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Mar. 23, 2022
The Best Sex Julia May Jonas Has Ever Read “Knausgaard is always looking at the people around him as objects. It feels like someone who’s not fully comfortable writing about sex.”
As told to Lila Shapiro
trailer mix
Mar. 22, 2022
There’s a New Taylor Swift Song (Yay!) in This Trailer (Boo!) Where the Crawdads Sing … along to her new song, “Carolina.”
By Rebecca Alter
workin’ 9 to 5
Mar. 21, 2022
Dolly Parton to Star in Film Adaptation of Album-Book-Podcast Run, Rose, Run If you can EGOT for a single project, she’s sure trying.
By Justin Curto
book excerpt
Mar. 21, 2022
‘I Did Have This Feeling That It Would Work Out Somehow’ Bowen Yang discusses his parents and SNL in Judd Apatow’s new book of interviews.
By Judd Apatow
spring preview
Mar. 18, 2022
20 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Spring With new releases from Akwaeke Emezi, Geoff Dyer, Margo Jefferson, Hernan Diaz, and more.
books
Mar. 18, 2022
Anthony Veasna So Wins Posthumous National Book Critics Circle Award Other recipients include Honoreé Fanonne Jeffers, Diane Seuss, and Rebecca Donners.
By Ashley Shannon Wu
vulture lists
Mar. 18, 2022
8 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month Dolly Parton, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Polley, and more.
By Marshall Heyman
books
Mar. 15, 2022
The Best Sex Melissa Febos Has Ever Read “Eileen Myles invented this thing to compare sex to. It is absolutely working, but it is breaking a lot of the rules.”
As told to Maddie Crum
books
Mar. 10, 2022
The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist Is Literary Heaven Mieko Kawakami’s tale of teen angst accompanies Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob, Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny, and more.
By Ashley Shannon Wu
vulture lists
Mar. 4, 2022
Batman for Real (and Aspiring) Nerds The new Batman film takes us back to his early years. Here are the comics that are actually worth reading — in chronological order.
By Seth Mnookin
enough reboots to fill the nile
Feb. 23, 2022
Hey, Kenneth Branagh, Leave Miss Marple Alone! Why not go for Tommy and Tuppence instead?
By Bethy Squires
vulture lists
Feb. 18, 2022
8 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month Toni Morrison, Chuck Klosterman, Chrishell Stause, and more.
By Marshall Heyman
book bans
Feb. 16, 2022
Publishing CEO Donates $500,000 to Fight Book Bans Many of the banned books are part of the Penguin Random House imprint.
By Ashley Shannon Wu
encounter
Feb. 14, 2022
Art Spiegelman Loses His Glasses As the latest fight over Maus erupts, its artist-creator searches for his spectacles.
By Abraham Riesman
book excerpt
Feb. 9, 2022
When Max Met Furiosa: An Oral History of Casting Mad Max: Fury Road The yearslong process of finding the right leads for George Miller’s Oscar winner involved dozens of future stars — and just as many what-ifs.
By Kyle Buchanan
a long talk
Feb. 8, 2022
Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This In his book The Nineties, he tried to write about the decade as it felt at the time — at least to some people.
By David Wallace-Wells