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Sally Rooney

  1. chat room
    Conversation with Friends’ Jemima Kirke Knows Why Melissa Allowed Nick’s Affair“It’s impossible that she’s this selfless.”
    By Ben Rosenstock
  2. overnights
    Conversations With Friends Recap: Kiss and TellBobbi is too self-absorbed to realize Frances has a crush of her own.
    By Jessica Goldstein
  3. overnights
    Conversations With Friends Series-Premiere Recap: Just Being PoliteWe’re back to the Sally Rooney Cinematic Universe, this time investigating the inner lives of four friends/lovers.
    By Jessica Goldstein
  4. tv review
    Conversations With Friends Thrives on What Goes UnsaidStrongly reminiscent of Hulu’s previous adaptation of a Sally Rooney Novel, the series puts sexual frankness at its center.
    By Jen Chaney
  5. encounter
    ‘What Would You Like to Know?’An afternoon of pleasant negotiation with actor, stealth musician, and Taylor Swift muse Joe Alwyn.
    By Rachel Handler
  6. trailer mix
    The Conversations With Friends Trailer Features a New Phoebe Bridgers Song‘sidelines’ is out now, as if we weren’t already emotional enough.
    By Justin Curto
  7. in other words
    What’s So Hard About Crediting Book Translators?Translations into English are expected to be seamless — but the people who do the work rarely get the attention or pay they deserve.
    By Kira Josefsson
  8. london boy
    Joe Alwyn Got Buff for Conversations With FriendsAnd we are looking journalistically.
    By Zoe Haylock
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. fall preview 2021
    40 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This FallIncluding Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Tiphanie Yanique, and, yes, Jonathan Franzen.
  13. casting
    Joe Alwyn and Other Famously Non-Irish People Cast in Conversations With FriendsJemima Kirke, Sasha Lane, and Alison Oliver join the latest adaptation of a Sally Rooney novel.
    By Zoe Haylock
  14. books
    Call Your Book Club, Sally Rooney’s Third Novel Is ComingBeautiful World, Where Are You drops September 7, 2021.
    By Rebecca Alter
  15. binge watching
    Don’t Try Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones’s Normal People Drinking GameYou wouldn’t think the moody drama would make for a good drinking game … and you’d be wrong.
    By Rebecca Alter
  16. comic relief
    Normal People Secretly Filmed Two Bonus Episodes Set 40 Years LaterIt imagines what would have happened to Marianne and Connell.
    By Rebecca Alter
  17. conversations with friends
    Hulu Picks Up Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends SeriesIt will be helmed by Normal People director Lenny Abrahamson.
    By Rebecca Alter
  18. a long talk
    Not So Normal AnymorePaul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones are the heart of Normal People’s sexy, angsty romance. And now they’re famous.
    By Rachel Handler
  19. tv review
    Normal People Is an Honest, Absorbing Love StoryIt also features a ton of sex.
    By Jen Chaney
  20. trailer mix
    Watch a Very Sex-Forward Trailer for the Normal People TV ShowPremiering on Hulu on April 29.
    By Jackson McHenry
  21. succession
    Shiv Definitely Hated Conversations With Friends, Right?Sally Rooney’s debut novel made a surprise cameo in Succession’s finale. But there’s no way Shiv liked it.
    By Sophie Vershbow
  22. tv orders
    Hulu Is Making the Inevitable Sally Rooney TV Show With Normal PeopleStarring newcomers Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal.
    By Jackson McHenry
  23. packing light
    What Is a Beach Read, and Why?The anatomy of a marketing concept, plus lots of new summer favorites.
    By Allison Duncan
  24. kids these days
    Sally Rooney’s Politics of Millennial ResignationWhy do critics so love the Normal People author? Maybe because her characters accept the status quo.
    By Cody Delistraty
  25. must reads
    7 New Books You Should Read This AprilSally Rooney, Robert Caro, and more.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  26. spring preview
    Spring Books Preview: Fiction We Can’t Wait to Read by Sally Rooney and OthersSubtle dystopias, #MeToo meditations, a mysterious vanishing, and just Normal People.
    By Maris Kreizman and Hillary Kelly
  27. most anticipated 2019
    37 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2019From old favorites (Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith) to new favorites (Sally Rooney, Marlon James), plus sequels to Olive Kitteridge and The Handmaid’s Tale.
    By Hillary Kelly, Maris Kreizman, and Lila Shapiro
  28. book review
    In Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends, the Narrator Strives to MatterThe first novel by the 26-year-old Irish writer wears its influences on its sleeve.
    By Christian Lorentzen