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Misogyny Is Boring As Hell

 Carmen Maria Machado writes fantastical tales about the banal horrors of sexism. Lately, it’s her story about Junot Díaz that’s getting attention. By Lila Shapiro

Anthony Bourdain Was a Great Crime Novelist, Too

 As his celebrity grew in stature, I kept hoping, foolishly perhaps, that Bourdain might return to his first writing love. By Sarah Weinman

The Story of Harold Ramis and Amy Heckerling’s Secret Daughter

 “You know that married asshole that gets Kirstie Alley’s character pregnant and then won’t leave his wife?” By Violet Ramis Stiel
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    Junot Díaz Cleared in MIT Sexual-Misconduct Inquiry He’ll return to teach classes there this fall.
    By Hunter Harris
  2. book review
    Lydia Millet Is Not Nearly As Famous As She Should Be. The novelist is ferociously untame, paying little heed to the boundaries of realism and even less to those of class.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  3. one grand books
    Emily Wilson’s 10 Favorite Books Margaret Atwood, John Milton, William Shakespeare, and more.
    By Emily Wilson
  4. Her Body and Other Parties Is in Development As a Black Mirror-esque Series Gina Welch of The Terror is attached to write.
    By Lila Shapiro
  5. profile
    Misogyny Is Boring As Hell Carmen Maria Machado writes fantastical tales about the banal horrors of sexism. Lately, it’s her story about Junot Díaz that’s getting attention.
    By Lila Shapiro
  7. The Best Titles From Anthony Bourdain’s Book Imprint Anthony Bourdain’s publisher and collaborator selects the best books from Bourdain’s imprint.
    By Hunter Harris
  8. tributes
    Anthony Bourdain’s Editor Says He Was Working on a ‘More Personal’ New Book “I’ve never heard one person say anything negative about Tony Bourdain.”
    By Boris Kachka
  9. stranger things
    A Stranger Things Prequel Novel Is on the Way There will also be a behind-the-scenes companion reader.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  10. one grand books
    Curtis Sittenfeld’s 10 Favorite Books Ian McEwan, Alice Munro, Jamel Brinkley, and more.
    By Curtis Sittenfeld
  11. Anthony Bourdain Was a Great Crime Novelist, Too As his celebrity grew in stature, I kept hoping, foolishly perhaps, that Bourdain might return to his first writing love.
    By Sarah Weinman
  14. books
    3 Boston Review Poetry Editors Resign Over the Magazine’s Handling of Junot Díaz Díaz has been an editor at the magazine since 2003.
    By Jackson McHenry
  15. carrie fisher
    Carrie Fisher’s Brother Said She Regretted Sharing Harrison Ford Affair Story The actress wrote about her tryst with Ford in The Princess Diarist.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  16. How Harold Ramis and Bill Murray Ended Their Feud It involved doughnuts.
    By Brian Boone
  17. book review
    Rachel Cusk’s Kudos: The Outline Trilogy Gets Its Third Masterpiece Voice and style — can they be separated? The auteurs of autofiction are all stylists and tension between style and voice is why we’ve flocked to them.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  18. The Story of Harold Ramis and Amy Heckerling’s Secret Daughter “You know that married asshole that gets Kirstie Alley’s character pregnant and then won’t leave his wife?”
    By Violet Ramis Stiel
  19. vulture lists
    The 7 Best Younger Easter Eggs in Marriage Vacation Is Younger hiding a hot Australian cowboy from us?!
    By Maggie Fremont
  20. vulture lists
    All the Ways AMC’s Dietland Is Different From the Book Compared to Sarai Walker’s 2015 novel, the show adds new characters and revamps plot elements.
    By Eric Thurm
  21. 8 New Books You Should Read This June Rachel Cusk, Tommy Orange, and more.
    By Boris Kachka
  22. books
    Fire and Fury Publisher on Trump Memo: ‘How Do You Say ‘F You’ to the President’ “I knew people would see it.”
    By Boris Kachka
  23. one grand books
    Lisa Ling’s 10 Favorite Books Amy Tan, Gabriel García Márquez, Dr. Seuss, and more.
    By Lisa Ling
  26. summer preview 2018
    18 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer Get a bigger beach bag.
    By Maris Kreizman and Boris Kachka
  27. Philip Roth’s Biographer Has a Hair-raising Claire Bloom Story Blake Bailey on how the job changes when the subject’s no longer around.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  28. How Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore Cover Came Together Revealed exclusively on Vulture.
    By Lila Shapiro
  29. from the archives
    The Making of Tom Wolfe’s ‘Radical Chic’ Remembering the story that helped put New York on the map.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  30. adaptations
    How Does Amazon’s Picnic at Hanging Rock Compare to the Movie and the Book? The new mini-series is much, much bigger than Joan Lindsay’s original novel or Peter Weir’s classic movie.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  31. Mary Gordon’s 10 Favorite Books Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and more.
    By Mary Gordon
  32. 20 Philip Roth Books, Ranked The indispensable, the significant, the disposable, and everything in between.
    By Boris Kachka, Sam Anderson, and Christopher Bonanos
  33. books
    There Were Many Philip Roths We remember the slab of liver and the sex, but Roth probably contemplated death more than any writer after Tolstoy.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  34. obituaries
    Novelist Philip Roth Dead at 85 The Pulitzer Prize–winning author leaves behind a prolific body of work.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  35. The 90 Best Books for Comedy Fans The ultimate comedy library.
    By Brian Boone and Jenny Nelson
  38. Almost Nothing in Arthur “Weegee” Fellig’s Greatest Photo Happened By Accident “With this picture,” he said, “I matured as a photographer and human being.”
    By Christopher Bonanos
  39. books
    You Can Immerse Yourself in The Odyssey at a New Literary Festival This Summer The inaugural Deep Water Literary Festival will include special readings of Emily Wilson’s new translation.
    By Jackson McHenry
  40. on chesil beach
    Did You Also Miss That Part of Florence’s Backstory in On Chesil Beach? The movie spells out a key piece of information that was only hinted at in the novella.
    By Nate Jones
  41. profiles
    What It Takes to Be Hermione Granger Harry Potter and the Cursed Child star Noma Dumezweni on life at the center of a “benign cult.”
    By Anna Silman
  42. Maria Cornejo’s 10 Favorite Books Jack Kerouac, Patti Smith, Fareed Zakaria, and more.
    By Maria Cornejo
  43. Robin Williams Broke Robert De Niro’s Nose and 9 More Stories from His Biography Including a play with Steve Martin.
    By Matthew Love
  44. remembrances
    Tom Wolfe’s Path to Immortality Now Wolfe is dead and one wonders what color suit he’ll be buried in, because cremation wouldn’t do.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  45. book excerpt
    The Story of Robin Williams’s Last Night With John Belushi “He could hardly stand up, and yet he could play the guitar to perfection.”
    By Dave Itzkoff
  46. book excerpt
    Ally Sheedy on Her Experience With Hollywood Sexism and Why It Will Never Change “I hope it changes. I hope I’m wrong. I’m not holding my breath.”
    By Ally Sheedy
  47. Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Tao Lin: How ‘Auto’ Is ‘Autofiction’? And what’s more important, the auto or the fiction?
    By Christian Lorentzen
  50. #metoo
    Pulitzer Prize Board Investigating Junot Díaz for Misconduct Díaz says he will cooperate with the review.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  51. one grand books
    Leslie Odom Jr.’s 10 Favorite Books Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Malcolm X, and more.
    By Leslie Odom Jr.
  52. Chris Gethard’s New Book ‘Lose Well’ Is Out in October Chris Gethard has written a new book that’s hitting bookstores this fall. Titled Lose Well, it’s his second book following A Bad Idea I’m About […]
    By Megh Wright
  53. graphic design
    Our 7 Favorite Posters (Out of 427!) From Milton Glaser’s New Collection Five decades of wall art from New York’s co-founder.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  54. #metoo
    One of Junot Díaz’s Accusers Reveals His Long History of ‘Misogynistic Abuse’ She writes how Díaz “quickly became misogynistic, demeaning and cruel.”
    By Amanda Arnold
  55. #metoo
    Junot Díaz Withdraws From Writers’ Festival After Public Misconduct Accusation “As for so many in positions of power, the moment to reckon with the consequences of past behavior has arrived,” the festival said in a statement.
    By Halle Kiefer
  56. #metoo
    Junot Díaz’s Accuser Confronted Him Live During a Q&A It was unclear to the hundreds of attendees whether Díaz recognized her, or pretended not to.
    By Boris Kachka and Devon Ivie
  57. The Best Books of the Year (So Far) The Sparsholt Affair, Asymmetry, Motherhood, and more.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  58. one grand books
    Kathy Griffin’s 10 Favorite Books Roxane Gay, Joan Rivers, and more.
    By Kathy Griffin
  59. #metoo
    Nobel Prize in Literature Will Not Be Awarded Due to Sex Scandal It’s the first time since World War II they’ve postponed giving the award.
    By Sarah Spellings
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