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The Man Who Knew Too Much

 The plot of Lawrence Wright’s new novel was always prescient, but it arrived much sooner than he thought it would. By Lila Shapiro
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Everything We Learned From Woody Allen’s Controversial Memoir

 From his affair with Soon-Yi to the molestation allegation. By Hunter Harris
strange times

‘I Feel Like an Asshole All the Time’: Promoting a Book During a Pandemic

 Bess Kalb on releasing Nobody Will Tell You This But Me as the world burns. By Molly Young
  1. backstories
    The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe plot of Lawrence Wright’s new novel was always prescient, but it arrived much sooner than he thought it would.
    By Lila Shapiro
  2. books
    Everything We Learned From Woody Allen’s Controversial MemoirFrom his affair with Soon-Yi to the molestation allegation.
    By Hunter Harris
  3. trailer mix
    Watch a Very Sex-Forward Trailer for the Normal People TV ShowPremiering on Hulu on April 29.
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. obits
    Children’s Author Tomie dePaola, Writer of Strega Nona, Dead at 85The children’s author created more than 250 books during his career, including the adventures of Big Anthony and that magic pasta pot.
    By Halle Kiefer
  5. books
    Dolly Parton Is More Than Happy to Read You and Your Kids a Bedtime StoryHopefully, Dolly’s voice can counteract the whole “waking up at 4 a.m. in a full panic attack” part of quarantine.
    By Halle Kiefer
  7. reading lists
    The Books Our Political Writers Are Reaching for Right NowA reading list for finding some perspective in a crisis.
    By The Editors
  8. all by myself
    9 Great Books With Lonely ProtagonistsInvestigating the wild terrain of the isolated mind.
    By Hillary Kelly
  9. strange times
    ‘I Feel Like an Asshole All the Time’: Promoting a Book During a PandemicBess Kalb on releasing Nobody Will Tell You This But Me as the world burns.
    By Molly Young
  10. books
    Michael Scott Had a Pet Parrot Named Jim CarreyAnd other interesting things we learned from a new book about The Office.
    By Brian Boone
  11. book excerpt
    An Oral History of The Office’s Insane Fire Drill EpisodeAn excerpt from Andy Greene’s The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s.
    By Andy Greene
  14. book excerpt
    Kenny Rogers Was Never Just One Kind of ArtistPop-country owes a debt of gratitude to the late singer and his debut hit “Lucille.”
    By Craig Jenkins and Kenny Rogers
  15. 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
  16. memoirs
    Woody Allen’s Memoir Is Out Under a New PublisherArcade Publishing released Apropos of Nothing two weeks early.
    By Zoe Haylock
  17. endings
    Hilary Mantel Thinks the Last Book Is Her BestThe author on her final beheading, and debuting the last installment in her trilogy with no book tour.
    By Hillary Kelly
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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.”
    By Nate Jones
  22. 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.”
    By Lila Shapiro
  23. 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
  26. 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
  27. books
    Philip Roth’s Erotic Pee Scene Is One of the Most Tender Moments in LiteratureWhat 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.
    As told to Maris Kreizman
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. book excerpt
    Penny Marshall Hated Working With Barry Sonnenfeld on Big“She truly disliked me as her cinematographer.”
    By Barry Sonnenfeld
  34. 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
  35. well well well
    Hachette Book Group Cancels Woody Allen’s Memoir“The decision to cancel Mr. Allen’s book was a difficult one.”
    By Hunter Harris
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. books
    Colin Quinn to Roast All 50 States in His New BookOverstated will hit bookstores in September.
    By Megh Wright
  43. 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
  44. books
    Ronan Farrow Cuts Ties With Hachette Over Woody Allen MemoirFarrow called for a full fact-check of the memoir.
    By Charu Sinha
  45. adaptations
    Lionsgate Finally Answers Prayers With Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret PicThe original period drama.
    By Halle Kiefer
  46. prepare yourself
    Woody Allen’s Autobiography Will Arrive Next MonthHe finally found a publisher.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  47. one grand books
    Helen McCrory’s 10 Favorite BooksFrom Fyodor Dostoevsky to Steve Coogan (yes, that one).
    By Helen McCrory
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. books
    The Best Sex I Ever Read Was By the Famously ‘Dick-Centric’ Henry MillerMary Gaitskill on one of the few passages where the author praises someone’s vagina.
    As told to Lila Shapiro
  53. 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
  54. language
    Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?The pernicious spread of garbage language.
    By Molly Young
  55. 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
  56. 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
  57. 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
  58. 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
  59. 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
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