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Vulture on Books
Art Spiegelman Loses His Glasses
As the latest fight over Maus erupts, its artist-creator searches for his eyeglasses.
«“Losing your glasses,” Spiegelman says. “It’s like …” He pauses. “You’re going to lose everything. That’s how it works.”»
The Velveteen Rabbit Was Always More Than a Children’s Book
Written for her daughter, Margery Williams Bianco’s hundred-year-old story is a memorial to what we all lose in exchange for adulthood.
Vulture on Corporate Communications
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Literary critic Molly Young offers a witty dissection of how today’s businesses – especially start-ups, creative firms and online companies – spawn nonsense corporate slanguage and self-deluded gibberish. Young’s keen ear and sharp tongue will provide relief and amusement to anyone who’s endured a meeting replete with nonsense terminology, such as “parallel-pathing, growth hacking, upleveling” and “blitzscaling.”
Vulture on Fiction
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.
One Neat Trick to Writing Great Mystery Plots
The critic and author of the Charles Lenox series advises doing what Michelangelo did, but backward.
Vulture on Gaming
The 100 Hardest Video-Game Levels of All Time
Dizzying shooters, agonizing puzzles, and water stages (ugh) that raise the question: Continue?
The Never-ending Storyteller
Daniel Benmergui knew his innovative indie-game concept could work. He didn’t know it’d take him 15 years of development hell to put it out.
Vulture on Habits
Bed Habits
One insomniac’s journey into sleep research to understand what screens before bed are doing to our brains.
Vulture on Podcasting
This Could Be a Rough Year for the Podcast Industry
We spoke to dozens of insiders and creators about 2023 trends, gripes, and potential pitfalls.
We’re Entering the Era of Big Podcasting
2019 has ushered in a new, more moneyed phase for the medium.
Vulture on Self Control
My Appetites
Jerry Saltz on eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer and pandemics.
Vulture on TV
Reality Check
The boom — or glut — in television documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects.
Bad Projection Is Ruining the Movie Theater Experience
Multiplexes are failing at their most basic function: delivering a bright, sharp image.
Vulture on Writing
Unraveling the Most Legendary Writers’ Room Story Ever
“Who Jackie?” has been retold in comedy circles for nearly 30 years — much to the surprise of the Roseanne writer who said it.
Bob Gottlieb vs. Bob Caro
The 91-year-old book editor would like his 87-year-old star writer to finish his latest book.
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The Making of Silent Bruce
Bruce Willis was a fast-talking lead who became a man-of-few-words star. Which made his mental decline that much harder to notice.
‘I Don’t Know How My Show Is Doing!’
Streamers like Netflix run on data, but showrunners say they’re not seeing it. For some, that’s a recipe for serious anxiety.
Podcasting Is Just Radio Now
It’s been ages since the last blockbuster narrative show. What does that mean for the medium as an art form?
Tom Cruise’s Last Stand
Thirty-six years after the original, Top Gun: Maverick eulogizes the actor’s entire career, and an America that may not exist anymore.
Wolfgang Tillmans Changed What Photos Look Like
A career retrospective becomes a cathedral of the mundane.
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