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  1. book review
    ‘What Is the Power of My Body?’Emily Ratajkowski may want to join the feminist discourse, but in her essay collection she’s mostly in conversation with herself.
    By Jordan Taliha McDonald
  2. book review
    In Rax King’s Book Tacky, Lowbrow Is High PraiseA new essay collection celebrating trash culture is less certain about why some things are considered tacky at all.
    By Hillary Kelly
  3. vulture lists
    15 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Read Before the End of the YearHouse of Gucci, The Last Duel, and even a few adaptations not directed by Ridley Scott.
    By Emily Maskell
  4. capitalism
    Biden Administration Sues to Halt $2 Billion Simon & Schuster AcquisitionIn an antitrust case to prevent Penguin Random House from buying its competitor.
    By Rebecca Alter
  5. dune you feel like we dune
    We Need to Talk About the Name ‘Duncan Idaho’Duncan Idaho is not a character in Dune. Duncan Idaho is the name of a Chris Pratt character in an action movie that goes straight to Paramount+.
    By Nate Jones
  7. book review
    Kwon Yeo-sun’s ‘Lemon’ Is a Murder Mystery That Refuses to Be SolvedThe novel by Kwon Yeo-sun tracks the aftermath of a teen girl’s murder, with three very unreliable narrators.
    By Arianna Rebolini
  8. vulture lists
    8 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This MonthKatie Couric, Sutton Foster, Stanley Tucci, and more.
    By Marshall Heyman
  9. art du jour
    David Byrne’s New Book Is (Nothing But) DingbatsIllustrated dingbats, that is.
    By Devon Ivie
  10. the view from outside
    Meghan McCain Felt ‘Slapped’ When Joy Behar Said She Didn’t Miss Her on The ViewAnd she “no longer felt safe working at The View†afterward.
    By Justin Curto
  11. book excerpt
    ‘You Don’t Understand What This Is Doing to Me’In the age of anti-heroes Tony Soprano reigned supreme. In his new book James Andrew Miller explores the toll the character took on James Gandolfini.
    By James Andrew Miller
  12. double consciousnesses
    The Fiction of the Color LineFrom Nella Larsen to Mariah Carey, Black women writers have long used passing stories to crack our façades of race, class, and gender.
    By Brittany Luse
  13. book review
    Fear and Loathing in ‘Asian America’In The Loneliest Americans, Jay Caspian Kang tries but fails to restore meaning to an empty term.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  14. his favorite shapes
    Julio Torres Wrote a Children’s Book About a Plunger That Wants to Be a Vase“Because, well, why not?†he said.
    By Justin Curto
  15. the industry
    Sally Rooney Won’t Let Israel-Based Publisher Translate Her Latest BookShe said she welcomes a translation of Beautiful World, Where Are You that aligns with her boycott of Israel.
    By Justin Curto
  16. reading is fundamental
    Hey Grimes! Other Celebrities Read Too, Ya KnowNo one will ever beat Bradley Cooper reading Lolita to his 21-year-old girlfriend.
    By Bethy Squires
  17. book review
    A So-So Franzen Novel Is Still Better Than Most Books. That Said …In Crossroads, too many boring characters are boring in the same way.
    By Molly Young
  18. a long talk
    Jonathan Franzen Thinks People Can ChangeEven if, as his book Crossroads suggests, it’s nearly impossible to make it stick.
    By Merve Emre
  19. awards
    Hanif Abdurraqib Is One of This Year’s MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant RecipientsAlong with Ibram X. Kendi, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Don Mee Choi, and more.
    By Zoe Haylock
  20. the music man
    A Trump Aide Would Play ‘Memory’ When He Needed to Calm DownYes, the Cats song.
    By Justin Curto
  21. vulture lists
    7 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This MonthGabrielle Union, Liane Moriarty, and more.
    By Marshall Heyman
  22. book excerpt
    Phoebe Robinson’s Guide to Being a BossAn excerpt from the comedian’s new book.
    By Phoebe Robinson
  23. awards
    Katie Kitamura, Lauren Groff on National Book Award for Fiction LonglistPlus three debut novels.
    By Justin Curto
  24. book review
    The Magician Resists the Shallow Gestures of the Hollywood BiopicColm Tóibín’s new novel about Thomas Mann reaches for depths in its subject that mainstream film wouldn’t bother with.
    By Rumaan Alam
  25. profile
    Hearing Things With Ruth OzekiHer latest novel teems with voices — most of them belonging to what she might call “nonhuman persons.â€
    By Helen Shaw
  26. books
    Patricia Lockwood Makes the 2021 Booker Prize ShortlistNo One Is Talking About This is up against works by Damon Galgut, Maggie Shipstead, and more.
    By Zoe Haylock
  27. read like the wind
    Matrix and 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadEnjoy tales of angsty Irish lovers, computer repair, and radical nuns.
    By Molly Young
  28. best of 2021
    The Best Romance Novels of 2021 (So Far)Featuring enemies-to-lovers, office romances, and — of course — lots of Happily Ever Afters.
    By Carly Lane
  29. one grand books
    Michaela Coel’s 10 Favorite BooksBreakfast of Champions, Society Within, The Book of Eels, and more.
    By Michaela Coel
  30. book review
    You’ve Heard This One BeforeMaggie Nelson believes we react too quickly and think ungenerously. In her new book, she’s guilty of both.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  31. book review
    Sally Rooney in the StruggleBeautiful World, Where Are You is both her clearest attempt to wrestle with big ideas and her least readable novel.
    By Jane Hu
  32. well read
    Close Reading the Reads of The ChairFrom Chaucer to The Family of Man, every book in the Netflix series tells its own story.
    By Roxanne Fequiere
  33. fall preview 2021
    The Party Girl’s RevengeMarlowe Granados’s debut novel, Happy Hour, is a picaresque for the glamorous and broke.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  34. fall preview 2021
    Knausgaard Debarks for a New Frontier: Genre FictionNorway’s most famous self-exile talks to Torrey Peters about his horror-inspired novel The Morning Star.
    By Torrey Peters
  35. fall preview 2021
    40 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This FallIncluding Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Tiphanie Yanique, and, yes, Jonathan Franzen.
  36. book excerpt
    ‘Never Call Me Your Drummer Again’The full story of the time Charlie Watts punched Mick Jagger, excerpted from Sympathy for the Drummer.
    By Mike Edison
  37. vulture lists
    7 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This MonthStephen King, Sarah Ferguson, Andrea Bartz, and more.
    By Marshall Heyman
  38. fact vs fiction
    What Do Fiction Writers Owe Their IRL Inspiration?Cat Person and Stillwater constantly betray their main characters. It’s what makes them interesting.
    By Alice Bolin
  39. literature
    Dolly Parton Is Writing Her First Novel Run, Rose, Run With James PattersonAnd it comes with a companion album, y’all.
    By Zoe Haylock
  40. bad monkey
    Bill Lawrence’s Ted Lasso Follow-up Is a Show About Vince Vaughn in FloridaBad Monkey is based on Carl Hiaasen’s 2013 novel, and you better believe there’s an actual monkey in it.
    By Rebecca Alter
  41. chat room
    Cecily Strong Feels Good Whether or Not She Returns to SNL“I would love to go back; I would also love to have that be my end.â€
    By Rebecca Alter
  42. read like the wind
    The Listening House and 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadBuoy yourself through the dog days with tales of intrigue and minutiae.
    By Molly Young
  43. tv development
    Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor in Development at HBO MaxThe Underground Railroad effect.
    By Zoe Haylock
  44. scary stories
    Netflix’s Cinematic, Blood-Soaked Fear Street ExperimentHow a horror trilogy meant for theaters survived the pandemic-era streaming shake-up.
    By Isaac Feldberg
  45. book review
    Magma Lucidly Captures the Magical Thinking of a Coercive RelationshipWe see a young woman increasingly substituting an abuser’s logic for her own, and we see the ways that such a substitution damages her.
    By Brandon Taylor
  46. memoirs
    Mel Brooks Wrote a Memoir at 95All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business is out November 30.
    By Rebecca Alter
  47. profile
    Anthony Veasna So Knew He Was a StarWhen the author died at 28, he was on the cusp of literary fame. Everyone remembers him differently.
    By E. Alex Jung
  48. book review
    Alexandra Kleeman Writes a Neo-Noir About an Even Thirstier HollywoodIn her novel Something New Under the Sun, Alexandra Kleeman writes a water war as disturbing as it is absurd.
    By Jennifer Wilson
  49. booker prize
    Booker Prize Announces 2021 LonglistSee the full longlist here.
    By Cydney Lee
  50. underrated
    Revisiting Adam Resnick’s Brilliant 2014 Memoir With Tom Scharpling“It’s just the funniest book I’ve ever read.â€
    By Ian Goldstein
  51. trailer mix
    Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen Are Turning Their Libcast Into LiblitThe news arrived alongside a trailer showing Obama test-driving one of Springsteen’s convertibles.
    By Justin Curto
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