Books

  1. read the room
    Kristen Bell’s Children’s Book Perilously Close to Declaring Purple Lives MatterTitled The World Needs More Purple People.
    By Rebecca Alter
  2. a long talk
    ‘If You Can Perform Whiteness, Then What Does It Mean to Be White?’Brit Bennett on her propulsive new novel, The Vanishing Half, set in a mythical town solely inhabited by light-skinned black people.
    By Lila Shapiro
  3. books
    Zadie Smith to Release New Essay Collection About Life During LockdownIntimations, out July 28, was written in the “early months” of the pandemic.
    By Zoe Haylock
  4. jk rowling
    Warner Bros. Responds To J.K. Rowling’s Shocking Commitment to Being Transphobic“The events in the last several weeks have firmed our resolve as a company to confront difficult societal issues.”
    By Chris Murphy
  5. we regret to inform you
    J.K. Rowling Explains Her Anti-Trans Comments With More Anti-Trans CommentsShe wrote a 3,670-word blog post. Like half her books, it’s simply too long.
    By Justin Curto
  7. books
    Harper Acquires New Novel From Deadspin Founder Will LeitchLucky will be Leitch’s fifth book.
    By Zoe Haylock
  8. trans rights
    Daniel Radcliffe Responds to J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Tweets“Just as a human being, I feel compelled to say something at this moment.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  9. the industry
    Over 1,000 Publishing Workers Strike to Protest Industry RacismThey’re tweeting under the hashtags #PubWorkers4BlackLives and #PubWorkers4Justice.
    By Justin Curto
  10. the industry
    Roxane Gay and Other Authors Reveal Salary Disparities With #PublishingPaidMeUrban fantasy novelist L.L. McKinney started the call to action.
    By Devon Ivie
  11. close reads
    What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?It is unclear whether each book supplies a portion of the holistic racial puzzle or are intended as revelatory islands in and of themselves.
    By Lauren Michele Jackson
  12. the longest lives
    What I’ve Learned So FarLessons from artists and thinkers.
    As told to Jackson McHenry, Helen Shaw, and Amelia Schonbek
  13. excerpt
    ‘Would You Be My Kiss‑in Partner?’During a protest at Harvard, Josh Oppenheimer’s kiss shook me into the awareness that I was not quite a man.
    By Meredith Talusan
  14. accio
    J.K. Rowling Fact-Checks Some ‘Utter Nonsense’ About Harry Potter’s Origins“I was thinking of putting a section on my website about all the alleged inspirations and birthplaces of Potter.”
    By Devon Ivie
  15. vulture recommends
    Want Is the Summer Book I Couldn’t Put DownIt’s a defining novel of our age of left-behind families.
    By Hillary Kelly
  16. summer 2020
    29 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This SummerThey will shake you out of your stasis.
    By Hillary Kelly
  17. fashion du jour
    9 Upsetting Anna Wintour Stories in André Leon Talley’s Memoir“Simple human kindness. No, she is not capable.”
    By Devon Ivie
  18. encounter
    The Psychic Will (Virtually) See You NowLaura Day joins the growing ranks of healers delivering their services via teleconferencing.
    By Lila Shapiro
  19. encounter
    André Leon Talley Would Still Take Anna Wintour’s CallFrom his living room in White Plains, the fashion writer on his new memoir and old friends.
    By E. Alex Jung
  20. profile
    In Case of Emergency, Read Olivia LaingFrom The Lonely City to Funny Weather, the author writes to find a path forward through pain.
    By Hillary Kelly
  21. book review
    What’s the Deal With Eels?A new book examines what we know about the mysterious creature, and a lot more that we do not.
    By Molly Young
  22. great adaptations
    AMC Is Sucking the Rights From Anne Rice’s Vampire NovelsEverything in The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
    By Devon Ivie
  23. books
    Former Drama Teacher Chasten Buttigieg to Release MemoirI Have Something to Tell You comes out on September 1.
    By Justin Curto
  24. books
    Simon & Schuster President and CEO Carolyn Reidy Dies at 71“As a publisher and a leader, Carolyn pushed us to stretch to do just that little bit more; to do our best and then some for our authors.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  25. roll clip!
    Netflix Announces Elena Ferrante Adaptation Before We Can Even Read the BookThere’s already a teaser.
    By Devon Ivie
  26. spoiler city
    What to Expect in Outlander Season 6, According to Diana Gabaldon’s BooksIt’s getting tougher to predict exactly what’s coming for Claire, Jamie, and Fraser’s Ridge, but one thing’s for sure: There will be tears.
    By Maggie Fremont
  27. read like the wind
    A Children’s Bible and 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadThere are two types of sad people in the world — the books here are for both of them.
    By Molly Young
  28. story time
    Let Daniel Radcliffe Read the First Chapter of Harry Potter to YouWe demand a celebrity reading of “My Immortal” next.
    By Rebecca Alter
  29. awards
    Colson Whitehead Wins Second Pulitzer Prize, A Strange Loop Wins for DramaPlus, New York’s own Justin Davidson is a finalist in criticism.
    By Justin Curto
  30. sexy vampires
    A New Twilight Book Is Coming to Feast on Your NostalgiaThis time, Edward tells the story.
    By Devon Ivie
  31. keeping up with the royals
    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Reportedly Agree to Tell-All BiographyWhat royal rules?
    By Devon Ivie
  32. a long talk
    Not So Normal AnymorePaul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones are the heart of Normal People’s sexy, angsty romance. And now they’re famous.
    By Rachel Handler
  33. close reads
    I Read Woody Allen’s Memoir So You Don’t Have ToFirst off, there are two short passages that will forever change the way I think about him. I cannot unread, unhear, unknow them. I wish I could.
    By Mark Harris
  34. books
    ‘Mondays With Michelle Obama’ Joins the Children’s Story Time Livestream GameBetween Michelle and Dolly, that’s two whole hours of entertainment for your kid per week.
    By Halle Kiefer
  35. adaptations
    Middlesex Series to Be Directed by 50 Shades of Grey’s Sam Taylor-JohnsonThe book by Jeffrey Eugenides won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  36. book du jour
    We’ll Take ‘Alex Trebek’s New Memoir Will Make Us Sob’ for $1,600The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life will be released in July.
    By Devon Ivie
  37. books
    It’s Garry Shandling’s Show Was Almost a Terrible NBC SitcomAnd other things we learned from comedy writer Alan Zweibel’s new book.
    By Brian Boone
  38. one grand books
    Samantha Irby’s 10 Favorite BooksGone Girl, The Outsider, Made for Love, and more.
    By Samantha Irby
  39. read like the wind
    Nine Moons and 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadToday, we feast on sizzling memoirs, Hollywood novels, and deranged hippie misadventures.
    By Molly Young
  40. read a book
    Join Samantha Irby for a Live Reading of Wow, No Thank You.Followed by a chat with Angelica Jade Bastién, tonight on Vulture’s Instagram Live.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  41. true crime
    The Last Podcast on the Left Hosts Break Down the Art of True-Crime Comedy“We defang them, we stare in their faces, we laugh at how pathetic they are.”
    By Jenni Miller
  42. coronavirus
    You’re Going to Have to Wait a Little Longer for Elena Ferrante’s New BookThe Lying Life of Adults has been pushed to September.
    By Devon Ivie
  43. 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
  44. books
    Everything We Learned From Woody Allen’s Controversial MemoirFrom his affair with Soon-Yi to the molestation allegation.
    By Hunter Harris
  45. trailer mix
    Watch a Very Sex-Forward Trailer for the Normal People TV ShowPremiering on Hulu on April 29.
    By Jackson McHenry
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. reading lists
    The Books Our Political Writers Are Reaching for Right NowA reading list for finding some perspective in a crisis.
    By The Editors
  49. all by myself
    9 Great Books With Lonely ProtagonistsInvestigating the wild terrain of the isolated mind.
    By Hillary Kelly
  50. 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
  51. 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
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