Daily coverage of Books and Authors by Vulture

Books

  1. reconsideration
    Orlando Is the Virginia Woolf Novel We Need Right NowOn its 90th anniversary, a recognition of how Woolf’s parodic, fantastical faux-biography made it possible to imagine a world beyond gender.
    By Joanna Scutts
  2. book excerpt
    How Phoebe Robinson Hustled Her Way Out of $65,000 in DebtShe calls it the “seven‑year‑debt saga.â€
    By Phoebe Robinson
  3. one grand books
    Kathy Bates’s 10 Favorite BooksHarper Lee, Tennessee Williams, and more.
    By Kathy Bates
  4. national book awards
    Here Are Your 2018 National Book Awards FinalistsPoet Terrance Hayes gets a second nod.
    By Zoe Haylock
  5. lit parade
    Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk Breaks Through the Trump Book NoiseIn a stormy season of Trump exposés, Lewis’s explainer of government (dys)function earns the highest praise.
    By Hillary Kelly
  7. book excerpt
    Eric Idle on the Enduring, Powerful Legacy of the Song He Wrote As a JokeHow Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life†took on a life of its own.
    By Eric Idle
  8. vulture lists
    Your Definitive Guide to All of Haruki Murakami’s BooksThe great, the good, the not so good, and those we’ll just pretend never happened.
    By Hillary Kelly
  9. new york comic con 2018
    The Good Omens TV Show Was Terry Pratchett’s Last RequestNeil Gaiman says he did this one for his friend.
    By Maya Phillips
  10. new yorker festival
    Maggie Gyllenhaal Details Her Adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost DaughterShe doesn’t plan to act in the film.
    By Trupti Rami
  11. new york comic con 2018
    The Best Philip K. Dick Adaptations, According to His Daughter Isa Dick HackettIncluding Blade Runner, of course.
    By Vulture Editors
  12. must reads
    13 Great Horror Books Written by WomenNovels, short stories, and chills.
    By Mallory O'Meara
  13. adaptations
    James Baldwin Kept a List of His Dream Cast for a Beale Street MovieWith potential directors, too.
    By Hunter Harris
  14. habitats
    How Novelist John Wray Made His Brooklyn Brownstone Into a Writers’ ClubhouseThis Park Slope townhouse is a cross between an artists’ colony, a co-working space, and a frat house.
    By Ruth Franklin
  15. one grand books
    Deborah Eisenberg’s 10 Favorite BooksJane Bowles, Isaac Babel, and more.
    By Deborah Eisenberg
  16. legends
    Dracul Sets Out to Prove That Count Dracula Really LivedThe new book attempts to reconstruct the missing hundred pages of the original manuscript.
    By Lila Shapiro
  17. must reads
    8 New Books You Should Read This OctoberGothic novels, big-deal biographies, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  18. how mysterious!
    Mystery Writer Tana French’s Tips for Crafting a Red HerringHow the author of In the Woods and The Witch Elm leads the reader down the wrong trail.
    By Tana French
    As told to Lila Shapiro
  19. memoirs
    Monty Python Almost Never Aired and Other Stories From Eric Idle’s MemoirThis is filled with great stories.
    By Brian Boone
  20. q&a
    ‘Phenomenal Levels of Denial and Arrogance’: Heidi Waleson on City Opera’s End“It was loony.â€
    By Justin Davidson
  21. book excerpt
    How Hiring a Superstar Wrecked New York City OperaThe board thought Gerard Mortier would save the company. Instead, its promises to him doomed it.
    By Heidi Waleson
  22. book review
    War, Drugs, and Other Extremes in the Post-Post-9/11 NovelTwo recent novels, Ohio and Waiting for Eden, try to keep pace with our state of permanent crisis.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  23. last night on late night
    Stephen Colbert Made a Children’s Book Out of Trump’s Post-Hurricane CommentsAll proceeds will go to organizations that help hurricane victims in the Carolinas.
    By Halle Kiefer
  24. reconsideration
    We Regret to Inform You That Little Women Is Not a Feminist NovelOn the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, critics are lining up to praise its pioneering feminism. They’re wrong.
    By Hillary Kelly
  25. podcasts
    My Favorite Murder Hosts Share Sneak Peek of Upcoming MemoirRead the first excerpt from Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark’s Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered.
    By Hillary Nelson and Devon Sherer
  26. one grand books
    Rose Byrne’s 10 Favorite BooksAnaïs Nin, Judy Blume, and more.
    By Rose Byrne
  27. lit parade
    Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Struggle Is Over, But the Critical Debate Lives OnThe question undergirding nearly every review of the now-complete series is whether he regrets that his quest for truth upended his entire family.
    By Hillary Kelly
  28. book excerpt
    The Object Joss Whedon Will Never Let GoAs seen in an excerpt from the new book What We Keep.
    By Bill Shapiro
  29. backstories
    The Stories Behind Haruki Murakami’s Most Iconic Book CoversA sense of “inimitable, cozy alienation†hangs over each of Kidd’s book covers — a description that also applies to Murakami’s best novels.
    By Lila Shapiro
  30. books
    The Big-Money, Big-Deal Books of the FallAll the season’s probable (or wannabe) best sellers, from Michelle Obama, Michael Lewis, Sally Field, David Blight, and (sorry) Tucker Carlson.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  31. closings
    Café Loup, and Yet More Downtown History, Might Be Gone for Good“It was a refuge from all the assholes who made every other place in New York unbearable.â€
    By Steve Garbarino
  32. vulture recommends
    The Art Books Jerry Saltz Is Loving This FallBeautiful volumes about often under-celebrated artists, from groundbreaking Delacroix to Hilma af Klint, pioneer of Abstraction.
    By Jerry Saltz
  33. one grand books
    Uzo Aduba’s 10 Favorite BooksDr. Seuss, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more.
    By Uzo Aduba
  34. audiobooks
    The Best-Ever Recordings From the Prehistory of AudiobooksThe Voices of the Dead Brought to Life Digitally, from Kesey to Nabokov to Tolstoy and Maybe Walt Whitman
    By Katherine Barner
  35. audiobooks
    The Best-selling Audiobooks of 2018 (So Far)Here’s what everyone’s listening to right now.
    By Jenni Laidman
  36. audiobooks
    Kristen Bell Reading Fear, and 9 More Dream Audiobook PairingsJust imagine Gossip Girl reading about Trump’s White House.
    By Hunter Harris
  37. vulture recommends
    The Best Audiobooks of 2018 (So Far)Courtroom thrillers, quirky imports, and Billy Crudup.
    By Jenni Laidman
  38. previews
    The Grub Street Fall Cookbook PreviewThe recipes we can’t wait to make from this year’s most exciting new cookbooks.
    By Nikita Richardson
  39. reconsideration
    25 Years Ago The Virgin Suicides Kicked Off Our Obsession With Teenage Tragedy.Jeffrey Eugenides’s haunting, faux-nostalgic 1993 novel changed the way we consume adolescence in pop culture.
    By Hillary Kelly
  40. sexcerpt
    The Best Sex I’ve Ever Read: Mrs. CalibanIn which a woman meets a hot amphibian.
    By Laura van den Berg
    As told to Hillary Kelly
  41. encounters
    Inside the All Souls Convention With 400 Witches, Daemons, and Vampires“I’ve never experienced anything like it in my life.â€
    By Lila Shapiro
  42. vulture recommends
    10 Fall Novelists Share Their Most Anticipated Fall BooksFrom Gary Shteyngart to Tana French.
    By Vulture Editors
  43. lit parade
    The Books Most Everyone Will Be Arguing About This FallIn a special, forward-looking seasonal edition of Lit Parade.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  44. brooklyn book festival 2018
    The Brooklyn Book Festival’s Tote-Bag Power RankingsA status update on which tote was the GOAT (and which were not worth our time) at the 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival.
    By Evan Allgood
  45. brooklyn book festival 2018
    The 6 Most Memorable Moments From the Brooklyn Book FestivalFrom James Baldwin’s gender politics to the mass extinction of book reviews.
    By Evan Allgood and Boris Kachka
  46. class is in session
    Welcome to Vulture’s First Spoiler Book Club: Severance by Ling Ma“This whole book was my favorite ‘Why I Left New York’ essay of all time.â€
    By BORIS KACHKA
  47. books
    A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Literary CanonWherein a panel of learned critics tells us what belongs on a list of the 100 most important books of the 2000s … so far.
    By Vulture Editors
  48. close reads
    Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai Is the Best Book of the Century (for Now)The Last Samurai is a masterpiece. It’s an accident of recent history that it’s taken the culture some time to realize it.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  49. vulture lists
    19 Book-to-Film Adaptations Still to Come in 2018Alert the Oscars.
    By Devon Ivie
  50. one grand books
    Nicole Holofcener’s 10 Favorite BooksPatricia Highsmith, Henry Miller, and more.
    By Nicole Holofcener
  51. vulture lists
    Every Stephen King Reference and Easter Egg in Castle RockThe Hulu show is packed with nods to The Shawshank Redemption, Cujo, The Shining, and other King classics.
    By Brian Tallerico
More Articles