Oof, What a Mess
Just to get this out of the way: Anyone inclined to dislike Tony Hinchcliffe’s new Netflix special Man of the People on principle is not going to change…
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The Judy Blume Book That Scandalized a Nation
Living with Tom in New Mexico, Judy had not found the freedom, sexual or otherwise, that she had been after when she left John; to the contrary, she…
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Perhaps a Carnegie Hall archivist has recorded how often an evening-long work of brand-new chamber music, performed in the big auditorium, has prompted a standing ovation, but I…
Read more Emily Dickinson, Set to New Music, Kills at Carnegie Hall‘Oh My God, They’re Ruining the Show’
From the day it premiered, Twin Peaks had a problem. Audiences wanted to know who killed Laura Palmer; David Lynch and Mark Frost weren’t interested in telling them…
Read more ‘Oh My God, They’re Ruining the Show’The Sexiest Goos of Wuthering Heights
Well, obviously. Photo: Warner Bros. When you have a crush, anything and everything can remind you of them. Such is the case in Wuthering Heights with Cathy (Margot…
Read more The Sexiest Goos of Wuthering HeightsDisney’s New CEO Already Has Parks Fans Worried
An emphasis on microtransactions and questionable cost cutting are among their concerns. Photo: Handout/Getty Images You can exhale now, Bob Iger. This week, Disney named Josh D’Amaro as…
Read more Disney’s New CEO Already Has Parks Fans WorriedEvery Single Thing Happening at the 2026 Grammys
It’s once again Music’s Biggest Night, where heavy hitters vie for the most esteemed qualifiers to stick onto album packaging. There’s a lot for five-time host Trevor Noah…
Read more Every Single Thing Happening at the 2026 GrammysDid Success Spoil Noah Baumbach?
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Focus Features, Netflix, Paramount, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sony Pictures, Everett Collection In Noah Baumbach’s 2007 movie Margot at the Wedding, Jack Black’s character, a would-be…
Read more Did Success Spoil Noah Baumbach?The Invite Is Occasionally Funny, But That’s About It
Photo: The Invite/All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be…
Read more The Invite Is Occasionally Funny, But That’s About ItI Miss When the Golden Globes Were Deranged
Keeping pace with Hollywood’s awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. Aaron Taylor Johnson winning a Globe for Nocturnal Animals in a year when Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali…
Read more I Miss When the Golden Globes Were DerangedEvery Single Thing Happening at the 2026 Golden Globes
How many awards will One Battle After Another win?As the season’s overwhelming Oscar favorite, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film looks likely to take Best Picture – Musical or Comedy as well…
Read more Every Single Thing Happening at the 2026 Golden GlobesThe Eyes Wide Shut Conspiracy
Photo-Illustration: Dewey Saunders; source photos: Warner Bros. Pictures; Getty Images. When Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut was released in the summer of 1999, the world shrugged. Critics didn’t…
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture Every month, Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani recommend new fiction and nonfiction books. You should read as many of them as possible. See their picks from…
Read more 6 New Books You Should Read This DecemberWhose Time Is It Anyway?
Oscar Futures Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. Paul Thomas Anderson, Michael B. Jordan, and Ariana Grande might be chasing the same…
Read more Whose Time Is It Anyway?What Mikey Day Watches (and Reads) With His Son
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan, Will Heath/NBC), Everett Collection (Geffen Pictures, Paramount, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros.), Toei Animation, Supercell, Roblox, MrBeast via YouTube Ask a…
Read more What Mikey Day Watches (and Reads) With His SonInitiative Has 18 Charisma, 19 Dexterity, 20 Strength
The windows are down, the sun is a kaleidoscope through the reddening leaves, and I’m listening to Saves the Day’s Stay What You Are on the car CD-player,…
Read more Initiative Has 18 Charisma, 19 Dexterity, 20 StrengthDeath to the Penultimate Flashback Episode
Even when done well, the penultimate flashback episode has become such an endemic storytelling strategy in TV dramas that it should be abandoned on principle. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos:…
Read more Death to the Penultimate Flashback EpisodeDawn of a Dull Day: Tom Hanks in This World of Tomorrow
Tom Hanks in This World of Tomorrow at the Shed. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed Whatever is happening at the Shed right now, it’s not really a…
Read more Dawn of a Dull Day: Tom Hanks in This World of TomorrowHow Stupid Was This Year?
Photo-Illustration: New York Magazine I can remember my life before and after I saw the interview. In one of several promo radio chats for The Life of a…
Read more How Stupid Was This Year?All Her Fault Is a Misandrist Masterpiece
The rich white mommy drama sets its sights on the patriarchy in Sarah Snook’s first live-action TV series since Succession. Photo: PEACOCK The men in All Her Fault…
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