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  1. stan print media
    Drake Announces New Album to Accompany Titles Ruin Everything Poetry BookFor All the Dogs drops September 22.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  2. chapters
    I Killed GodMaria Bamford’s eulogy for her beloved best friend.
    By Maria Bamford
  3. book review
    How Zadie Smith Lost Her TeethSince her audacious debut, she has been moving toward character-driven realism. In the process, she’s become the least interesting version of herself.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  4. beach read book club
    How Does It End for Alex?Our book club discusses the ending of The Guest.
    By The Editors
  5. books
    Which Fall 2023 Comedian Memoir Is Right for You?Featuring releases from Maria Bamford, Reggie Watts, Leslie Jones, and more.
    By Brian Boone
  7. into it
    Brandon Taylor Wants to Bring Gatekeeping Back to Book CriticismThe internet didn’t invent argument-driven criticism, but it did breed a culture of forming an opinion on a piece of media before consuming it.
    By Sam Sanders
  8. books
    From Friends to Lovers: The Fanfic-to-Romance Pipeline Goes MainstreamWriters are jumping right from Archive of Our Own to the best-seller list.
    By Elizabeth Held
  9. fall preview 2023
    In Mona Awad’s Novels, Beauty Comes With a Side of Body HorrorHer latest novel, Rouge, shows how the quest for perfection can send you over the edge.
    By Emma Alpern
  10. beach read book club
    Does Alex Genuinely Care for Anyone?Our book club discusses chapters seven and eight of The Guest.
    By The Editors
  11. the grub street diet
    Hilary Leichter Is Navigating a Morning-Beverage Identity Crisis“The coffee crests in little golden peaks, like the froth left in the wake of a boat.â€
    By Rima Parikh
  12. chat room
    Jeezy Is Now a Self-Help GuruFor his first book, the rapper shares his unfiltered blueprint to success: “I’m still standing after all this time. You got to know why.â€
    By Abe Beame
  13. blindsided
    Michael Oher Focuses on His ‘Playbook’ Amid LawsuitDeclining to comment on conservatorship accusations at a book signing.
    By Claudia Rosenbaum
  14. chapters
    ‘Let’s Let the Squirrel Out of the Bag’On the Anchorman set, improv-comedy masters had the freedom to reimagine the film one line at a time.
    By Saul Austerlitz
  15. art-ificial intelligence
    AI-Generated Art Is Not Copyrightable, Judge Rules“Human authorship is an essential part of a valid copyright claim.â€
    By Zoe Guy
  16. beach read book club
    Who Can Really See Alex?Our book club discusses chapters four through six of “The Guest.â€
    By The Editors
  17. allegedly
    The Blind Side Author Michael Lewis Denies Lawsuit Allegations“It’s outrageous how Hollywood accounting works, but the money is not in the Tuohys’ pockets.â€
    By Bethy Squires
  18. oh yeah?
    Scott Pilgrim Gets an Extra Life As an Anime, and the Whole Cast Is BackMake some noise for the teaser, people.
    By Rebecca Alter
  19. oh no
    Iowa School District Is Using ChatGPT to Take Out Banned BooksA.I. tackling its No. 1 enemy head on: original work.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  20. lawsuits
    Can Sarah Silverman’s AI Lawsuit Save Us From Robot Overlords?“That’s part of what these cases are about: Let’s open the black box. Let’s see what’s inside.â€
    By Victoria Bekiempis
  21. beach read book club
    What Do You Do With a Guest Like Alex?Our book club discusses the first three chapters of “The Guest.â€
    By The Editors
  22. the grub street diet
    Emma Rosenblum Is Trying to Make Something Everyone Will Eat“The chicken was a crowd pleaser. I cooked it while drinking an Aperol Spritz, naturally.â€
    By Alan Sytsma
  23. everything must go
    Paramount Sells Simon & Schuster to KKR Investment FirmFor less than Penguin Random House was offering but also with less threat of an antitrust lawsuit.
    By Bethy Squires
  24. books
    Robert Plunket Is Fine With Being Rediscovered“It’s more time-consuming than you would think,†the author says of his recent revival.
    By Brandon Sanchez
  25. vulture lists
    10 Books to Read If You Enjoy Generation-Spanning Sci-Fi Epics Like FoundationSci-fi stories that don’t span centuries are so basic.
    By Vanessa Armstrong
  26. america has a problem
    Texas Booksellers Won’t Take Book Bans Lying DownThey have sued the state over a new sexual-content-rating law for books, calling it unconstitutional.
    By Zoe Guy
  27. announcements
    Read Emma Cline’s The Guest With Our New Book ClubIntroducing Beach Read Book Club, a limited-run newsletter where New York staff will discuss the season’s buzziest books alongside our readers.
    By The Editors
  28. vulture lists
    Greta Gerwig’s 10 Favorite BooksGeorge Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and more.
    By Greta Gerwig
  29. rip
    Milan Kundera, Czech-Born French Writer, Dead at 94His works include The Unbearable Lightness of Being as well as The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
    By Jason P. Frank
  30. encounter
    Andrew Lipstein Tries To Be GoodIn his novel The Vegan, he imagines a finance guy desperate to atone — and not for the sins you’d think.
    By Emma Alpern
  31. lawsuits
    Sarah Silverman Is Suing ChatGPTSilverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden are suing Meta and OpenAI over use of their work to train AI models.
    By Bethy Squires
  32. we the best review of books
    DJ Khaled Reviews Drake’s Poetry Book: ‘He Wrote a Sentence!’“The boy’s special now.â€
    By Justin Curto
  33. thrifty boy
    Can Nathan Fielder Save the It Ends With Us Movie?Specifically in the fashion department.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  34. chat room
    Hayley Kiyoko Didn’t Know If She Would Tour AgainThe pop singer and newly minted author on evading drag bans and adapting her breakout song into a best-selling novel.
    By Cat Cardenas
  35. obits
    Robert Gottlieb, Editor of Beloved and Catch-22, Dead at 92The list of writers he worked with looks like a survey of 20th-century literature.
    By Bethy Squires
  36. rip
    Cormac McCarthy, Acclaimed American Novelist, Dead at 89The No Country for Old Men author wrote gripping tales of the American West and portraits of apocalypse.
    By Zoe Guy
  37. controversy
    Eat, Pray, Love Author Eat-Pray-Pulls Book Set in RussiaElizabeth Gilbert’s new novel, The Snow Forest, will no longer come out in February 2024.
    By Jason P. Frank
  38. celebrity memoirs
    Elliot Page Says a Homophobic ‘Famous Actor’ Sexually Harassed HimAnd more revelations from Pageboy.
    By Zoe Guy
  39. books
    Showrunner Damon Lindelof Responds to Lost Accusations“I have no recollection of those specific things,†he tells Burn It Down author Maureen Ryan.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  40. we here for you
    12 Books to Fill the Succession-Size Hole in Your HeartStories with familial machinations, high-society satire, and juicy corporate power struggles — sound familiar?
    By Gina Chen
  41. photography
    Will Vogt Sees Rich PeopleThe photographs in These Americans depict the wealthy at leisure with their guard down.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  42. book club
    12 Books to Read If You Already Miss YellowjacketsIf Shauna’s book club were real, these are the titles she’d be reading.
    By Jessica Gentile
  43. vulture lists
    18 New Beach Reads for Every Kind of Book LoverBooks so good you’ll forget to reapply sunscreen.
  44. coming soon
    Japanese Breakfast Is Searching for the Next Japanese BreakfastWith an open casting call to star in Crying in H Mart.
    By Zoe Guy
  45. obits
    Money Author Martin Amis Dies at 73Amis co-helmed a controversial literary scene with Christopher Hitchens.
    By Bethy Squires
  46. work in progress
    Britney Spears Apparently Isn’t Quite Done With Her Book Yet“It may take me a year, maybe longer who knows … to share my story,†she wrote.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  47. next chapter
    BTS Stays Booked and BusyAs ARMYs suspected, that mystery best seller is a BTS book (not a Taylor Swift memoir).
    By Jennifer Zhan
  48. profile
    Jorie Graham’s Late WorkHow the poet — living with cancer, reeling from her mother’s death, and isolated on an island — wrote one of the finest books of her long career.
    By Kerry Howley
  49. chapters
    A Harry Potter Fan’s Dilemma‘What role does shame play in this dynamic between fan and fallen artist?’
    By Claire Dederer
  50. chat room
    Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book: The InterviewScott Aukerman talks about becoming Scott Authorman.
    By Rebecca Alter
  51. profile
    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Is Asking the Hard QuestionsAfter his first book was a hit, he decided to use his follow-up to tackle the most pressing issue he could think of: the US prison system.
    By Mallika Rao
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