Tag: books
10 Books Added to the Public Domain Worth Reading
On January 1, just as you were absolutely 100 percent adding “read more classic literature” to your list of New Year’s resolutions, a pile of great work became available in the public domain. What that means, essentially, is that more…
Conspiracy Fiction Once Helped Us Tell the Truth. Now It’s a Weapon for Liars.
I think we may have come to a fork in the road where conspiracies are concerned. For many years, conspiracy fiction and conspiracy theories traveled happily together, interacting and keeping each other in check. I grew up in the golde…
Publishers Weekly Has Purchased the Millions
For almost 16 years, online literary magazine the Millions served as an independent resource for book lovers everywhere. But today it announced that while the magazine’s coverage of books, arts, and culture would continue, it will now…
2018: When Asian-American Art Came Into Its Own
Let’s dispense with any niceties or equivocation: 2018 has been a year of Asian-American excellence. Crazy Rich Asians smashed (admittedly low) box-office expectations and led the way in a very good year for Asian-American pop culture…
Take a Wild Guess What Barack Obama’s Favorite Book of 2018 Was
Cancel all other year-end lists because the only one that matters has arrived. Barack Obama has shared his annual roundups of the best of his year in entertainment — obviously superior to all Vulture rankings — from books to music to …
15 Fantasy Adaptations We’re Excited to See on TV Soon
With Game of Thrones and its monstrous ratings preparing to bow out in the middle of 2019, it’s reasonable to assume that every network executive is currently sitting in their office, laptop out, and Googling “oh my ***, please give m…
Hear Vulture Writers Discuss the Best Pop Culture of 2018 for Two Glorious Hours
Two-thousand-and-eighteen is just about in the books (we made it!) and so are the countless memorable entertainment moments it delivered. Hopefully, you’ve been keeping up with our Best of 2018 series for the full — and sometimes obse…
Publishers Weekly Picks Trump Moneymakers As Persons of the Year
As Vulture reported earlier this month, the staff of Publishers Weekly had an especially contentious debate this year about whom to anoint their annual Person of the Year. They had, in short, the same difficulty many earthlings have r…
I Lived Like Reese Witherspoon for a Week and All I Got Was This Ham
Reese Witherspoon has always terrified me, and I mean that entirely as a compliment. She’s read basically every single book that’s been published in the new millennium, options 78 percent of them, produces 400 TV shows and movies per …
William Finnegan’s 10 Favorite Books
Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is New Yorker journalist and author William Finnegan’s list.
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