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  1. The 90 Best Books for Comedy FansThe ultimate comedy library.
    By Brian Boone and Jenny Nelson
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    You Can Immerse Yourself in The Odyssey at a New Literary Festival This SummerThe inaugural Deep Water Literary Festival will include special readings of Emily Wilson’s new translation.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Did You Also Miss That Part of Florence’s Backstory in On Chesil Beach?The movie spells out a key piece of information that was only hinted at in the novella.
    By Nate Jones
  4. profiles
    What It Takes to Be Hermione GrangerHarry Potter and the Cursed Child star Noma Dumezweni on life at the center of a “benign cult.â€
    By Anna Silman
  5. Maria Cornejo’s 10 Favorite BooksJack Kerouac, Patti Smith, Fareed Zakaria, and more.
    By Maria Cornejo
  7. Robin Williams Broke Robert De Niro’s Nose and 9 More Stories from His BiographyIncluding a play with Steve Martin.
    By Matthew Love
  8. remembrances
    Tom Wolfe’s Path to ImmortalityNow Wolfe is dead and one wonders what color suit he’ll be buried in, because cremation wouldn’t do.
    By Christian Lorentzen
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    The Story of Robin Williams’s Last Night With John Belushi“He could hardly stand up, and yet he could play the guitar to perfection.â€
    By Dave Itzkoff
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    Ally Sheedy on Her Experience With Hollywood Sexism and Why It Will Never Change“I hope it changes. I hope I’m wrong. I’m not holding my breath.â€
    By Ally Sheedy
  11. Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Tao Lin: How ‘Auto’ Is ‘Autofiction’?And what’s more important, the auto or the fiction?
    By Christian Lorentzen
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    Pulitzer Prize Board Investigating Junot Díaz for MisconductDíaz says he will cooperate with the review.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
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    Leslie Odom Jr.’s 10 Favorite BooksTa-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Malcolm X, and more.
    By Leslie Odom Jr.
  14. Chris Gethard’s New Book ‘Lose Well’ Is Out in OctoberChris Gethard has written a new book that’s hitting bookstores this fall. Titled Lose Well, it’s his second book following A Bad Idea I’m About […]
    By Megh Wright
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    Our 7 Favorite Posters (Out of 427!) From Milton Glaser’s New CollectionFive decades of wall art from New York’s co-founder.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  16. #metoo
    One of Junot Díaz’s Accusers Reveals His Long History of ‘Misogynistic Abuse’She writes how Díaz “quickly became misogynistic, demeaning and cruel.â€
    By Amanda Arnold
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    Junot Díaz Withdraws From Writers’ Festival After Public Misconduct Accusation“As for so many in positions of power, the moment to reckon with the consequences of past behavior has arrived,†the festival said in a statement.
    By Halle Kiefer
  18. #metoo
    Junot Díaz’s Accuser Confronted Him Live During a Q&AIt was unclear to the hundreds of attendees whether Díaz recognized her, or pretended not to.
    By Boris Kachka and Devon Ivie
  19. The Best Books of the Year (So Far)The Sparsholt Affair, Asymmetry, Motherhood, and more.
    By Christian Lorentzen
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    Kathy Griffin’s 10 Favorite BooksRoxane Gay, Joan Rivers, and more.
    By Kathy Griffin
  21. #metoo
    Nobel Prize in Literature Will Not Be Awarded Due to Sex ScandalIt’s the first time since World War II they’ve postponed giving the award.
    By Sarah Spellings
  22. Eight New Books You Should Read This MayRachel Kushner, Jamel Brinkley, Michael Ondaatje, William Trevor, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
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    What Is Missing From Rachel Kushner’s New The Mars Room? Besides Plot.It’s fair to want more from a novel than the sensation of nodding your head in agreement.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  24. The Story Behind H. Jon Benjamin’s Failed Children’s Show, Midnight Pajama Jam“As we kept doing the show, our audience didn’t exactly swell.â€
    By H. Jon Benjamin
  25. motherhood
    In Her New Book Motherhood, Sheila Heti Confronts an Eternal Female CrossroadsThe writer takes up the problem of whether to have a baby in her engrossing autobiographical novel.
    By Molly Fischer
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    Your One Book, One New York Voting Cheat SheetHaven’t read the books in the contest but still really want to vote? Let us help you decide.
    By Maris Kreizman
  27. Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Interview With One of America’s Last Living SlavesIn 1931, she sought to publish an important piece of American history. Instead that oral history languished in a vault. Until now.
  28. Writers Really Love Seeing People Being Courteous on the SubwayPlus other things we learned from a questionnaire given to the five One Book, One New York contenders. (Big fans of Wild Wild Country.)
    By Maris Kreizman
  29. Curtis Sittenfeld on Writing Stories in the Wake of the ElectionAnd adapting them for a new Apple TV series, starring Kristen Wiig.
    By Maddie Crum
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    Questlove’s 10 Favorite BooksPrince, Patton Oswalt, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and more.
    By Questlove
  31. Five Great Writers Discussing Five Great BooksHari Kunzru, Jennifer Egan, Esmeralda Santiago, Imbolo Mbue, and Barry Jenkins discuss the five books vying to be this year’s One Book, One New York.
    By Vulture Editors
  32. Aidy Bryant and Lorne Michaels Are Developing a Hulu Comedy Based on Lindy […]Lindy West’s 2016 memoir Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman might turn into a comedy series at Hulu starring SNL’s Aidy Bryant. According to The […]
    By Megh Wright
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    Alexis Taylor’s 10 Favorite BooksDavid Hockney, Albert Camus, and more.
    By Alexis Taylor
  34. Michelle Dean’s Sharp Tells the Origin Stories of 10 Essential Female CriticsAcross these portraits it’s possible to trace currents in American literary history as it unfolded between World War I and now.
    By Christian Lorentzen
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    Prince’s Memoir Will Reportedly Be Published Before the Holiday SeasonJust in time for Princemas.
    By Tolly Wright
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    Kanye West Discovers Writing a Book Is Not a Financial OpportunityHe’s become a zen Twitter guru.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  37. great adaptations
    Nicole Kidman Is Bringing The Female Persuasion to the Big ScreenThe book was only released this month.
    By Devon Ivie
  38. exclusive
    Read Nico Tortorella’s Poems on the Penis, the Vagina, and His IdentityExcerpted from Tortorella’s book all of it is you.
  39. ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Updated For Adult Women Who […] Are you there god? It’s me, Margaret. I go by Mags now. Last time we chatted, I had just gotten my period. A lot has happened since. I’m 26 […]
    By Brian Boone
  40. exclusive
    Read the Scandalous Page 58 From Younger’s Soon-to-Be Real Fake NovelCharles … my goodness.
    By Jackson McHenry
  41. philosophy
    Kanye West is Writing a Philosophy Book“I’ve got a concept about photographs, and I’m on the fence about photographs.â€
    By Halle Kiefer
  42. Rose McGowan’s 10 Favorite BooksGabriel García Márquez, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Sexton, and others.
    By Rose McGowan
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    Meg Wolitzer Doesn’t Want to Be Tied to a ‘Moment’“I’m drawn by the flame of what’s out there, but frightened by it, too.â€
    By Lila Shapiro
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    Holy Noldor, a Brand New J.R.R. Tolkien Book Is Getting Released This YearTolkien called The Fall of Gondolin “the first real story†of Middle-earth.
    By Devon Ivie
  45. q&a
    The Perfect Nanny Author on Why We Can’t Look Away From Domestic Horror StoriesPerfect Nanny author Leïla Slimani on the difference between French and American mothers — and why she’s not watching the New York nanny trial.
    By Anna Silman
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    Junot Díaz Pens Essay About Childhood Sexual Abuse: ‘It F*cked Up My Whole Life’“I never told anyone what happened, but today I’m telling you.â€
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Roz Chast’s 10 Favorite Books“I avoid books about either World War. Or any war, really.â€
    By Roz Chast
  48. Talking ‘Look Alive Out There’ and the Importance of Humor Writing with […]Sloane Crosley may be an accomplished writer, but she’s still humble. Crosley is the acclaimed author of essay collections I Was Told There’d […]
    By Eric Farwell
  49. Meet Justina Ireland, YA Twitter’s Leading WarriorHow the activist and author became the most controversial figure in young-adult literature, one tweet at a time.
    By Lila Shapiro
  50. must reads
    8 Books You Should Read This AprilElaine Castillo, Meg Wolitzer, Sloane Crosley, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  51. Long Works of Literature Made Shorter—and Better—with the Addition of […] Atlas Shrugged “Who is John Galt?†The light was ebbing, and Eddie Willers could not distinguish the bum’s face. The bum had said it simply, […]
    By Brian Boone
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