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The Making (and Unmaking) of Paul’s Boutique

The Beastie Boys made a masterpiece. And then they were foiled by Donny Osmond. By Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz

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7 New Paperbacks You Should Read This October

Bighearted romance, dystopian drama, and more. By Maris Kreizman

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That Time Julia Roberts Taught Phoebe Robinson How to Swim

In this week’s Good One podcast, Phoebe Robinson reads from her new book Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay and explains her writing process. By Jesse David Fox

one grand books 10/19/2018

Liz Phair’s 10 Favorite BooksJ.D. Salinger, Toni Morrison, and more.

By Liz Phair
adaptations 10/17/2018

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret to Be Adapted by Edge of Seventeen DirectorAnd just like that, you’re 13 again.

By Jackson McHenry
book excerpt 10/17/2018

How Chris Gethard Learned to Stop Trying to Fit In and Just Do His Own ThingAn excerpt from Gethard’s new book Lose Well.

By Chris Gethard
book excerpt 10/17/2018

The Making (and Unmaking) of Paul’s BoutiqueThe Beastie Boys made a masterpiece. And then they were foiled by Donny Osmond.

By Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
man booker prize 10/16/2018

Anna Burns’s Milkman Wins the Man Booker Prize for FictionThe novel is set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

By Jackson McHenry
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must reads 10/16/2018

7 New Paperbacks You Should Read This OctoberBighearted romance, dystopian drama, and more.

By Maris Kreizman
book excerpt 10/16/2018

Lin-Manuel Miranda Wrote a Poem Just for You“I wanted to wish you good morning.”

By Lin-Manuel Miranda
women and power 10/16/2018

To Binky Urban, ‘Power’ Is a Male Word“Being dominant is not anything I care about. What I care about is being effective, being respected,” says the most powerful woman in book publishing.

By Lisa Chase
must reads 10/15/2018

10 Great Horror Books for WimpsTitles you won’t have to have to hide in the freezer.

By Mallory O'Meara
good one podcast 10/15/2018

That Time Julia Roberts Taught Phoebe Robinson How to SwimIn this week’s Good One podcast, Phoebe Robinson reads from her new book Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay and explains her writing process.

By Jesse David Fox
books 10/15/2018

Tana French on The Witch Elm, #MeToo, and the Divisive Ending of In the Woods“Some people hate it and I don’t blame them for being annoyed with it.”

By Lila Shapiro
book excerpt 10/15/2018

Ellie Kemper Is a Rooster and a WarriorAn excerpt all about SoulCycle from Kemper’s new book My Squirrel Days.

By Ellie Kemper
reconsideration 10/12/2018

Orlando Is the Virginia Woolf Novel We Need Right NowOn its 90th anniversary, a recognition of how Woolf’s parodic, fantastical faux-biography made it possible to imagine a world beyond gender.

By Joanna Scutts
book excerpt 10/11/2018

How Phoebe Robinson Hustled Her Way Out of $65,000 in DebtShe calls it the “seven‑year‑debt saga.”

By Phoebe Robinson
one grand books 10/10/2018

Kathy Bates’s 10 Favorite BooksHarper Lee, Tennessee Williams, and more.

By Kathy Bates
national book awards 10/10/2018

Here Are Your 2018 National Book Awards FinalistsPoet Terrance Hayes gets a second nod.

By Zoe Haylock
lit parade 10/10/2018

Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk Breaks Through the Trump Book NoiseIn a stormy season of Trump exposés, Lewis’s explainer of government (dys)function earns the highest praise.

By Hillary Kelly
book excerpt 10/9/2018

Eric Idle on the Enduring, Powerful Legacy of the Song He Wrote As a JokeHow Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” took on a life of its own.

By Eric Idle
vulture lists 10/9/2018

Your Definitive Guide to All of Haruki Murakami’s BooksThe great, the good, the not so good, and those we’ll just pretend never happened.

By Hillary Kelly
new york comic con 2018 10/7/2018

The Good Omens TV Show Was Terry Pratchett’s Last RequestNeil Gaiman says he did this one for his friend.

By Maya Phillips
new yorker festival 10/7/2018

Maggie Gyllenhaal Details Her Adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost DaughterShe doesn’t plan to act in the film.

By Trupti Rami
new york comic con 2018 10/5/2018

The Best Philip K. Dick Adaptations, According to His Daughter Isa Dick HackettIncluding Blade Runner, of course.

By Vulture Editors
must reads 10/5/2018

13 Great Horror Books Written by WomenNovels, short stories, and chills.

By Mallory O'Meara
adaptations 10/4/2018

James Baldwin Kept a List of His Dream Cast for a Beale Street MovieWith potential directors, too.

By Hunter Harris
one grand books 10/4/2018

Deborah Eisenberg’s 10 Favorite BooksJane Bowles, Isaac Babel, and more.

By Deborah Eisenberg
habitats 10/4/2018

How Novelist John Wray Made His Brooklyn Brownstone Into a Writers’ ClubhouseThis Park Slope townhouse is a cross between an artists’ colony, a co-working space, and a frat house.

By Ruth Franklin
legends 10/3/2018

Dracul Sets Out to Prove That Count Dracula Really LivedThe new book attempts to reconstruct the missing hundred pages of the original manuscript.

By Lila Shapiro
must reads 10/3/2018

8 New Books You Should Read This OctoberGothic novels, big-deal biographies, and more.

By Boris Kachka
books 10/3/2018

Mystery Writer Tana French’s Tips for Crafting a Red HerringHow the author of In the Woods and The Witch Elm leads the reader down the wrong trail.

By Tana French as told to Lila Shapiro
memoirs 10/2/2018

Monty Python Almost Never Aired and Other Stories From Eric Idle’s MemoirThis is filled with great stories.

By Brian Boone
q&a 10/2/2018

‘Phenomenal Levels of Denial and Arrogance’: Heidi Waleson on City Opera’s End“It was loony.”

By Justin Davidson
book excerpt 10/2/2018

How Hiring a Superstar Wrecked New York City OperaThe board thought Gerard Mortier would save the company. Instead, its promises to him doomed it.

By Heidi Waleson
book review 10/2/2018

War, Drugs, and Other Extremes in the Post-Post-9/11 NovelTwo recent novels, Ohio and Waiting for Eden, try to keep pace with our state of permanent crisis.

By Christian Lorentzen
last night on late night 9/29/2018

Stephen Colbert Made a Children’s Book Out of Trump’s Post-Hurricane CommentsAll proceeds will go to organizations that help hurricane victims in the Carolinas.

By Halle Kiefer
reconsideration 9/28/2018

We Regret to Inform You That Little Women Is Not a Feminist NovelOn the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, critics are lining up to praise its pioneering feminism. They’re wrong.

By Hillary Kelly
podcasts 9/27/2018

My Favorite Murder Hosts Share Sneak Peek of Upcoming MemoirRead the first excerpt from Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark’s Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered.

By Hillary Nelson and Devon Sherer
one grand books 9/26/2018

Rose Byrne’s 10 Favorite BooksAnaïs Nin, Judy Blume, and more.

By Rose Byrne
lit parade 9/26/2018

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Struggle Is Over, But the Critical Debate Lives OnThe question undergirding nearly every review of the now-complete series is whether he regrets that his quest for truth upended his entire family.

By Hillary Kelly
book excerpt 9/24/2018

The Object Joss Whedon Will Never Let GoAs seen in an excerpt from the new book What We Keep.

By Bill Shapiro
backstories 9/21/2018

The Stories Behind Haruki Murakami’s Most Iconic Book CoversA sense of “inimitable, cozy alienation” hangs over each of Kidd’s book covers — a description that also applies to Murakami’s best novels.

By Lila Shapiro
books 9/21/2018

The Big-Money, Big-Deal Books of the FallAll the season’s probable (or wannabe) best sellers, from Michelle Obama, Michael Lewis, Sally Field, David Blight, and (sorry) Tucker Carlson.

By Boris Kachka
closings 9/21/2018

Café Loup, and Yet More Downtown History, Might Be Gone for Good“It was a refuge from all the assholes who made every other place in New York unbearable.”

By Steve Garbarino
vulture recommends 9/21/2018

The Art Books Jerry Saltz Is Loving This FallBeautiful volumes about often under-celebrated artists, from groundbreaking Delacroix to Hilma af Klint, pioneer of Abstraction.

By Jerry Saltz
one grand books 9/20/2018

Uzo Aduba’s 10 Favorite BooksDr. Seuss, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more.

By Uzo Aduba
audiobooks 9/20/2018

The Best-Ever Recordings From the Prehistory of AudiobooksThe Voices of the Dead Brought to Life Digitally, from Kesey to Nabokov to Tolstoy and Maybe Walt Whitman

By Katherine Barner
vulture recommends 9/20/2018

The Best Audiobooks of 2018 (So Far)Courtroom thrillers, quirky imports, and Billy Crudup.

By Jenni Laidman
audiobooks 9/20/2018

The Best-selling Audiobooks of 2018 (So Far)Here’s what everyone’s listening to right now.

By Jenni Laidman
audiobooks 9/20/2018

Kristen Bell Reading Fear, and 9 More Dream Audiobook PairingsJust imagine Gossip Girl reading about Trump’s White House.

By Hunter Harris
previews 9/20/2018

The Grub Street Fall Cookbook PreviewThe recipes we can’t wait to make from this year’s most exciting new cookbooks.

By Nikita Richardson
reconsideration 9/19/2018

25 Years Ago The Virgin Suicides Kicked Off Our Obsession With Teenage Tragedy.Jeffrey Eugenides’s haunting, faux-nostalgic 1993 novel changed the way we consume adolescence in pop culture.

By Hillary Kelly