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  1. year in review
    Everything Kristen Stewart Tried to Tell Us With Her T-Shirts in 2018She contains multitudes.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  2. letters
    Comments: Week of December 24, 2018Readers sound off on our 14th annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue, the state of Mario Batali’s empire, and more.
  3. best of 2018
    Hear Vulture Writers Discuss the Best Pop Culture of 2018 for Two Glorious HoursMatt Zoller Seitz, Jerry Saltz, Emily Yoshida, Dee Lockett, Sara Holdren, and Maris Kreizman shared favorites from the year in culture.
    By Vulture Editors
  4. science of us
    The Best Health and Science Books of 2018Featuring dreams and social anxiety and psychedelic drugs.
    By Edith Zimmerman, Katie Heaney, and Melissa Dahl
  5. year in culture 2018
    In 2018, TV Didn’t Know How to StopFrom Barry and Homecoming to The Handmaid’s Tale and American Vandal, it’s the age of the unnecessary second season.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  6. close reads
    Husbands Are a Liability, According to Movies in 2018Are you in the mood to have your career thwarted? Good. Marry a man, he will mess it it up.
    By Hunter Harris
  7. cut chats
    The Great Glitter Conspiracy of 2018How can anyone rest without knowing who is secretly buying so much glitter?
    By Edith Zimmerman
  8. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Book Covers of 2018, Described by Their DesignersThe artists behind the year’s most eye-catching covers talk about their sometimes torturous process.
    By Lila Shapiro
  9. year in review 2018
    All the Beauty Drama That Went Down in 2018There was a lot.
    By Erica Smith
  10. best of 2018
    The 10 Best True-Crime Podcasts of 2018Believed, Thunder Bay, Bear Brook, and more.
    By Nicholas Quah
  11. best of 2018
    The 10 Weepiest TV Moments of 2018Divorce, death, and candy bars.
    By Maggie Fremont
  12. year in culture 2018
    9 Books of Poems That Prove 2018 Was a Fantastic Year — at Least for Poetry.Including two rediscovered classics, a brilliant song of Trump-era outrage, and a transgender scholar’s reworking of Middle English.
    By Meghan O’Rourke and Meghan O'Rourke
  13. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Saturday Night Live Sketches of 2018Rounding up our favorite musical parodies, recurring sketches, and delightfully bizarre original characters of the year.
    By Matthew Love
  14. last night on late night
    And the Award for Viral Video of the Year 2018 Goes To …The internet has hit a lot of dingers over the past 12 months.
    By Halle Kiefer
  15. politics
    Nevada Becomes First State With Women-Majority LegislatureIt really was the “year of the woman” at the state legislative level.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. close reads
    Pop Music Was 2018’s Greatest Movie VillainIn Vox Lux and A Star Is Born, pop stardom represents an alluring but unhealthy temptation.
    By Nate Jones
  17. year in culture 2018
    The Most Political TV Moments of 2018From Matt Damon’s Kavanaugh impression and The Good Fight’s pee-tape episode to Roseanne’s revival and downfall.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  18. best of 2018
    The Best Audiobooks of 2018Deborah Eisenberg did her brilliant stories justice and the Beastie Boys invited over a famous cast of dozens.
    By Jenni Laidman
  19. best of beauty 2018
    The 13 Best Beauty Products of 2018These are the ones we love best out of everything we’ve tried.
    By Hayley Schueneman
  20. culture
    Ariana Grande’s Upside-Down Christmas Tree Is a Metaphor for 2018“Sometimes life just be upside-down,” she said.
    By Kimberly Truong
  21. year in review
    The 18 Best Celebrity Style Moments of 2018From Justin Bieber’s slide sandals to Meghan Markle’s nail polish.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  22. senate
    McSally Appointment Makes Arizona Sixth State With Two Women As SenatorsMcSally will have to run again in 2020, and if she wins and wants a full term, yet again in 2022. Four Western states now have two women as senators.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. best of 2018
    The Best Board Games of 2018Party games, town-building, high-quality reissues, and more.
    By Keith Law
  24. year in culture 2018
    The Year in Netflix: What It Got Right (and Wrong) in 2018The streaming TV behemoth got much, much bigger. Again.
    By Josef Adalian
  25. year in review 2018
    The Anonymous Gossip From 2018 I Can’t Stop Thinking AboutPlease tell me which celebrity put her partner’s clothes through a paper shredder.
    By Allie Jones
  26. year in review 2018
    The Best Candid Photos of Celebrities in 2018From the infamous lollipop stroll to yachting vacations, here is what celebs did in 2018.
    By Allie Jones
  27. best of 2018
    The 10 Biggest Late-Night Sagas of 2018From Kanye to Feckless Cuntgate and everything in between.
    By Bethy Squires
  28. best of 2018
    The Top 10 Documentaries of 2018Including Shirkers, Amazing Grace, and They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  29. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Superhero Stories of 2018Featuring Black Panther, multiple iterations of Spider-Man, Mister Miracle, the X-Men, and more.
    By Abraham Riesman
  30. best of 2018
    Fiction’s 10 Best Scenes of 2018Shocking confessions, acts of depravity, and a feminist meet-cute with a merman.
    By Hillary Kelly
  31. 2018 midterms
    Unlike Obama, Trump’s Response to Midterm Defeat Was to Double DownObama took responsibility for his party’s defeat and at least offered negotiations with the opposing party. Trump: not so much.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. year in culture 2018
    The 10 Hottest Movie Dads of 2018Hot Movie Dads have been everywhere over the past 12 months. Let’s talk about it.
    By Rebecca Pahle
  33. 2018 midterms
    Even Old Folks Trended Democratic in 2018The Democratic future depends on young and minority voters and college-educated women. But many seniors vote, and more of them are voting Democratic.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018Sentient plants, a telepathic key, obsessive-compulsive zombies and other avatars of our broken world.
    By Jaime Green
  35. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Podcast Episodes of 2018Decoder Ring, The Nod, This American Life, and more.
    By Nicholas Quah
  36. the year in pizza
    2018 Was the Year of the SliceNo more pretenders to the pizza throne.
    By Chris Crowley
  37. 2018 midterms
    Democrats Won Big With a Key Demographic of Trump’s Base During MidtermsIf you’re looking for a key 2020 demographic, white working class women who aren’t evangelicals could be crucial in battleground states.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. best of 2018
    The 10 Best TV Comedies of 2018The year’s most refreshing, experimental, and hilariously indelible shows.
    By Erik Abriss
  39. peak tv
    Almost 500 Scripted Shows Aired in 2018, But We Still Haven’t Hit Peak TVFor the first time in TV history, streamers like Netflix and Amazon had the biggest share of scripted production in 2018.
    By Josef Adalian
  40. government shutdown
    Oops, Trump Now Needs the Votes of Those GOP House ‘Losers’ He MockedAre the lame-duck Republicans Trump scorned going to race back to Washington to help him save face in the shutdown battle? Probably not.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. 2020 elections
    Does Donald Trump Have a Reelection Strategy?Trump seems incapable of “pivoting to the center” or becoming more popular. So either he’ll wing it, or focus on demonizing his opponent.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. year in culture 2018
    The 10 Best Performances of 2018Including Bradley Cooper, Zoe Kazan, and Rachel Weisz.
    By David Edelstein
  43. bookshelf
    The Best Cookbooks of 2018Including another Ina Garten hit; instant classics from the world’s best restaurants; and deep dives into Persian, Korean, and Southern cuisine.
    By Nikita Richardson
  44. year in review
    New York’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2018The articles our readers were most deeply engaged with this year.
  45. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Musical TV Moments of 2018From The Americans to Versace, these TV needle drops belong on your playlist.
    By Sean T. Collins
  46. year in review
    Strat Haul: This Supersharp Japanese Knife Is the Best Thing I Bought in 2018It slices, dices, butterflies, chops, and cuts like a dream.
    By Lauren Ro
  47. year in review 2018
    The 13 Biggest Celebrity Breakups and Makeups of 2018From Cardi B and Offset to Jenny Slate and Chris Evans.
    By Amanda Arnold
  48. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Comedy Books of 2018Featuring Chris Gethard, Nell Scovell, The Simpsons, The Kids in the Hall, and an intimate look at Robin Williams.
    By Brian Boone
  49. best of new york
    The Absolute Best New Restaurants of 2018A diner’s dozen.
    By Adam Platt
  50. year in review
    What Strategist Readers Bought: The 25 Top-Selling Things of 2018A year of pimple patches, weighted blankets, and metal straws.
    By The Editors
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