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  1. coronavirus side effects
    Lena Dunham Is Publishing a Romance Novel One Chapter at a TimeBecause clearly no one has time to read a whole book right now
    By Zoe Haylock
  2. memoirs
    Woody Allen’s Memoir Is Out Under a New PublisherArcade Publishing released Apropos of Nothing two weeks early.
    By Zoe Haylock
  3. reading lists
    What to Read During Self-Quarantine, According to McNally Jackson BooksellersFrom a Silicon Valley memoir to World War II history.
    By The Editors
  4. vulture recommends
    What to Watch and Read to Fill the March Madness VoidTen basketball-related things to read or watch that (kinda sorta) make up for missing March Madness.
    By Jen Chaney
  5. coronavirus
    Severance​ Predicted the Slow-Burn Performance of Our PandemicLike Ling Ma’s protagonist, we haven’t been shot out of a cannon and into a new world. We’re watching it unfold like a digitally broadcast picaresque.
    By Hillary Kelly
  7. the winds of winter
    A Bright Side to the Coronavirus: GRRM May Finally Finish The Winds of Winter“I am spending more time in Westeros than in the real world, writing every day.â€
    By Nate Jones
  8. coronavirus
    As N.Y.’s Indie Bookstores Close Their Doors, They Search for Community Online“People are just trying to maintain a connection to the world until it opens up again.â€
    By Lila Shapiro
  9. books
    Can You Tell Anyone How to Be an Artist?Artist Laurie Simmons and our art critic Jerry Saltz (they’re old friends) talk about his new book.
    By Laurie Simmons and Jerry Saltz
  10. movie review
    Lost Girls Is an Anti-Police ProceduralThe Netflix film will make you rethink your need for a certain kind of closure in a world that has so little of it.
    By David Edelstein
  11. sexcerpt
    The Best Sex I’ve Ever Read: An Erotic Pee SceneWhat so many other writers might use just for shock value, Roth uses in a way that encapsulates these two people’s love for each other.
    By Garth Greenwell
    As told to Maris Kreizman
  12. profile
    The Disaster ArtistEmily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven is speaking to our pandemic-frenzied moment. Her new book is even bleaker.
    By Hillary Kelly
  13. refreshers
    Everything You Need to Remember Before Reading the New Hilary Mantel BookThe Mirror and the Light caps off Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy, which began with 2009’s Wolf Hall.
    By Nate Jones
  14. books
    Mike Schur’s Upcoming Book Will (Hopefully) Help You Become a Better PersonHow to Be Good: A Definitive Answer for Exactly What to Do, in Every Possible Situation will hit bookstores in 2021.
    By Megh Wright
  15. eat the rich
    Why Emma Is Still Jane Austen’s Most Pleasurable HeroineGo ahead. Judge the hell out of her. That’s the point.
    By Hillary Kelly
  16. vulture lists
    The Best Pandemic Books to Read During CoronavirusWith stakes so high, it’s easy to see why novelists find outbreaks of disease so compelling. Here are 20 great fictional takes.
    By Tobias Carroll
  17. book excerpt
    Penny Marshall Hated Working With Barry Sonnenfeld on Big“She truly disliked me as her cinematographer.â€
    By Barry Sonnenfeld
  18. american dirt
    7 Key Moments From Oprah’s Book Club on American DirtFeaturing its author, Jeanine Cummins, and a visit to the border wall.
    By Rebecca Alter
  19. well well well
    Hachette Book Group Cancels Woody Allen’s Memoir“The decision to cancel Mr. Allen’s book was a difficult one.â€
    By Hunter Harris
  20. coronavirus
    Why Is Pandemic Fiction So Comforting Right Now?The coronavirus crisis is terrifying. Contagion is a surprisingly soothing way to grapple with that fear.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  21. read like the wind
    We Ride Upon Sticks and 9 More Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadThese books helped medicate my cabin fever, and possibly yours.
    By Molly Young
  22. books
    Publishing Staff Walk Out to Protest Woody Allen AutobiographyAt Hachette, which is set to publish the book in April, employees have walked out in solidarity with Dylan and Ronan Farrow.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  23. book drama
    My Dark Vanessa Was an Oprah’s Book Club Pick. Then It Was Abruptly Dropped.After controversies surrounding American Dirt and My Dark Vanessa, Oprah’s team decided they would not be moving forward with the book.
    By Lila Shapiro
  24. books
    Colin Quinn to Roast All 50 States in His New BookOverstated will hit bookstores in September.
    By Megh Wright
  25. book excerpt
    The History of Lip-SyncingAn excerpt from Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life.
    By Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez
  26. books
    Ronan Farrow Cuts Ties With Hachette Over Woody Allen MemoirFarrow called for a full fact-check of the memoir.
    By Charu Sinha
  27. adaptations
    Lionsgate Finally Answers Prayers With Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret PicThe original period drama.
    By Halle Kiefer
  28. prepare yourself
    Woody Allen’s Autobiography Will Arrive Next MonthHe finally found a publisher.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  29. one grand books
    Helen McCrory’s 10 Favorite BooksFrom Fyodor Dostoevsky to Steve Coogan (yes, that one).
    By Helen McCrory
  30. books
    PEN World Voices Festival 2020’s Lineup RevealedHighlights include Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Roxane Gay, and some of New York’s own.
    By Zoe Haylock
  31. crime
    Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Going to Jail for Book-Selling FraudShe was sentenced to three years for wire fraud and tax evasion.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  32. sexcerpt
    The Best Sex I’ve Ever Read: The Famously ‘Dick-Centric’ Henry MillerIn which the author praises someone’s vagina.
    By Mary Gaitskill
    As told to Lila Shapiro
  33. obits
    Clive Cussler, Adventure Author and Explorer, Dead at 88His novels were almost always best sellers, and, oh yeah, he discovered dozens of shipwrecks.
    By Devon Ivie
  34. language
    Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?The pernicious spread of garbage language.
    By Molly Young
  35. profile
    My Dark Vanessa Is Not a Love StoryAt 16, Kate Elizabeth Russell saw her book about a student’s affair with a teacher as a romance. She sees it differently now.
    By Lila Shapiro
  36. fiction
    ‘I Was 15 and He Was 42’Chapter one of My Dark Vanessa, the debut novel from Kate Elizabeth Russell.
    By Kate Elizabeth Russell
  37. obits
    American Novelist Charles Portis, Author of True Grit, Dead at 86The Arkansas-born writer worked as London bureau chief of the New York Herald Tribune, before returning to his home state and becoming a novelist.
    By Halle Kiefer
  38. no time to die
    The 7 Best Revelations From the New Unauthorized James Bond BookAhead of Daniel Craig’s bow in No Time to Die, the uncertainty of what’s next has prompted historians to take a hard look back.
    By Ryan Britt
  39. adaptations
    All the Changes HBO’s The Outsider Makes to Stephen King’s NovelYou don’t tap Richard Price to do an adaptation and expect him not to put some of his own fingerprints on it.
    By Brian Tallerico
  40. movie review
    To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You Almost Argues Itself Out of RomanceIn the sequel to Netflix’s hit 2018 teen rom-com, Lana Condor and Noah Centineo explore what comes after the happily ever after.
    By Alison Willmore
  41. encounter
    Jenny Offill Wrote the Perfect Worry NovelIn Weather, the author takes us through the Five Stages of Climactic Grief.
    By Hillary Kelly
  42. great adaptations
    P.S. I Love You Is Getting a Sequel, Will Trade Letters for PodcastsAnd it’ll hopefully bring back its best actor: the Irish countryside.
    By Devon Ivie
  43. notebooked
    Wait, Was Jessica Simpson Almost in The Notebook?She turned down the role “because they wouldn’t budge on taking out the sex scene.â€
    By Hannah Gold
  44. books
    Why Is Everyone Arguing About the Novel American Dirt?It was supposed to be the season’s big novel. Suddenly it’s an argument starter.
    By Rebecca Alter
  45. memoirs
    10 Heartbreaking Details From Jessica Simpson’s Memoir, Open Book“To walk forward through my anxiety, I first had to look back …â€
    By Zoe Haylock
  46. last night on late night
    Stephen Colbert Thinks The Hobbit Is Pretty MehHe is ready for your Twitter attacks.
    By Megh Wright
  47. read like the wind
    The Weight of Snow and 9 More Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadI want to issue an apology to everyone who urged me to read True Grit over the past decade.
    By Molly Young
  48. books
    The Best New Novel Was Written 90 Years AgoAn unearthed book by the Harlem Renaissance’s Claude McKay is a modern masterpiece.
    By Molly Young
  49. books
    What’s Going on With My Dark Vanessa and Excavation?The controversy involves a 2014 memoir and a forthcoming novel that both tell the story of a teacher engaging in a sexual relationship with a teen.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  50. obits
    Mary Higgins Clark, ‘Queen of Suspense’ and Prolific Author, Dead at 92More than 100 million copies of her books have been sold in America alone.
    By Devon Ivie
  51. books
    Jerry Seinfeld’s New Comedy Book to Be Released in OctoberHis last comedy book, Seinlanguage, was published over 25 years ago.
    By Megh Wright
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