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  1. modern feminism
    Elisabeth Moss Isn’t Convinced The Handmaid’s Tale Is Feminist“It’s a human story, because women’s rights are human rights.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  2. book club
    Revisit Bill O’Reilly’s Novel About a Villainous TV Newsman Seeking RevengeYou can’t make this stuff up.
    By Devon Ivie
  3. Judd Apatow Is Writing Another Book of Comedian Interviews Called ‘Sicker […]Judd Apatow has a new book in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apatow is writing a sequel to his 2015 book Sick in the […]
    By Megh Wright
  4. An Excerpt from ‘The Official Handbook of the Bowieverse,’ by Alex Firer […] Alex Firer has written for The Onion, The Onion News Network, Paste Magazine, Cafe.com and can be seen every fourth Wednesday at the […]
    By Brian Boone
  5. vulture book club
    Stephen Colbert Is Turning One of His Most Popular Late Show Segments Into BookYes. Would buy.
    By Devon Ivie
  7. Stephen Colbert Is Turning His ‘Midnight Confessions’ ‘Late Show’ Segment […]Stephen Colbert is turning one of his regular Late Show segments into a book. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Colbert has signed on to […]
    By Megh Wright
  8. book bait
    Alec Baldwin Calls Trump and Sean Spicer the Head Writers of Saturday Night Live“They’re going to win an Emmy this year.â€
    By Hunter Harris
  9. painless shopping
    34 Highly Giftable Spring Coffee-Table BooksFrom the perfectly constructed burger and Raymond Pettibon monograph to a Japanese minimalism guide and an Amanda Lepore memoir.
    By The Editors
  10. Eddie Izzard Announces US Book Tour Dates for His Upcoming Memoir ‘Believe […]Eddie Izzard’s new memoir Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens hits bookstores in June, and he’s going on a US standup tour […]
    By Megh Wright
  11. discoveries
    Margaret Atwood Hints at Future Handmaid’s Tale Material in Extended AudiobookTurns out there were some questions at the Twelfth Symposium on Gileadean Studies.
    By Jackson McHenry
  12. memoirs
    Alec Baldwin Is Still Mad That Harrison Ford Replaced Him As Jack RyanWhat we learned from Alec Baldwin’s memoir Nevertheless.
    By Jackson McHenry
  13. book review
    What Happens When Critics Grow Up, and Look BackMemoirists Daphne Merkin and Lee Siegel built their lives around books. Why?
    By Christian Lorentzen
  14. adaptations
    With AMC’s The Son, Novelist Philipp Meyer Is Ready to Test HollywoodThe adaptation is a more genre-fied and only slightly less sprawling version of the original.
    By Boris Kachka
  15. compare and contrast
    All the Ways Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why Is Different From the BookYour guide to the story’s key details and how they’ve changed.
    By Madeleine Buckley
  16. adaptations
    HBO Picks Up Italian TV Adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan NovelsBut who will play Lila and Lenu?
    By Jackson McHenry
  17. interview
    Jay Chandrasekhar on the Rhythm of ComedyJay Chandrasekhar is a writer, actor, comedian, and director. He was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, and has directed […]
    By Alex Dueben
  18. W. Kamau Bell’s First Book ‘The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell’ Is Out […]Standup and new CNN star W. Kamau Bell has written his first book, and it’s coming out in May. The book has an impressively long title: The […]
    By Megh Wright
  19. select all
    Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140: To Save the City, We May Have to Drown ItKim Stanley Robinson’s newest book imagines a New York where the sea level has risen 50 feet. And it still sounds like the best city in the world.
    By Jake Swearingen
  20. Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman to Produce a ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Movie […]George Saunders’s new novel is headed to the big screen with some help from Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman. According to Deadline, Mullally […]
    By Megh Wright
  21. the answer to the ultimate question
    Ted Cruz Used Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to question Neil GorsuchAfter you finish 1984 and Handmaid’s Tale, Ted Cruz has a recommendation for you.
    By Tolly Wright
  22. spring preview 2017
    Spring Preview: Letterman, Strout, and 8 More Books We Can’t Wait to ReadYou’re about to be very busy.
    By Boris Kachka and Maris Kreizman
  23. obits
    Remembering New York Review of Books Founder Robert SilversA magazine creates its own future by constantly setting an example for the next generation to follow, and Silvers devoted his life to it.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  24. deaths
    New York Review of Books Founding Editor Robert Silvers Dead at 87According to the Times, he had been battling a brief illness.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  25. books
    How to Talk to All the People on the Subway Also Reading AmericanahChimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel is the city’s “One Book, One New York†pick.
    By Jackson McHenry
  26. Cormac McCarthy Rents ‘Tin Cup’ from a Blockbuster Video, by Patrick Coyne He stood and looked over the building. He had his fist clenched at his chest. He entered. Dust and ash everywhere. The crushing emptiness of […]
    By Brian Boone
  27. great adaptations
    Kerry Washington Is Adapting The Mothers for the Big ScreenSo. Many. Secrets.
    By Devon Ivie
  28. books
    Elif Batuman: ‘Email Enabled a Whole New Kind of Pretentiousness’“Email enabled a whole new kind of pretentiousness.â€
    By Christian Lorentzen
  29. book excerpt
    This Is the Scene That Got William Daniels to Play Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World“Here was a Mr. Feeny I knew I could play.â€
    By William Daniels
  30. books
    Author John le Carré to Revive Spy George Smiley After 27 Years in New NovelPrevious Smiley books have been adapted into movies like The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Tinker Tailor Solider Spy.
    By Halle Kiefer
  31. An Excerpt from ‘Danger…With a Hard G’ by Matthew David Brozik “You won’t mind if I ask to see some identification, I’m sure. It’s precinct policy.†The cheerfulness of the property clerk behind the […]
    By Brian Boone
  32. $$$$
    Barack and Michelle Obama Sign Book Deals With Penguin Random HouseThe two will write their own autobiographies separately, but sell them as a unit.
    By Halle Kiefer
  33. books
    When Joan Didion Visited the South in 1970Failure is part of the origin myth of New Journalism.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  34. must reads
    8 New Books You Need to Read This MarchBy Jami Attenberg, Hari Kunzru, Elif Batuman, and more.
    By Boris Kachka
  35. books
    Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen Are Already Writing a Satirical Book About TrumpBaldwin will, of course, read the audiobook version in character.
    By Hunter Harris
  36. the political climate
    Australian Author Recounts Terrifying Detainment by U.S. Immigration Officers“This is what happens when extremists take power.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  37. twitter trolls
    This Book Publisher Has Really Committed to Trolling Sean Spicer on Twitter“hey ……. u got dippin dot on your faceâ€
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  38. chat room
    Matthew Weiner on His Novel, Mad Men Reunions, and Answering Fan Questions“How could I not acknowledge that this is a huge chunk of my life?â€
    By Soo Youn
  39. long lost reads
    Long Lost Walt Whitman Novel Has Been Found 165 Years LaterWhitman’s Life and Adventures of Jack Engle is considered a precursor to Leaves of Grass.
    By Tolly Wright
  40. The Golden Girls Proved Its Fearlessness Yet Again When It Tackled HIV/AIDSThe show reminded viewers of its progressiveness when Rose had an HIV scare.
    By Jim Colucci
  41. vulture book club
    Mick Jagger Wrote a Crazy Memoir, and We’re Likely Never Going to See ItIt was written in the early 1980s.
    By Devon Ivie
  42. Philip Pullman Returns to His Popular Material With New Trilogy The Book of DustThe Book of Dust will feature several characters from the best-selling His Dark Materials trilogy.
    By Tolly Wright
  43. a long talk
    George Saunders Discusses Lincoln in the Bardo, His Offbeat Debut Novel“America is this really cool idea that has never gotten its shit together 100 percent.â€
    By Boris Kachka
  44. creepy things
    Zach Galifianakis Reads a Creepy Story by Butthole Surfers’ Gibby HaynesFrom the book Stories for Ways and Means.
    By Halle Kiefer
  45. dystopia
    Margaret Atwood: Donald Trump’s Presidency Boosted The Handmaid’s Tale Sales“You are seeing a bubbling up of it now.â€
    By Devon Ivie
  46. 7 Books You Need to Read This FebruaryBy George Saunders, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ali Smith, and more.
    By Boris Kachka
  47. Harry Potter and the Lost Generation, by Julien Darmoni In the days after you first broke through London on the express and found the true country with the poppies and the rains and the Forbidden […]
    By Brian Boone
  48. ads work
    The Handmaid’s Tale Is the Latest Dystopian Novel to Become a Best SellerThat Super Bowl commercial worked.
    By Jackson McHenry
  49. Ali Wong Is Writing a Book of Advice to Her One-Year-Old DaughterStandup Ali Wong is writing her first book. Entertainment Weekly reports that Wong, whose Netflix standup special Baby Cobra debuted last year, […]
    By Megh Wright
  50. sales sales sales
    Deal of the Day: An Amazon Kindle for 25 Percent OffYou won’t find a brand-new one for cheaper.
    By The Editors
  51. book clubs
    Suggestions for Kim Kardashian and Chrissy Teigen’s Book ClubHere’s what they should read next.
    By Hunter Harris
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