‘I Want the Bloody Hands Recorded’ Machaela Cavanaugh’s tear-and-rage-filled filibuster of a Nebraska anti-trans bill she knew would probably pass anyway.
The Spine Collector For five years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? A trap? Or a complete waste of time?
the spine collector
Mar. 24, 2023
The Fabulist in the Woods In Northampton with Kelly Link and her community of like-minded writers.
An Evening With Parapraxis, a New Magazine for the New Freud Crowd A just-launched publication revels in a psychoanalysis renaissance.
The ‘Shitty Media Men’ List Goes to Court Moira Donegan created the list to address a moral injustice. Stephen Elliott says he’s suing her for the same reason.
Nathan Fielder Is Out of His Mind (and Inside Yours) The comedian is known for his often hilarious, sometimes mean, always uncomfortable stunts. The Rehearsal is his grandest experiment yet.
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.”
The Talented Mr. Bernardini Is this man the notorious Spine Collector?
The Undoing of Joss Whedon The Buffy creator, once an icon of Hollywood feminism, is now an outcast accused of misogyny. How did he get here?
How to Write a Twist Ending Zakiya Dalila Harris knew The Other Black Girl would have a brutal finale — if she could just figure out how to get there.
the industry
Apr. 22, 2021
the group portrait
Feb. 23, 2021
Book Publishing’s New Power Club A wave of hires is set to pick up where the reckoning left off.
The Best Sex Melissa Broder Has Ever Read “If you can get off to one story more than ten times, that’s a win.”
Torrey Peters Goes There The author’s debut novel, Detransition, Baby , wades into two of the most vulnerable questions for trans women.
The Implosion of American Dirt How one of publishing’s most hyped books became its biggest horror story — and still ended up a best seller.
friday night movie club
Dec. 9, 2020
It’s Christmas, So Let’s Watch Eyes Wide Shut for the 101st Time After a miserable year, the holiday season is upon us again and we’re calibrating our seasonal movie selections accordingly.
The Sci-Fi Author Reimagining Indigenous History As Rebecca Roanhorse’s novels have earned praise in the literary world, they’ve sparked controversy among some Native scholars.
The Best Sex Emily M. Danforth Has Ever Read The Miseducation of Cameron Post author on the ineffable pleasures of Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt .
Delusions of Whiteness In Rumaan Alam’s new thriller, a white family staying at a Hamptons Airbnb is startled when the Black owners knock on the door.
fall preview
Sept. 1, 2020
Piranesi Will Wreck YouThe novel establishes Susanna Clarke as one of our greatest living writers.
fall preview
Aug. 31, 2020
19 Books We’re Excited to Read This Fall Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults , Emma Cline’s Daddy , and Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind , and more.
Carlin Romano Keeps His Seat on the National Book Critics Circle Board Two-thirds were needed to remove Romano, but in the end, just 62 percent, or 104 members, voted for his removal.
The Best Sex Raven Leilani Has Ever Read The author of Luster on the ecstatic, violent joy of Susan Choi’s My Education.
anonymous in hollywood
July 9, 2020
backstories
June 16, 2020
The National Book Critics Circle Has Imploded More than half of the board has resigned in a series of events one member described as “bizarre and bloody in an end-of-a-Tarantino-movie way.”
a long talk
June 12, 2020
‘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.
The Lines We Cross for Art Josephine Decker on Shirley , her years working with Joe Swanberg in the mumblecore scene, and the boundaries between director and actor.
The Psychic Will (Virtually) See You Now Laura Day joins the growing ranks of healers delivering their services via teleconferencing.
friday night movie club
Apr. 22, 2020
You Can’t Say American Psycho Didn’t Warn Us Patrick Bateman told us in the starkest terms that we were living in a world of murderous greed and indifference.
in conversation
Apr. 22, 2020
Mary Harron on the Bizarre Legacy of American Psycho 20 years on, the director discusses almost losing the movie, fighting to cast Christian Bale, and why its original reception reminds her of Joker ’s.
He’s Lost Seven Parishioners, and 20 Are Sick In his 40 years of preaching, the Reverend Johnnie Green has never felt this helpless.
The Man Who Knew Too Much The plot of Lawrence Wright’s new novel was always prescient, but it arrived much sooner than he thought it would.
coronavirus
Mar. 17, 2020
As N.Y.’s Indie Bookstores Close Their Doors, They Search for Community Online “People are just trying to maintain a connection to the world until it opens up again.”
My Dark Vanessa Was an Oprah’s Book Club Pick. Then It Was Abruptly Dropped.After controversies surrounding American Dirt and My Dark Vanessa , Oprah’s team decided they would not be moving forward with the book.
The Best Sex I Ever Read Was By the Famously ‘Dick-Centric’ Henry Miller Mary Gaitskill on one of the few passages where the author praises someone’s vagina.
My Dark Vanessa Is Not a Love StoryAt 16, Kate Elizabeth Russell saw her book about a student’s affair with a teacher as a romance. She sees it differently now.
backstories
Feb. 13, 2020
How Nic Cage and a Ouija Board Brought Richard Stanley Back to Set Twenty-five years after the spectacular failure of The Island of Dr. Moreau , the reclusive director is still dreaming of human-animal hybrids.
scene report
Feb. 1, 2020
‘We Stand With Alexandra Waterbury’: Inside a West Side Story Protest About two dozen people showed up on Friday to voice their disapproval over the casting of Amar Ramasar.
the industry
Jan. 23, 2020
Reagan Arthur Succeeds Sonny Mehta As Publisher of Knopf Arthur is universally admired in publishing circles, and like Mehta, she has an eye for both fiction and nonfiction, commercial and highbrow.
coming attractions
Jan. 10, 2020
32 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2020 The return of Elena Ferrante and a Me Too narrative unlike any you’ve read before.
Love, Actually: How You Season Two Made Joe’s Perfect Match The showrunner of Netflix’s demented stalker romance breaks down the many secrets of Love Quinn.
Kate Moennig Tried to Rewatch The L Word Before Doing Generation Q. She Failed. “It’s hard to watch yourself with that hair and those outfits and see you clunking around trying to figure out how to act.”
literary greats
Nov. 22, 2019
Celebrating Toni Morrison With Thousands of Her Readers More than 3,000 people came to St. John the Divine to hear eulogies from Oprah, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others.
Famous Authors Drag Student in Surreal YA Twitter Controversy By Saturday afternoon, many of the authors involved had apologized.
the politics of fiction
Oct. 30, 2019
Who Gave You the Right to Tell That Story? Ten authors on the most divisive question in fiction, and the times they wrote outside their own identities.
as told tos
Oct. 18, 2019
How to Write Hercule Poirot in 2019 Author Sophie Hannah on continuing Agatha Christie’s classic series — and why the detective definitely shouldn’t have a Twitter account.
Andrea Long Chu Wants More The 26-year-old critic argues for a new understanding of gender and desire in her debut book, Females.
true crime
Sept. 16, 2019
How Unbelievable Tells a True Crime Story Without ‘Rape Porn’ The showrunner of Netflix’s new drama turned a Pulitzer-winning investigation into propulsive and essential TV.
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