best Scenes of 2018Shocking confessions, acts of depravity, and a feminist meet-cute with a merman.
    By Hillary Kelly
  23. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018Sentient plants, a telepathic key, obsessive-compulsive zombies and other avatars of our broken world.
    By Jaime Green
  24. books
    Cool Girl Cazzie David Is Writing a BookIt’s an essay collection inspired by her famous family.
    By Dee Lockett
  25. one grand books
    Nathan Englander’s 10 Favorite BooksNikolai Gogol, Colson Whitehead, and more.
    By Nathan Englander
  26. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Comedy Books of 2018Featuring Chris Gethard, Nell Scovell, The Simpsons, The Kids in the Hall, and an intimate look at Robin Williams.
    By Brian Boone
  27. cher
    Get Ready for Even More Cher in 2020The time has come for a Cher autobiography and biopic.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  28. money
    Michelle Obama Memoir Continues to Steamroll Every Other Book Released This YearAnd more tour dates were added.
    By John Maher
  29. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Crime Books of 2018Opium smugglers, mad scientists, Instagram socialites, and serial killers fictional and real.
    By Maris Kreizman
  30. she’s done it again
    Reese Witherspoon Is Taking You to Where the Crawdads SingBased on author Delia Owens’s novel of the same name.
    By Halle Kiefer
  31. on the books
    Did Michelle Obama Really Sell 2 Million Books in 15 Days? An Investigation.The former First Lady’s book is already this year’s biggest seller. But how do we know the exact numbers?
    By John Maher
  32. old new yawk
    Notes on the Grungy Years: Two Novelists Talk About 1970s New YorkTom Barbash and John Freeman Gill on the Upper West Side of their novels, a land of muggers and John Lennon.
    By John Freeman Gill
  33. year in culture 2018
    In Fiction, It Was the Year of the WomanAmid Trump-obsessed nonfiction blockbusters, women led the way forward for fiction that matters.
    By Hillary Kelly
  34. one grand books
    Deepak Chopra’s 10 Favorite BooksSalman Rushdie, Erwin Schrödinger, and more.
    By Deepak Chopra
  35. year in culture 2018
    Book Publishing’s No Good, Very Good Year of TrumpIn 2018, publishers cried about the president all the way to the bank.
    By Lila Shapiro
  36. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Books of 2018Reinvented auto-fiction from Heti and Cusk, gripping essays, wild tales of Russia and opioids, and final stories from the late master Denis Johnson.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  37. booker book review
    Anna Burns’s Booker Prize–Winning Milkman Offers Some Hope But No ChangeA surprise winner of the U.K. prize, Milkman is about Northern Ireland, #MeToo — and really any time or place — for better and worse.
    By Maddie Crum
  38. must reads
    6 New Books You Should Read This DecemberA Rock Hudson biography, this year’s Booker Prize winner, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  39. plagiarism
    Poetry Twitter Erupts Over a Plagiarist in Their MidstAiley O’Toole was a young poet on the rise, until colleagues found she’d stolen their verse.
    By Kat Rosenfield
  40. sequels
    André Aciman Wants a Call Me by Your Name Sequel Too, So He’s Started Writing ItThis one will probably have a happy ending, right? Right!?
    By Halle Kiefer
  41. the literati
    The 9 Worst Phrases From the Bad Sex Awards 2018 Short List“Slowly chugging my organ as a boa constrictor swallows its prey.â€
    By Gabriella Paiella
  42. one grand books
    Lena Dunham’s 10 Favorite BooksNora Ephron, William S. Burroughs, and more.
    By Lena Dunham
  43. big deals
    Margaret Atwood Releasing The Handmaid’s Tale SequelYes, it’s fiction.
    By Devon Ivie
  44. art
    The Best New Architecture Books To Gift For the HolidaysFrom McKim, Mead & White to Mark Foster Gage.
    By Andrés González
  45. art
    New Art Books to Gift For the Holidays, from Kusama to Bruegel to Vivian MaierNow you just have to go buy a bigger coffee table.
    By Andrés González
  46. one grand books
    James Whiteside’s 10 Favorite BooksPatti Smith, Lewis Carroll, and Stephen Hawking.
    By James Whiteside
  47. books
    How to Write a Female Serial KillerOyinkan Braithwaite on writing a protagonist who kills men, just because she feels like it.
    By Oyinkan Braithwaite as told to Lila Shapiro
  48. vulture lists
    7 New Audiobooks Tailor-made to Help You Survive the HolidaysFeed your brain with Twain, Jack Reacher, and the Beastie Boys while your body endures the tedium of cooking and travel.
    By Jenni Laidman
  49. the female gaze
    FilmStruck’s Alicia Malone Mourns the Service and Celebrates The Female GazeThe voice of the defunct streamer has a new anthology of essays by women on women-made films.
    By Joanna Scutts
  50. vulture insiders book club
    Breakout Author Jamel Brinkley on Men, Gentrification, and ‘Safari Literature’His debut collection, Lucky Man, was a fiction finalist for last week’s National Book Awards.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  51. ferrante fever
    Seven Great Books on Female Friendship Elena Ferrante Didn’t WriteBonds made and broken in great novels by Zadie Smith, Claire Messud, Toni Morrison, and others.
    By Hillary Kelly
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