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  1. Downsizing’s Hong Chau Is Sick of Talking About That Accent“I’ve had so many interviews with people about the accent, the accent, the accent. It’s a necessary conversation but not a very fun conversation.”
  2. profile
    Alexander Payne Is Supersizing His Artistic Ambitions With a Very Tiny ComedyWith Downsizing, the director mines the comedy in the microscopic.
  3. new york beginnings
    The Director and the Pharaoh: How Thomas Hoving Created the Museum BlockbusterWhen King Tut became a celebrity.
  4. Annie Proulx Gave One of the Best National Book Award Speeches in Recent MemoryAt last night’s 2017 National Book Awards.
  5. 7 Books You Need to Read This NovemberIncluding titles by Anthony Quinn, Nadia Murad, A.J. Jacobs, and more.
  6. new york 50th anniversary
    What Oskar Eustis Has Learned From 30 Years of Friendship With Tony Kushner“There’s no artist I’ve learned more from than Tony, and what I’ve learned is a kind of fearless grandiosity.”
  7. 8 Books You Need to Read This OctoberFrom Jennifer Egan and Ta-Nehisi Coates to a biography of Leonardo da Vinci.
  8. Art of Fielding Plagiarism Accusations Have Been a Low-Level Menace for YearsCharles Green’s allegations have been disseminated to one outlet after another that knew better than to publish a damaging story with no actual proof.
  9. 9 Books You Need to Read This SeptemberNew from Jesmyn Ward, Eileen Myles, Salman Rushdie, and more.
  10. fall preview 2017
    The Rise and Return of Jesmyn WardFrom small-town Mississippi to an out-of-the-blue National Book Award — then back to Mississippi to write her third novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing.
  11. 8 Books You Need to Read This AugustBy Claire Messud, Cree LeFavour, Frederick Crews, and more.
  12. 8 New Books You Need to Read This JulyBy Matthew Klam, Sylvia Brownrigg, James Kelman, and more.
  13. 7 New Books You Need to Read This JuneA different look at Lincoln’s abolitionist efforts, a Central African Robin Hood, summer-ready mysteries, and more.
  14. On Set and Behind-the-Scenes Photos of The Leftovers FinaleJustin Theroux, Carrie Coon, Mimi Leder, and the finale of The Leftovers.
  15. How to End a TV Show: An Exclusive Look at the Making of The Leftovers FinaleThe hardest part about making Damon Lindelof’s Apocalypse-obsessed follow-up to Lost was figuring out how it should end.
  16. Why The Leftovers Did an ‘International Assassin’ SequelThere was a lot of discussion of the Bourne and Bond movies.
  17. chat room
    Amy Brenneman Had a ‘Million Questions’ About Her Big Leftovers Episode“I didn’t entirely know how she got there.”
  18. inside the leftovers
    Why The Leftovers’ ‘Sex on a Boat’ Episode Was So ExpensiveBy the end of the episode they were almost $70,000 over budget.
  19. on location
    How The Leftovers Picked 5 Iconic Melbourne Locations for Kevin & Nora’s Episode“We took our eyes off the street for ten minutes and we had our own graffiti tagged.”
  20. 7 New Books You Need to Read This MayBy Colm Toíbín, Tessa Hadley, Patricia Lockwood, and more.
  21. chat room
    Scott Glenn on His Bonkers Episode of The Leftovers“I was overjoyed. I called Damon up and I said, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.’”
  22. inside the leftovers
    The Writer Behind Nora’s Wu-Tang Clan Tattoo on The Leftovers“I think it was probably the weirdest pitch that I had to offer.”
  23. chat room
    Mark Linn-Baker on His Grand Leftovers Return“It was a great opportunity for me to do something unexpected.”
  24. inside the leftovers
    Damon Lindelof Explains The Leftovers’ Opening PrologueAnother mysterious, dialogue-free sequence.
  25. backstories
    The Story Behind The Leftovers’ Big RevealIt all came down to how they shot it.
  26. feature
    With Rumors, Scandal, and a Record Budget Shortfall, What Broke the Met?Just a year ago, the museum was planning an ambitious expansion and touting record attendance. Now its director has been ousted.
  27. adaptations
    With AMC’s The Son, Novelist Philipp Meyer Is Ready to Test HollywoodThe adaptation is a more genre-fied and only slightly less sprawling version of the original.
  28. spring preview 2017
    Spring Preview: Letterman, Strout, and 8 More Books We Can’t Wait to ReadYou’re about to be very busy.
  29. must reads
    8 New Books You Need to Read This MarchBy Jami Attenberg, Hari Kunzru, Elif Batuman, and more.
  30. media
    Why Was New York Times Theater Critic Charles Isherwood Fired?And what prompted the paper to go through his emails?
  31. a long talk
    George Saunders Discusses Lincoln in the Bardo, His Offbeat Debut Novel“America is this really cool idea that has never gotten its shit together 100 percent.”
  32. 7 Books You Need to Read This FebruaryBy George Saunders, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ali Smith, and more.
  33. must reads
    8 Books You Need to Read This JanuaryBy Aravind Adiga, Paul Auster, Rachel Cusk, and more.
  34. most anticipated of 2017
    25 of the Most Exciting Book Releases for 2017Stretch out your preorder finger for releases from George Saunders, Roxane Gay, Paula Hawkins, and more.
  35. must reads
    7 Books You Need to Read This DecemberBy Michael Lewis, Siri Hustvedt, Ratika Kapur, and more.
  36. vulture cover story
    Natalie Portman Is Jackie KennedyIn the midst of newfound political turmoil, the actress revives the First Lady onscreen, a woman whose private resolve and public grace may have held the nation together.
  37. Natalie Portman Is Jackie KennedyIn the midst of newfound political turmoil, the actress revives the First Lady, whose private resolve and public grace held the nation together.
  38. vulture cover story
    Michael Chabon on His New Book and Donald TrumpThe Moonglow author spoke to New York about how much memoir needs to be in a memoir and saying a reluctant good-bye to President Obama.
  39. Finding a Resilient Spirit at the 2016 National Book Awards“I hit upon something that was making me feel better,” fiction winner Colson Whitehead said. “‘Be kind to everybody, make art, and fight the power.’”
  40. vulture lists
    26 Very Long Books Worth the Time They’ll Take to ReadRanging from Miguel de Cervantes in 1605 to Alan Moore in 2016.
  41. must reads
    7 Books You Need to Read This NovemberBy Michael Chabon, Zadie Smith, Wesley Lowery, and more.
  42. must reads
    8 Books You Need to Read This OctoberBy Nell Zink, Jonathan Lethem, Ha Jin, and more.
  43. books
    Talking to Belated Literary Upstart Nell ZinkAchieving fame hasn’t stopped the novelist from speaking her mind about the book business.
  44. must reads
    8 Books You Need to Read This SeptemberBy Emma Donoghue, Paul Freedman, Ann Patchett, and more.
  45. fall preview 2016
    Talking to the Author of The Nix, Fall’s Splashiest Debut NovelNathan Hill’s The Nix is this fall’s most ambitious first-time literary effort.
  46. vulture cover story
    In Conversation With Colson WhiteheadThe author of The Underground Railroad on Oprah’s endorsement, avoiding clichés of the “Southern Novel of Black Misery,” and whether maturity means never having to be funny again.
  47. books
    In Conversation With Colson WhiteheadThe author of The Underground Railroad on Oprah’s endorsement and avoiding clichés of the “Southern Novel of Black Misery.”
  48. how to plot a novel
    What Do Computers Know About Plot?Mapping stories with technology.
  49. how to plot a novel
    An Encyclopedia of Every Literary Plot, EverA far-from-comprehensive list of every archetype we know.
  50. must reads
    8 Books You Need to Read This AugustBy Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, Nicola Barker, and more.
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