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  1. best of 2024
    The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)A sizzling, propulsive new novel from Miranda July, the introspective follow-up to There There, and a debut novel with a killer hook.
    By Vulture Editors
  2. vulture lists
    2024 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading ListAnother chapter for Deadpool and a riveting Laura Lippman crime novel make the leap to streaming.
    By Emily Maskell
  3. book review
    Taffy Brodesser-Akner Overcooks ItA wealthy Jewish family gets the Succession treatment in the writer’s hectic second novel.
    By Emma Alpern
  4. close read
    Against ‘Women’s Writing’Rachel Cusk’s gender fundamentalism fully surfaces in her latest novel, Parade.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  5. paws up lil zazzters
    HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, Daniel Radcliffe, 2001.
    HBO Is Making a Decade-Long Harry Potter SeriesHere’s which Muggles will try to make magic happen as showrunner and director.
    By Rebecca Alter
  6. the library is open
    Put Down the Juneteenth Ice Cream and Pick Up These 18 BooksA reading list for America’s latest greeting-card category.
    By Jordan Taliha McDonald
  7. masquerade or michaela?
    What to Expect in Bridgerton Season 4, Based on the BooksWe know there will be a happily-ever-after, but whose?
    By Maggie Fremont
  8. fire and blood
    Who’s Who in Westeros: A House of the Dragon Character GuideKeeping up with the Targaryens.
    By Sean T. Collins
  9. vulture lists
    15 Stephen King Books That Should Be Adapted NextCreepy amusement parks, killer cars, time travel, and more worthy King plots.
    By Brian Tallerico
  10. future movies
    Appetite for More Hunger Games Will Be MetThe movie based on the barely announced book will be released before the second Wicked movie.
    By Jason P. Frank
  11. jedi texts
    Why Star Wars’s The Acolyte Is Set an Even Longer Time AgoWelcome to the High Republic.
    By Jack Francis
  12. stop the presses
    Griffin Dunne’s Hollywood-Irish Family Had Its Grudges“We were clinically crazy,” says the son of Dominick Dunne and the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. “Like, really crazy.”
    By Shawn McCreesh
  13. book review
    The Crisis of the Realist NovelJoseph O’Neill’s Godwin displays all the anxieties of a form stuck in place.
    By Ryu Spaeth
  14. summer preview 2024
    22 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This SummerBooks that will transport you from the beach to a road trip with messy friends or a Round Table with Arthur’s knights.
  15. vulture lists
    The 18 Uncanniest Comics to Read After Watching X-Men ’97To me, my pull list.
    By Kambole Campbell
  16. encounter
    Lord Maurice Saatchi’s Big Book of OrgasmsThe legendary British adman wants to blow your mind.
    By Carl Swanson
  17. vulture lists
    25 Essential Stephen King Short StoriesThe best King stories are full of heart, horror, and humanity, each riffing on the eternal question: what if?
    By Neil McRobert
  18. profile
    Emil Ferris Still Believes in MonstersThe graphic novelist’s debut, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, was a hit. Seven years later—after a contentious lawsuit—the sequel is finally coming.
    By Mark Yarm
  19. vulture lists
    15 Romance Novels to Read After Binging BridgertonRakish dukes abound.
    By Carly Lane
  20. obit
    No One Wrote About Sex Like Alice MunroIn Munro’s stories, women blow it all on desire.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  21. rip
    VICTORIA 2013-10-11 Canadian author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Foto: Axel Oberg / XP / TT / Kod 7139
    Nobel Laureate Alice Munro Dies at 92The renowned Canadian author wrote over 160 short stories.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  22. books
    PEN America Writers Threw Their Own Party“Some of the people who have withdrawn are, for example, debut novelists. It’s quite a big sacrifice to turn it down — and yet they have.”
    By Emma Alpern
  23. book review
    Claire Messud Writes Novels for a Different CenturyThis Strange Eventful History is the kind of generation-spanning family story that doesn’t really get published anymore. Does it still work?
    By Emma Alpern
  24. book review
    Miranda July’s New Novel Will Ignite Your Group ChatsAll Fours is a hot, weird, and utterly captivating book about a middle-aged woman’s sexual reawakening.
    By Christine Smallwood
  25. endings
    The Idea of You Author on the Movie’s New EndingRobinne Lee says “The book is a book, and the movie is a movie.”
    By Bethy Squires
  26. coming soon
    2023 TIME100 Gala
    The Colleen Hoover Cinematic Universe Is ExpandingVerity will be the second entry in the CHCU.
    By Bethy Squires
  27. rip
    Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017
    Prolific Author Paul Auster Dead at 77He was known for works including The New York Trilogy and 4321.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  28. celebrity memoirs
    "The Prison Confessions Of Gypsy Rose Blanchard" Red Carpet Event
    It’s Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Time to Stand on BusinessShe’s releasing a new memoir, My Time to Stand, in January 2025.
    By Zoe Guy
  29. celebrity memoirs
    Sacha Baron Cohen Allegations Redacted in U.K. Edition of Rebel Wilson Memoir“For legal reasons,” publisher HarperCollins says.
    By Zoe Guy
  30. vulture lists
    10 Books (and One Video Game) You Are Fated to Consume After ShōgunThis should tide you over until a season-two announcement.
    By Bethy Squires
  31. babs appétit
    Everything Barbra Streisand Eats in Her 970-Page MemoirFrom peas with sugar to burgers with Brando to guggle-muggle.
    By Rachel Handler and Matthew Schneier
  32. pen awards 2024
    The PEN America Literary Awards Are Canceled. The Writers Know Why.“I know that no amount of prestige or prize money is worth the lifelong shame of knowing you were on the wrong side of a genocide.”
    By Zoe Guy
  33. taylor (tavi’s version)
    Tavi Gevinson Has More to Say About Taylor SwiftThe writer and actress answers every question we have about her fan-fic Taylor Swift zine: “To quote the daughter from Proof, ‘I wrote it.’”
    By Jasmine Vojdani
  34. pen awards 2024
    PEN Awards Facing Disaster After Many Withdraw in Solidarity With PalestineNine of ten Jean Stein Book Award nominees have rejected the $75,000 prize.
    By Zoe Guy
  35. close reads
    Is Tom Ripley Gay?The question has challenged every adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s book, including the latest — and best — from Steven Zaillian.
    By Mark Harris
  36. book review
    Salman Rushdie Did Not Want to Write This BookIn Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, the many incarnations of Rushdie are at war with one another.
    By Sanjena Sathian
  37. hurt/comfort
    2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Arrivals
    The Hottest New Release on BookTok Is (Checks Notes) 1984?Andrew Scott tortures Andrew Garfield, for all the recovering tumblr girlies.
    By Bethy Squires
  38. the work of art
    How’d You Make That?Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough.
    By Adam Moss
  39. celebrity memoirs
    Rebel Wilson Memoir Has More Than Just Sacha Baron Cohen DramaLike her one-sided beef with Adele.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  40. vulture lists
    Romantasy Series to Tide You Over Until the Next “ACOTAR”We likely have a while to wait for the next Sarah J. Maas, but there are plenty of other sexy fantasy romances to dig into before then.
    By Alyssa Davis
  41. pre-spoilers
    What’s Next for 3 Body Problem?Liu Cixin’s book trilogy and season one’s hints comprise a map of where a potential second season may be headed.
    By Zing Tsjeng
  42. vulture lists
    11 Books That Scratch the 3 Body ItchAfter watching Netflix’s adaptation, check out some more hard sci-fi and Chinese speculative fiction.
    By Neil McRobert
  43. adaptations
    3 Body Problem’s Biggest DeparturesHow a notoriously unfilmable book trilogy got whittled down to a season of television while leaving the door open for more.
    By Zing Tsjeng
  44. encounter
    The Mr. Rogers of Columbus, OhioThe poet Hanif Abdurraqib is as idiosyncratic as his unclassifiable new book.
    By Giri Nathan
  45. books
    Percival Everett Can’t Be Pinned DownHis masterful new novel, James, cements his status as one of our most idiosyncratic writers.
    By James Yeh
  46. books
    It’s the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35The books follow protagonists who want to become artists in a crumbling economy, inherit second sight in grief, and deal with our grave present.
    By Zoe Guy
  47. adaptation by charlie kaufman
    Let Quinta Brunson Adapt The Guest, You BuffoonsAnd whatever else she wants.
    By Jason P. Frank
  48. reading is what?
    LINGO
    RuPaul’s New Bookstore Dragged for Selling Controversial BooksAllstora has decided to remove the books (after previously saying it wouldn’t).
    By Jennifer Zhan
  49. the truth is out there
    All Your Burning Questions About 3 Body Problem, AnsweredWho are these aliens and what do they want?
    By Jackson McHenry
  50. the index
    RuPaul’s Guide to Pop Ru-ltureDrag Show is full of pop-culture Ru-isms. Ru’s memoir, The House of Hidden Meanings, acts as an index of references for fans and future contestants.
    By Jason P. Frank
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