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The Julien Baker Reading Guide to Her New Album Little Oblivions

 How East of Eden, R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries, and critical theory connect to the singer-songwriter’s stunning third album. By Justin Curto
book excerpt

When the Last Call Killer Came to Five Oaks

 The serial killer who targeted gay men in New York, in the piano bars where they sought refuge from the world. By Elon Green
the group portrait

Book Publishing’s New Power Club

 A wave of hires is set to pick up where the reckoning left off. By Lila Shapiro
  1. back to school
    The Julien Baker Reading Guide to Her New Album Little OblivionsHow East of Eden, R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries, and critical theory connect to the singer-songwriter’s stunning third album.
    By Justin Curto
  2. the art of ending things
    Why the End of Atonement Is a Triumph for Unreliable NarratorsWhen Ian McEwan’s book came out, the final twist infuriated many readers. Twenty years later, it’s a classic of the form.
    By Hillary Kelly
  3. respect the classics
    Paul McCartney Wrote a 900-Page Memoir About His LyricsIt’ll cover his Beatles, Wings, and solo songs.
    By Devon Ivie
  4. book excerpt
    When the Last Call Killer Came to Five OaksThe serial killer who targeted gay men in New York, in the piano bars where they sought refuge from the world.
    By Elon Green
  5. books
    Hillary Clinton Retiring to Mystery Books, Co-Writing With Louise PennyState of Terror is out October 12.
    By Justin Curto
  7. the group portrait
    Book Publishing’s New Power ClubA wave of hires is set to pick up where the reckoning left off.
    By Lila Shapiro
  8. casting call
    Mila Kunis Is the Luckiest Girl Alive at NetflixIn an upcoming adaptation of Jessica Knoll’s 2015 novel.
    By Halle Kiefer
  9. conversations
    Native Comedy Is Happening EverywhereThree Native comedians on being overlooked in the industry and why that’s — sort of — starting to change.
    By Megh Wright
  10. can a dog be twins?
    Patricia Lockwood’s Infinite ScrollThe Twitter-famous poet’s first novel, No One Is Talking About This, moves between the body in space and the mind online.
    By Joanne McNeil
  11. adaptations
    Netflix Plots Redwall Series and Film Written by Over the Garden Wall CreatorThe platform acquired all 22 books in Brian Jacques’s beloved series.
    By Zoe Haylock
  12. close reads
    Lupin Pulls an Adaptation Heist on Its AudienceAs Netflix’s latest international hit cleverly riffs on its titular public-domain character, it simultaneously teaches viewers what it’s riffing on.
    By Rafael Motamayor
  13. perfect pairing
    Your Next Romance Read, Based on Your Favorite Rom-comPair your bookshelf with your Netflix queue.
    By Carly Lane
  14. read like the wind
    No One Is Talking About This and 8 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My Head“Finally,” you will think to yourself, flipping these pages. “Someone is taking me somewhere fun!”
    By Molly Young
  15. book excerpt
    ‘I Miss the Simple Things’Quarantine poems from Catherine Cohen.
    By Catherine Cohen
  16. books
    The Best Sex Melissa Broder Has Ever Read“If you can get off to one story more than ten times, that’s a win.”
    As told to Lila Shapiro
  17. adaptations
    So, Who Is Zachary Levi Playing in the Live-Action Harold and the Purple Crayon?The actor joins Sony’s adaptation of the beloved children’s book as … the crayon, maybe?
    By Halle Kiefer
  18. book review
    100 Boyfriends Is a Taxonomy of DesireBrontez Purnell’s new book roams the edges of queer romance.
    By E. Alex Jung
  19. crime
    Suspect in Kim Kardashian’s 2016 Paris Robbery Reportedly Writes Book About It… Quoi?
    By Halle Kiefer
  20. entanglements
    Brontez Purnell, Author of 100 Boyfriends, on Conjuring the Ghost an ExThe daddy of the Oakland DIY scene has a new novel about the afterlives of intimacy.
    By Saam Niami
  21. memoirs
    7 Uniquely Cicely Tyson Stories From Her Memoir, Just As I AmA life well-lived.
    By Zoe Haylock
  22. one grand books
    Avni Doshi’s 10 Favorite BooksSwimming Home, On Beauty, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and more.
    By Avni Doshi
  23. celebrity memoirs
    Ted Cruz Nemesis to Publish MemoirSeth Rogen’s first book will be out May 11.
    By Rebecca Alter
  24. vulture sports
    Amanda Gorman Will Grace Us With a Poem at Super Bowl LVThe inaugural poet has been tapped to write and recite a poem honoring pandemic heroes.
    By Zoe Haylock
  25. next stop west egg
    The Great Gatsby Is Getting a ‘More Diverse, Inclusive’ Television AdaptationA.k.a. the Bridgerton treatment.
    By Devon Ivie
  26. books
    Cecily Strong Promises You This Will All Be Over Soon With New MemoirThe Saturday Night Live star’s first book is due in bookstores August 10.
    By Halle Kiefer
  27. books
    Details of Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land Finally Reach Our TimelineThe follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning All the Light We Cannot See.
    By Halle Kiefer
  28. book excerpt
    Mike Nichols’s HeartburnAfter directing Nora Ephron’s divorce movie, his own breakup — and breakdown — turned out to be around the corner.
    By Mark Harris
  29. anti-racism
    Netflix to Adapt Three of Author Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism BooksSpecifically Stamped From the Beginning, STAMPED: Racism, Antiracism and You, and Antiracist Baby.
    By Halle Kiefer
  30. spoilers
    What to Expect From Bridgerton Season Two, Based on the NovelsIt’s (probably) Anthony’s time to shine.
    By Maggie Fremont
  31. one grand books
    Samantha Power’s 10 Favorite BooksInvisible Man, The Long Loneliness, Hiroshima, and more.
    By Samantha Power
  32. last night on late night
    Sorry to the Aunties Who Weren’t Invited to Riz Ahmed’s Secret WeddingThe Sound of Metal star married writer Fatima Farheen Mirza, he told Jimmy Fallon.
    By Justin Curto
  33. book excerpt
    ‘There Are People Who Think, Black People Just Aren’t Good at This’Here’s just how racist improv theaters can be, according to Amber Ruffin.
    By Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
  34. trailer mix
    Watch the Swoon-worthy To All the Boys: Always and Forever TrailerThe third and final installment is out February 12.
    By Zoe Haylock
  35. books
    Call Your Book Club, Sally Rooney’s Third Novel Is ComingBeautiful World, Where Are You drops September 7, 2021.
    By Rebecca Alter
  36. cherk
    Watch the Teaser for Cherry, the Tom Holland Movie With the Weird PosterCHERK PLEASE!
    By Rebecca Alter
  37. read like the wind
    My Grandmother’s Braid and 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadIncluding a comic feel-bad novel for anyone who needs “hair of the dog” relief from their existential hangover.
    By Molly Young
  38. 2021 preview
    46 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021With new novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, and more.
  39. profile
    Torrey Peters Goes ThereThe author’s debut novel, Detransition, Baby, wades into two of the most vulnerable questions for trans women.
    By Lila Shapiro
  40. legacies
    Eric Jerome Dickey Wrote Books We Couldn’t Wait to Grow IntoThe books were in the homes of my friends; their mothers left them unattended on nightstands. We held them close knowing they were for adults.
    By Hanif Abdurraqib
  41. obits
    Eric Jerome Dickey, New York Times Best-selling Author, Dead at 59The Sister, Sister author died Sunday after “a long illness.”
    By Zoe Haylock
  42. books
    The Implosion of American DirtHow one of publishing’s most hyped books became its biggest horror story — and still ended up a best seller.
    By Lila Shapiro
  43. public domain
    The Great Gatsby and All Your Favorite Works from 1925 Enter the Public DomainNot to mention books by Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley…
    By Halle Kiefer
  44. vulture lists
    10 Romance Novels to Read After Binging BridgertonRakish dukes abound.
    By Carly Lane
  45. close reads
    The Villainous White Mother Was All Over the Domestic Novel This YearThese stories came in a year that thrust white liberal parents into a harsh light.
    By Kelly Coyne
  46. meet the ton
    Who’s Who in Bridgerton: A Books-to-Series Character GuideNo one should enter London high society without knowing who matters and what they’re up to. Allow us to introduce you to the ton.
    By Maggie Fremont
  47. books
    Who Did J.K. Rowling Become?Deciphering the most beloved, most reviled children’s-book author in history.
    By Molly Fischer
  48. gift guide
    32 Books (That Aren’t Political Memoirs) to Gift for the HolidaysIncluding comics, romance, young-adult fiction, and cookbooks.
    By Gabrielle Sanchez and Emily Palmer Heller
  49. celebrity shopping
    What Author Neil Gaiman Can’t Live Without“It’s a beautiful book about fathers and sons and birds.”
    By Neil Gaiman as told to Hilary Reid
  50. vulture quiz
    Is This Quote From Barack Obama’s Memoir or Cazzie David’s?Which one of them tried to impress an ethereal bisexual?
    By Rebecca Alter
  51. booked and busy
    Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Forms Publishing Imprint With Random HouseSeriously, Blue Ivy Carter is begging y’all to pick up a book.
    By Zoe Haylock
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