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How Composer John Williams Saved Home Alone

 The Star Wars composer’s last-minute score gave gravitas to the now-classic comedy. By Tim Greiving
fall preview 2025

10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall

 From Thomas Pynchon’s return to a few long-awaited memoirs. By Tolly Wright and Tomi Obaro
must reads

8 New Books You Should Read This September

 A Patricia Lockwood novel, an unsparing memoir from Arundhati Roy, and self-described “nepito baby” Zosia Mamet’s essay collection. By Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani
  1. it was the ’80s
    Charlie Sheen’s Memoir Is Characteristically SleazyAll the stories about paid sex, tiger’s blood, and everything in between while he glosses over the most glaring allegations of wrongdoing.
    By Zoe Guy
  2. cooking the books
    The Worst Part of Tiny Bookshop Is Also the Most AccurateA new cozy management game is surprisingly close to the retail experience — for better and worse.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  3. chapters
    Axl Rose Stole My CoatZosia Mamet on her wayward years as a New York club kid.
    By Zosia Mamet
  4. best of 2025
    The Best Books of 2025 (So Far)Including memoirs about sex — both having lots and going without.
    By Vulture Editors
  5. spellcasting
    Harry Potter and the Next Generation of British CelebritiesWe have our first returning cast member from the original films.
    By Rebecca Alter
  7. vulture lists
    68 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2025 Reading ListSeptember is one book after another when it comes to adaptations.
    By Emily Maskell
  8. book review
    A Rebel Writer’s First RevoltA memoir by Arundhati Roy chronicles her tumultuous relationship with her mother.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  9. tv specials
    Emma Heming Willis Says Bruce Willis ‘Is Still Very Much Here’She sat down with Diane Sawyer to discuss her husband’s life with frontotemporal dementia.
    By Bethy Squires
  10. today’s controversy
    Sally Rooney Is Only Guilty of Emotional TerrorismThe Irish novelist faces outlandish accusations of terrorism after writing in support of banned protest group Palestine Action.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  11. vulture lists
    6 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This MonthThere’s some things you need to remember about Gwyneth Paltrow.
    By Marshall Heyman
  12. celebrity memoirs
    Kid Cudi Says His Relationship With Cassie ‘Bruised’ Diddy’s Ego“And that also made me feel good, because I was the underdog in the industry at that time,” he writes in his new memoir.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  13. extremely online
    Keith McNally Will Probably Post About ThisThe voracious Instagram poster has become a documentarian of New York in the 2020s — whether he likes it or not.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  14. book review
    Zero ToleranceFive years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?
    By Andrea Long Chu
  15. must reads
    8 New Books You Should Read This AugustA new James Baldwin biography, a Chloé Caldwell memoir about trying to get pregnant, and a romance that might keep you up at night.
    By Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani
  16. celebrity authors
    Kamala Harris Is Booking ItHer memoir 107 Days will document her short-lived presidential run.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  17. books
    Fraught Female Friendship, But Make It QueerStephanie Wambugu’s Lonely Crowds explores the ambiguous space between friendship and romantic love.
    By Jasmine Vojdani
  18. books
    The Juiciest, Goopiest Reveals From the Gwyneth Paltrow BiographyRemember when Winona Ryder and Gwyneth Paltrow were roommates?
    By Tom Smyth
  19. get gooped
    Gwyneth Paltrow Was Never NormalAmy Odell, author of Gwyneth: The Biography, on Paltrow’s relationship to Brad Pitt, Weinstein, Goop, and elitism.
    By Jason P. Frank
  20. syllabus
    Decades of Weird Fantastic Four Comics Paved Their ‘First Steps’Solve everything — from Galactus to Dinosaur Doom — with this reading list.
    By Kambole Campbell
  21. books
    George Saunders Is Publishing a New Novel Early Next YearVigil is about an oil-company CEO who’s traveling to the afterlife and answering for his misdeeds.
    By Emma Alpern
  22. memoirs
    Let’s Check In on Scheana Shay for OnceBefore Vanderpump Rules and before Brock cheated on her when she was pregnant, Scheana Shay was just a girl partying at Les Deux on a Wednesday night.
    By Bethy Squires
  23. chapters
    Ozzy Osbourne Always Had No FilterThe Osbournes changed reality TV thanks to that “swearing bloke on the telly.”
    By Ozzy Osbourne
    Introduction By Matthew Schnipper
  24. beach read book club
    ‘You Need to Look Within, Babe’Our book club discusses the first section of Rob Franklin’s Great Black Hope.
  25. by the book
    How Ballard Mashes Up the Bosch UniverseThe first season of the Maggie Q–starring spinoff lands in a very different place than the books on which it’s based.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  26. vulture lists
    19 of Our Favorite Books of the Year Are Really Cheap Right NowAnd so is one Kindle.
    By Vulture Editors
  27. a long talk
    Parvati Shallow Is More Than a VillainIn her new memoir, Nice Girls Don’t Win, the reality-TV legend unpacks her turbulent history — and how she became a survivor.
    By Laura Bradley
  28. chapters
    ‘Are You Worried You’ll Look More Plus-Size?’America’s Next Top Model tried to give me an embarrassing new look, but I had never felt more like myself.
    By Sarah Hartshorne
  29. close read
    Substack Is Where Writers Go to Be WeirdIt has become the premier destination for literary types’ unpublished musings.
    By Emma Alpern
  30. must reads
    7 New Books You Should Read This JulyAn uplifting spin on the divorce novel, an argument for a forgotten natural resource against warming, a layered story about queer youth in Lagos.
    By Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani
  31. announcements
    Read Rob Franklin’s Great Black Hope With New York’s Summer Book ClubJoin a group of our writers and editors for a weekly discussion newsletter, starting next month.
    By The Editors
  32. coming soon
    The Sun Hasn’t Set on the Sunrise on the Reaping CastGlenn Close will play Druscilla Sickle opposite Billy Porter as her husband.
    By Bethy Squires
  33. book review
    Cheating On Your PoliticsIn her new book, Spent, Alison Bechdel once again gives us people whose lofty ideas about society exceed their ability, or willingness, to change it.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  34. power
    E. Jean Carroll Has Written a Secret Book — And Learned to ShootA year and a half after defeating Trump for the second time, Carroll is showing a side of herself kept hidden in the trials.
    By Jessica Bennett
  35. extremely online
    How I’m Fixing My Broken Attention SpanThe infinite scroll has ruined our ability to focus. Is wasting more time the key to getting it back?
    By Rebecca Jennings
  36. book review
    A Worthy Novel About These Times™Jess Walter’s So Far Gone is a madcap road novel that aptly captures the absurdity of the past ten years.
    By Chris Stanton
  37. remembrance
    How I’ll Remember Edmund WhiteBooks and boys and big dinners at home.
    By Christopher Bollen
  38. must reads
    8 New Books You Should Read This JuneA family epic from a National Book Award winner, a gonzo account of Britney Spears’s unraveling, and an inner monologue of an obsessive snob.
    By Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani
  39. book review
    Susan Choi Is Still Outlandishly TalentedA father’s disappearance, and the black hole of uncertainty surrounding it, are the subject of her prickly new novel.
    By Sam Worley
  40. summer preview 2025
    28 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This SummerWhether you want to make sense of reality or escape it — through climate fiction, searing memoirs, and tight thrillers.
    By Isle McElroy
  41. chapters
    Twilight Was Just What an Oversexualized Generation NeededIn its depictions of teenage desire, the series took a cue from chaste high-school movies of long ago.
    By Bruce Handy
  42. up next
    ACOTAR Book 6: Everything Sarah J. Maas Has Said So FarSarah J. Maas confirmed she’s been working on the next installment of A Court of Thorns and Roses.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  43. book review
    The Romance of Being UnreadableIn his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is finally ready to talk.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  44. and the winner is…
    Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Finally Wins His First Pulitzer for PurposeAnd New York theater critic Sara Holdren is a finalist in Criticism.
    By Jason P. Frank
  45. graphic design is my passion
    What Kind of Ugly Should a Book Cover Be?The new Europa all-in-one edition of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet is the wrong kind of garish.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  46. must reads
    8 New Books You Should Read This MayA grumpy bookshop employee’s musings, an investigation of parenthood in the digital age, and an essential history of OpenAI.
    By Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani
  47. a long talk
    ‘I’m Looking for Someone to Fight, Not Someone to Run Over With My Car’Andrea Long Chu on her new book, Authority; the so-called crisis of criticism; and how she chooses her subjects.
    By Arielle Angel
  48. the uptown girl
    Christie Brinkley Gave Billy Joel One Too Many ChancesIn her new memoir, the model recounts her ex-husband’s drunken outbursts, including a chaise longue thrown through patio doors.
    By Devon Ivie
  49. shameless
    ‘It’s Cynical, Manipulative, and Cruel’Booksellers are not happy about the tech giant’s decision to hold its big annual book sale during Independent Bookstore Day.
    By Emma Alpern
  50. coming soon
    Belly Faces the Battle of the BrothersOne final decision for the last season of The Summer I Turned Pretty.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  51. azkaban for all
    The Harry Potter TV Show Casting Is Getting MessyBook fans are spamming HBO’s socials begging the channel to recast Snape.
    By Fran Hoepfner
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