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  1. paws up lil zazzters
    HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, Daniel Radcliffe, 2001.
    HBO Is Making a Decade-Long Harry Potter SeriesThe streamer stands by J.K. Rowling’s “right to express her personal views.”
  2. scene report
    The Party Goes Late at the 75th National Book AwardsSipping prosecco amid the black-tie crowd at the packed publishing-world event in lower Manhattan.
  3. books
    Percival Everett Can’t Be Pinned DownHis masterful new novel, James, cements his status as one of our most idiosyncratic writers.
  4. the pluck of the irish
    The Best Irish Novels From the Past 15 YearsWhich works by Sally Rooney, Colm Toibin, and Claire Keegan among others, reign supreme?
  5. mystery and intrigue
    Anne Hathaway Is Back in BookTokShe will star in an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Rebecca-esque Verity.
  6. reading is fundamental
    Vulture’s 2024 Books Gift GuideA lack of celebrity memoirs doesn’t mean a lack of gossip.
  7. if i could turn back time
    14 Stunning Stories From Cher’s (First) MemoirFrom Warren Beatty asking her out when she was a teenager to her “chicken joke” with Carol Burnett.
  8. chapters
    I Thought the Sun Rose and Set on His Sicilian AssSonny Bono was one of the most charming — and possessive — men I’d ever met.
  9. book review
    Haruki Murakami Has Lost the SauceTwo new works read more like fan fiction set in the extended Murakami universe than the thrillingly strange novels he’s famous for.
  10. books
    Samantha Harvey Wins Booker Prize for Space-Station Novel OrbitalIt’s the second-shortest book to be awarded the prize.
  11. books
    Literary AssassinRevealing the secret histories of Joan Didion, Donna Tartt, and Eve Babitz.
  12. obits
    Writer Dorothy Allison Publishes 'Retour A Cayro'
    Bastard Out of Carolina Author Dorothy Allison Dies at 75She was a voice for poor, rural queer people across the country.
  13. best of 2024
    The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)A highly anticipated sequel, a brilliant debut, and nonfiction to linger on.
  14. read me read me read me
    Robert Smith Is a Big Ol’ Book NerdTracking the not-so-hidden literary references on the Cure’s new album.
  15. vulture lists
    2024 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading ListA National Book Award winner becomes a Hulu series and Dune gets a prequel on Max.
  16. vulture lists
    10 Books With Grotesquerie VibesWhether you’re into creepy Catholic-coded camp or just here for Travis Kelce.
  17. anonymous in publishing
    Who’s Really Writing Celebrity Novels?The writers and agents working behind the scenes tell us how it actually works.
  18. what happened here?
    What It’s Like to Be a NovelistSometimes the books just don’t work.
  19. tributes
    Gary Indiana’s Exuberant VenomThe late critic and novelist documented the seedy vanities and sorrows of American life with bitchiness and, sometimes, sympathy.
  20. celebrity memoir
    ‘Please Tell Me, What’s Wrong With Me?’In his new memoir, Sonny Boy, Al Pacino looks back on his “moon shot” of a life in Hollywood — and a few acute regrets.
  21. sexual abuse
    Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley Asks Ex-Manager to Testify ‘Under Oath’ Over AllegationsGreig Nori has denied claims he groomed and abused Whibley.
  22. required reading
    Professor Taylor Swift Assigns More Reading to The Tortured Poets DepartmentIt’s an Eras Tour book.
  23. presley industrial complex
    From Here to the Great Unknown Is a Presley-Family Therapy SessionLisa Marie’s new memoir, co-authored by her daughter Riley Keough, lets the family grieve on its own terms.
  24. politics
    In Praise of Bad ReadersIn a time of war, there is a danger in surveying the world as if it were a novel.
  25. vulture lists
    A Beginner’s Guide to Junji Ito14 stories to go down the horror-manga auteur’s spiral.
  26. memoirs
    Everything Lisa Marie Presley Shared in Her Memoir So FarIncluding memories of grieving both Elvis and her son, plus claims that Michael Jackson was a virgin when they started dating.
  27. chapters
    Enjoy J. Smith-Cameron’s Martini-Themed Crossword Puzzle ‘With a Twist’An excerpt from A24’s new book of puzzles, 99 TV Crosswords.
  28. book review
    Alan Hollinghurst Tries to AtoneThe writer has tended to fetishize marginal POC characters in his novels. In Our Evenings, he puts a biracial man at the center for the first time.
  29. best of 2024
    The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)Fiction that feels like a primal scream.
  30. explainer
    Kim Porter's Birthday Party Hosted By Sean "P. Diddy" Combs
    What’s Going on With That Fake Kim Porter Memoir?After the book shot to No. 1 on Amazon’s best-seller ranking the week of Diddy’s indictment, Amazon has now removed it from its site.
  31. splendid
    Nicholas Sparks’s Splenda Chicken Salad Sounds FowlGuy dinner.
  32. book review
    Has Olga Tokarczuk Been Struck by the Nobel Curse?Her latest novel, The Empusium, is more focused on dictating a salient political message than pushing the bounds of art.
  33. close read
    Hot CommodityIn Sally Rooney’s novels, love is always being bought, sold, or reduced to tropes. But this is also what makes it real.
  34. it wasn’t paradise
    All the Semi-Salacious Non-Scandals in The Third Gilmore GirlDid anyone think a memoir by Kelly Bishop would be anything but classy?
  35. vulture lists
    Forgotten YA Adaptations, Ranked by Cultural ImpactWill Netflix’s Uglies leave a bigger mark than these 15 Twilight–Harry Potter–Hunger Games rip-offs?
  36. booked and busy
    95th Annual Academy Awards - Red Carpet
    The National Book Foundation’s 2024 Fiction LonglistFeaturing three debut novels, two short-story collections, and one Miranda July.
  37. happy birthday
    The Twilight Saga’s Renesmee Cullen Is Old Enough to VoteThree questions for the Cullens as the 2024 election approaches.
  38. beach read book club
    ‘Too Much Hugging and Learning’Our book club discusses the ending of Long Island Compromise.
  39. remembrance
    Noel Parmentel Jr., the Man Joan Didion Left BehindWhen she said good-bye to all that.
  40. book review
    Is Rejection the First Great Incel Novel?Tony Tulathimutte’s second book is a hilariously brutal story collection about elder millennials grappling with their sexual failures.
  41. objection!
    Rare treasures in the Leopoldina Library
    The Internet Archive Loses Copyright Suit With HachetteThe website’s National Emergency Library program was found to be in violation of copyright law.
  42. beach read book club
    ‘Real Shiv Vibes’Our book club discusses the Jenny section of Long Island Compromise.
  43. why?
    We Read the New Twilight Book So You Don’t Have ToAn annotated reading of Midnight Sun.
  44. fall preview 2024
    Garth Greenwell’s Grand RomanceThe author explores the tender side of long-term partnership amid a health crisis in his best novel yet.
  45. fall preview 2024
    27 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This FallNew reads that capture the three seasons of autumn: back-to-school, spooky, and election.
  46. beach read book club
    ‘He’s Not Off by Miles, He’s Off by Crucial Inches’Our book club discusses the Nathan section in Long Island Compromise.
  47. book review
    Danzy Senna Can’t Stop Thinking in Black and WhiteColored Television, the author’s latest comic novel about a mixed-race Black woman, holds diminishing returns.
  48. beach read book club
    ‘Mandy Patinkin — Icon, Legend’Our book club discusses the Beamer section in ‘Long Island Compromise.’
  49. beach read book club
    ‘Watching How Long the Rot Can Happen’Our book club discusses the introduction to ‘Long Island Compromise.’
  50. mad woman
    What Is Men Have Called Her Crazy Really About?Anna Marie Tendler wants to tell her story — but the patriarchy keeps getting in the way.
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