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There Is No Safe Word

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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You Can’t Outrun Spotify

Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine suggests that logging off is the only way out of our music streaming nightmare.
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The Best Comedy Books of 2024

The most delightful, thought-provoking, educational, and just all in all funny.
  1. book review
    Han Kang’s Latest Novel Mines Korea’s Bloody PastWe Do Not Part is the very best kind of story-telling, poetic and ambiguous without ever shying away from horrible historic truths.
  2. cheat sheet
    The Rise of Rebecca Yarros, Mother of Dragon SmutWhat to know about the author of the breakout “Empyrean” series.
  3. in conversation
    David Lynch on His Memoir Room to Dream and Clues to His Films“People are detectives and we have life to find clues about in the same way we would with a piece of cinema.”
  4. physical media
    The Art Lost in L.A. FiresCount Warhol artworks, Gary Indiana’s library, and Schoenberg scores among the losses.
  5. reading is fun
    Maybe AJ Brown Can Be Our New BookTokThe Eagles wide receiver’s sideline read Inner Excellence became an Amazon best seller.
  6. no comment
    Amanda Palmer ‘Disturbed’ by Neil Gaiman Assault AllegationsBut “she has no comment,” a representative said, citing her ongoing divorce.
  7. okay bomer
    Matt Bomer Brings A Little Life Back to LifeNarrating a tenth anniversary audiobook, for your pain and pleasure.
  8. book review
    Fear and Loathing in BerlinAn Afghan girl seeks solace in sex and drugs in an ambitious but bloated debut.
  9. 2025 preview
    30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2025In uncertain times, we look to our sharpest writers.
  10. vulture lists
    8 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2025 Reading ListSherlock Holmes’s sidekick steps into the spotlight, while the Night Agent gets a new mission.
  11. mystery and intrigue
    Oh, Colleen Hoover’s Next Movie Is Going to Be UnhingedDakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway are having a diva-off.
  12. year in culture
    The Bests of 2024All the books, podcasts, and anime (plus TV, movies, music, and more) that captivated our critics (and John Waters) this year.
  13. year in culture
    Vulture’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2024From brat summer to a scandalous fall, here’s what our readers loved most this year.
  14. reading is fundamental
    Vulture’s 2024 Books Gift GuideA dearth of celebrity memoirs doesn’t mean a dearth of gossip.
  15. vulture lists
    9 Great Queer Holiday Romance Novels to Cozy Up With This DecemberFeaturing house swaps, fake dates, and conveniently placed mistletoe.
  16. rip
    Nikki Giovanni, Treasured Poet, Dead at 81She died of complications from lung cancer.
  17. paws up lil zazzters
    HBO Is Making a Decade-Long Harry Potter SeriesAnd has reportedly offered Paapa Essiedu the role of Severus Snape.
  18. this is me trying
    Taylor Swift’s Error-Laden Eras Tour Book Is Still a HitThe typo-filled tome has sold more than 800,000 copies.
  19. best of 2024
    The Best Books of 2024The novels and nonfiction that gave us unique perspectives on what it’s like to experience the world in all its sorrow and wonder.
  20. vulture lists
    2024 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading ListIncluding an ancient epic poem, a magic-realism masterpiece, and a Bob Dylan biography.
  21. book review
    The Perfect Fantasy Novel for These Uncertain TimesThe last book in Tad Williams’s influential Osten Ard series has a strong anti-authoritarian streak.
  22. why’d you make this film?
    Just How Queer Is Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Anyway?I didn’t recognize the William Burroughs I knew in it. So I got on a Zoom with the director.
  23. chat room
    If You Think That’s How Becky Lynch Is Going Out, You’re WrongThe WWE superstar knows that letting fans peek behind the curtain can hook them even more.
  24. the work of art
    How Jonathan Franzen Learned to Write a Franzen NovelTo finish The Corrections, he had to kill his protagonist — and his idea of what a book should be.
  25. scene report
    The Party Goes Late at the 75th National Book AwardsSipping prosecco amid the black-tie crowd at the packed publishing-world event in lower Manhattan.
  26. books
    Percival Everett Can’t Be Pinned DownHis masterful new novel, James, cements his status as one of our most idiosyncratic writers.
  27. the pluck of the irish
    The Best Irish Novels From the Past 15 YearsWhich works by Sally Rooney, Colm Toibin, and Claire Keegan among others, reign supreme?
  28. if i could turn back time
    14 Stunning Stories From Cher’s (First) MemoirFrom Warren Beatty asking her out when she was a teenager to her “chicken joke” with Carol Burnett.
  29. chapters
    I Thought the Sun Rose and Set on His Sicilian AssSonny Bono was one of the most charming — and possessive — men I’d ever met.
  30. book review
    Haruki Murakami Has Lost the SauceTwo new works read more like fan fiction set in the extended Murakami universe than the thrillingly strange novels he’s famous for.
  31. books
    Samantha Harvey Wins Booker Prize for Space-Station Novel OrbitalIt’s the second-shortest book to be awarded the prize.
  32. books
    Literary AssassinRevealing the secret histories of Joan Didion, Donna Tartt, and Eve Babitz.
  33. obits
    Bastard Out of Carolina Author Dorothy Allison Dies at 75She was a voice for poor, rural queer people across the country.
  34. read me read me read me
    Robert Smith Is a Big Ol’ Book NerdTracking the not-so-hidden literary references on the Cure’s new album.
  35. vulture lists
    10 Books With Grotesquerie VibesWhether you’re into creepy Catholic-coded camp or just here for Travis Kelce.
  36. anonymous in publishing
    Who’s Really Writing Celebrity Novels?The writers and agents working behind the scenes tell us how it actually works.
  37. what happened here?
    What It’s Like to Be a NovelistSometimes the books just don’t work.
  38. tributes
    Gary Indiana’s Exuberant VenomThe late critic and novelist documented the seedy vanities and sorrows of American life with bitchiness and, sometimes, sympathy.
  39. announcements
    Sign Up for Book GossipA monthly newsletter about what we’re reading and what we actually think about it.
  40. celebrity memoir
    ‘Please Tell Me, What’s Wrong With Me?’In his new memoir, Sonny Boy, Al Pacino looks back on his “moon shot” of a life in Hollywood — and a few acute regrets.
  41. sexual abuse
    Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley Asks Ex-Manager to Testify ‘Under Oath’ Over AllegationsGreig Nori has denied claims he groomed and abused Whibley.
  42. required reading
    Professor Taylor Swift Assigns More Reading to The Tortured Poets DepartmentIt’s an Eras Tour book.
  43. presley industrial complex
    From Here to the Great Unknown Is a Presley-Family Therapy SessionLisa Marie’s new memoir, co-authored by her daughter Riley Keough, lets the family grieve on its own terms.
  44. politics
    In Praise of Bad ReadersIn a time of war, there is a danger in surveying the world as if it were a novel.
  45. vulture lists
    A Beginner’s Guide to Junji Ito14 stories to go down the horror-manga auteur’s spiral.
  46. memoirs
    Everything Lisa Marie Presley Shared in Her Memoir So FarIncluding memories of grieving both Elvis and her son, plus claims that Michael Jackson was a virgin when they started dating.
  47. chapters
    Enjoy J. Smith-Cameron’s Martini-Themed Crossword Puzzle ‘With a Twist’An excerpt from A24’s new book of puzzles, 99 TV Crosswords.
  48. book review
    Alan Hollinghurst Tries to AtoneThe writer has tended to fetishize marginal POC characters in his novels. In Our Evenings, he puts a biracial man at the center for the first time.
  49. best of 2024
    The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)Fiction that feels like a primal scream.
  50. social studies
    The Return of Ta-Nehisi CoatesA decade after “The Case for Reparations,” he is ready to take on Israel, Palestine, and the American media.
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