It’s Time for The Handmaid’s Tale to Let June Die June’s shrapnel-laden plot armor has sustained an unparalleled Elisabeth Moss performance, but it undermines the point of the character.
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Risk ManagementJune may be on the verge of heroics, but are they worth the cost?
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: The Pen Is MightierAfter spinning its wheels for too long, Handmaid ’s finally turns June into the warrior woman she’s promised to be so many times.
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Little Miss MuffinAmid a crackdown in Gilead, June’s relationship with the Lawrences reaches a horrific turning point.
Big Little Lies Finale Recap: A Little RespectIn its final moments, Big Little Lies morphs into the procedural drama it never wanted to be.
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Who Won Game of Thrones (the Pop Culture Phenomenon)? The fantasy series was gold for nearly every person, place, and broadcaster involved. But who came out on top?
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Do No HarmA claustrophobic pseudo-bottle episode pushes June even further down the path of madness — but to what end?
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Que Sera SeraWhat does it mean if our heroine has expanded her hatred and vengeance to include even those who don’t stand directly against her?
What Is Scarier Than Motherhood? In Helen Phillips’s The Need , a parent’s nightmares take the form of a home intruder — who looks exactly like her.
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Keen On an AdventureJune’s prowl around Hannah’s fortresslike school is the perfect metaphor for her connection to her daughter at this point.
Big Little Lies Recap: ForeplayEveryone in Monterey, it seems, is about to snap.
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Capitol LossJune and the Waterfords’ Washington excursion is equal parts moving spectacle and frustrating plot contrivance.
Big Little Lies Recap: The Best MonsterMary Louise solidifies her place as one of TV’s most complicated, ruthless villains.
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Baby MineAn episode with none of the physical cruelty this series has become known for manages to tap an even deeper vein of emotional treachery.
Big Little Lies Recap: We Are FamilyAs skeletons make their way out of the women’s respective closets, fortunes, both literal and figurative, start to tilt and shift.
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: A Real VoiceA well-earned and long-time-coming alliance bears immediate fruit for June, but can it last?
Big Little Lies Season Premiere Recap: Let Second Grade BeginStrap in for another season of car-seat conversations, sandy footprints, and guttural female screams (this time from Queen Meryl herself!).
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: The Trolley ProblemJune’s quest to obtain some high-power allies deepens our understanding of Serena and complicates our feelings about Commander Lawrence.
The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Martha, May I?When an opportunity lands in June’s lap to ingratiate herself with Mayday’s ragtag group of schemers, she jumps at it.
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June 5, 2019
The Books We Loved in 2019 Bowlaway , American Spy , and other standout books from the year.
The Handmaid’s Tale Season Premiere Recap: Mother NatureFollowing her baby daughter’s escape to Canada, June displays a new willingness to embrace the other mothers who care for her children.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s New Novel Is All Sex, No Drive City of Girls fails in its mission to make a liberated 1940s glamour girl compelling.
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May 23, 2019
12 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer Colson Whitehead, Jia Tolentino, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, and more.
Game of Thrones Series Finale Recap: BrokenMany died playing this game of thrones, but no one really won.
Game of Thrones Recap: It Tolls for TheeA massively uneven, occasionally brilliant episode drags down not one but two queens.
Kit Harington Got Drenched With Wine During That Game of Thrones Party Scene “Everyone was trying to throw wine at Kit, so he had a horrible day,” says Kristofer Hivju.
Game of Thrones Recap: Worst Laid PlansDid everyone suffer a collective knock on the head and forget what happened the last time a fleet of Targaryen soldiers sailed down south?
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May 1, 2019
This Year’s Call Me by Your Name Is French: More Meta But Just As Hot Philippe Besson’s Lie With Me is reminiscent of André Aciman’s novel of young gay love, but its style is utterly unique (also no sexy peaches).
Game of Thrones Star Bella Ramsey Was Psyched to Fight a Giant Zombie“I was stabbing, with a bit of sloppy dragon glass, a green polystyrene ball.”
Game of Thrones Recap: Not TodayThe biggest battle of the series weaves intricate patterns around every character we know and love before giving us the deus ex machina we deserve.
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Apr. 26, 2019
GOT ’s Gwendoline Christie Understands If You’re Worried About Brienne Now“Brienne has one of the few pure souls in the world of Game of Thrones . She’s one of the few truly good characters.”
all in the family
Apr. 22, 2019
It’s Pretty Creepy to Root for Game of Thrones Incest, Right? Targaryen or not, Jon didn’t grow up hoping and praying that he might someday sleep with his aunt.
Game of Thrones Recap: And Now Our Watch Has BegunThe long night before the Long Night begins, complete with too much booze, some unexpected singing, and a glorious act of redemption.
vulture lists
Apr. 18, 2019
The 10 Best Game of Thrones Duos Forget the dragons: We’re here for the buddy comedies.
Game of Thrones Season Premiere Recap: Family ReunionWe return to where this whole saga began in a homecoming episode packed with a bunch of reunions, a couple of dragons, and one big family secret.
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Apr. 12, 2019
Wait, Who’s Still Actually Alive on Game of Thrones ? Once scattered across a dozen cities and two continents, the sprawling cast has condensed into a few groups. These are their last known whereabouts.
vulture lists
Apr. 11, 2019
25 Questions That Game of Thrones Needs to Answer in Its Final Season How will Jon and Dany react to their surprise incest? Who will land the Iron Throne? What eyeliner brand does Euron use?
Susan Choi on Her Mind-Bending #MeToo Novel How rage and the Access Hollywood tape inspired this spring’s most inventive and polarizing novel.
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Mar. 21, 2019
Spring Books Preview: Fiction We Can’t Wait to Read by Sally Rooney and Others Subtle dystopias, #MeToo meditations, a mysterious vanishing, and just Normal People .
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Mar. 19, 2019
Let’s Celebrate the Stinky Heroines of Repulsive Realist Fiction The New Me and other novels fight vlogger perfectionism with a refreshing dose of the gross.
The London Bookstore That Became the Face of a Movement A.N. Devers opened the Second Shelf to change how we talk about (and pay for) rare books by women.
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Feb. 8, 2019
The Book Publishing Scandals of Early February: Holy Hell Jill Abramson, Dan “tumor” Mallory, Bezos’s “picks,” YA troubles — and it’s only the 8th.
How It Feels to Publish Your Wife’s Memoir About Dying “Who was I to sit there and kill her dream?” asks the widower of Julie Yip-Williams, author of The Unwinding of the Miracle .
I Tried to Be Virginia Woolf. A Brilliant New Memoir Comes Closer. Katharine Smyth’s All the Lives We Ever Lived is both a literary tribute and a powerful debut of its own.
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Jan. 24, 2019
Crime-Solving Cats and Cozy Mysteries: A Publishing Juggernaut Meow If It’s Murder is just the tip of a very large, very furry iceberg.
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Jan. 17, 2019
‘We Are Living in Evil’: Discussing Friday Black ’s Horrific Truths The Vulture Spoiler Book Club on the shocking, hilarious, deeply moral stories of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
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