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  1. profiles
    Ottessa Moshfegh Plays to WinThe workaholic reinventing slacker fiction.
    By Kaitlin Phillips
  2. netflix
    Midnight’s Children to Be Adapted for NetflixThe award-winning Salman Rushdie novel will be made into a series.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  3. books
    Soon You Can Buy Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tweets, But As a Book“Gmorning!â€
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. amazon prime day
    Prime Day: 12 Great Audiobooks You Should Listen to Right NowListen to something good.
    By Vulture Editors
  5. one grand books
    Ottessa Moshfegh’s 10 Favorite BooksBill Clegg, Jean Stein, Mark Baumer, and more.
    By Ottessa Moshfegh
  7. the industry
    Anya Taylor-Joy Cast in Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat MovieYour 12-year-old self has been waiting.
    By Halle Kiefer
  8. books
    Safe! Judge Dismisses Art of Fielding Copyright Lawsuit*Umpire voice*
    By Hunter Harris
  9. in conversation
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on What It Means to Be a ‘Feminist Icon’“I want to tell the truth. That’s where my storytelling comes from. My feminism comes from somewhere else: acute dissatisfaction.â€
    By David Marchese
  10. profile
    Amber Tamblyn Is Advocating for Women, and HerselfShe’s lactating on late-night TV, teaching feminism to David Cross and Quentin Tarantino, and attacking rape culture in her debut novel.
    By Lisa Miller
  11. books
    Sharp Objects Is the Ultimate Gillian Flynn NovelYears before the HBO show, Flynn’s debut thriller was ugly, gritty, weird, and creepy in the best possible way.
    By Hillary Kelly
  12. vulture lists
    7 New Books You Should Read This JulyMegan Abbott, Keith Gessen, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  13. lawsuits
    Judge Dismisses Plagiarism Lawsuit Against The Girls Author Emma Cline“As deeply painful as it has been to bring this dispute into the light, I’m glad I did not capitulate,†Cline told The Cut.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  14. Sharon Horgan’s 10 Favorite BooksCarrie Fisher, James Joyce, Ariel Levy, and more.
    By Sharon Horgan
  15. obits
    The Many Legacies of Harlan EllisonThe sheer size of his bibliography makes discussion of the influence of Ellison tricky.
    By Tobias Carroll
  16. rip
    Writer Harlan Ellison Dead at 84His wife, Susan, confirmed the news.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  17. in conversation
    David Lynch on His Memoir Room to Dream and Clues to His Films“People are detectives and we have life to find clues about in the same way we would with a piece of cinema.â€
    By David Marchese
  18. books
    Megan Abbott Is Back, With a Further Exploration of Female RageIn Give Me Your Hand, the thriller writer probes the psychological underpinnings of women who kill.
    By Ruth Franklin
  19. trailer mix
    First The Hate U Give Trailer Drops During Sunday’s BET AwardsBased on author Angie Thomas’s best-selling YA novel inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.
    By Halle Kiefer
  20. koko
    11 Great Books About ApesWe’ll miss you, Koko.
    By Zoe Haylock
  21. Rachel Kushner’s 10 Favorite BooksFyodor Dostoevsky, Marguerite Duras, and more.
    By Rachel Kushner
  22. pride month
    The 38 Best Queer YA NovelsRomance, sci-fi, mysteries, and more.
    By Danika Leigh Ellis
  23. junot diaz
    Junot Díaz Cleared in MIT Sexual-Misconduct InquiryHe’ll return to teach classes there this fall.
    By Hunter Harris
  24. book review
    Lydia Millet Is Not Nearly As Famous As She Should Be.The novelist is ferociously untame, paying little heed to the boundaries of realism and even less to those of class.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  25. one grand books
    Emily Wilson’s 10 Favorite BooksMargaret Atwood, John Milton, William Shakespeare, and more.
    By Emily Wilson
  26. Her Body and Other Parties Is in Development As a Black Mirror-esque SeriesGina Welch of The Terror is attached to write.
    By Lila Shapiro
  27. profile
    Misogyny Is Boring As HellCarmen Maria Machado writes fantastical tales about the banal horrors of sexism. Lately, it’s her story about Junot Díaz that’s getting attention.
    By Lila Shapiro
  28. The Best Titles From Anthony Bourdain’s Book ImprintAnthony Bourdain’s publisher and collaborator selects the best books from Bourdain’s imprint.
    By Hunter Harris
  29. tributes
    Anthony Bourdain’s Editor Says He Was Working on a ‘More Personal’ New Book“I’ve never heard one person say anything negative about Tony Bourdain.â€
    By BORIS KACHKA
  30. stranger things
    A Stranger Things Prequel Novel Is on the WayThere will also be a behind-the-scenes companion reader.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  31. one grand books
    Curtis Sittenfeld’s 10 Favorite BooksIan McEwan, Alice Munro, Jamel Brinkley, and more.
    By Curtis Sittenfeld
  32. Anthony Bourdain Was a Great Crime Novelist, TooAs his celebrity grew in stature, I kept hoping, foolishly perhaps, that Bourdain might return to his first writing love.
    By Sarah Weinman
  33. books
    3 Boston Review Poetry Editors Resign Over the Magazine’s Handling of Junot DíazDíaz has been an editor at the magazine since 2003.
    By Jackson McHenry
  34. carrie fisher
    Carrie Fisher’s Brother Said She Regretted Sharing Harrison Ford Affair StoryThe actress wrote about her tryst with Ford in The Princess Diarist.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  35. How Harold Ramis and Bill Murray Ended Their FeudIt involved doughnuts.
    By Brian Boone
  36. book review
    Rachel Cusk’s Kudos: The Outline Trilogy Gets Its Third MasterpieceVoice and style — can they be separated? The auteurs of autofiction are all stylists and tension between style and voice is why we’ve flocked to them.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  37. The Story of Harold Ramis and Amy Heckerling’s Secret Daughter“You know that married asshole that gets Kirstie Alley’s character pregnant and then won’t leave his wife?â€
    By Violet Ramis Stiel
  38. vulture lists
    The 7 Best Younger Easter Eggs in Marriage VacationIs Younger hiding a hot Australian cowboy from us?!
    By Maggie Fremont
  39. vulture lists
    All the Ways AMC’s Dietland Is Different From the BookCompared to Sarai Walker’s 2015 novel, the show adds new characters and revamps plot elements.
    By Eric Thurm
  40. 8 New Books You Should Read This JuneRachel Cusk, Tommy Orange, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  41. books
    Fire and Fury Publisher on Trump Memo: ‘How Do You Say ‘F You’ to the President’“I knew people would see it.â€
    By BORIS KACHKA
  42. one grand books
    Lisa Ling’s 10 Favorite BooksAmy Tan, Gabriel García Márquez, Dr. Seuss, and more.
    By Lisa Ling
  43. summer preview 2018
    18 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This SummerGet a bigger beach bag.
    By Maris Kreizman and Boris Kachka
  44. Philip Roth’s Biographer Has a Hair-raising Claire Bloom StoryBlake Bailey on how the job changes when the subject’s no longer around.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  45. How Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore Cover Came TogetherRevealed exclusively on Vulture.
    By Lila Shapiro
  46. from the archives
    The Making of Tom Wolfe’s ‘Radical Chic’Remembering the story that helped put New York on the map.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  47. adaptations
    How Does Amazon’s Picnic at Hanging Rock Compare to the Movie and the Book?The new mini-series is much, much bigger than Joan Lindsay’s original novel or Peter Weir’s classic movie.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  48. Mary Gordon’s 10 Favorite BooksVirginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and more.
    By Mary Gordon
  49. 20 Philip Roth Books, RankedThe indispensable, the significant, the disposable, and everything in between.
    By Boris Kachka, Sam Anderson, and Christopher Bonanos
  50. books
    There Were Many Philip RothsWe remember the slab of liver and the sex, but Roth probably contemplated death more than any writer after Tolstoy.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  51. obituaries
    Novelist Philip Roth Dead at 85The Pulitzer Prize–winning author leaves behind a prolific body of work.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
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