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  1. the year of the nepo baby
    An All But Definitive Guide to the Hollywood Nepo-VerseActors, singers, directors who just happen to be the children of actors, singers, directors.
    By Nate Jones
  2. profile
    The Spectacular Life of Octavia E. ButlerThe story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.
    By E. Alex Jung
  3. performance review
    What Was Brangelina?The couple were always known for their image-making savvy. Now, as their divorce reenters the press cycle, we’re reminded of who’s better at it.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  4. first person
    The Voice of New York Is DrillIt’s the most captivating sound the city has heard in decades — and also the most misunderstood. Here, 19 NY drill artists set the record straight.
    As told to Camille Squires
  5. in conversation
    Larry Wilmore Knows No BoundsHe’s kept the golden age of Black TV comedy alive for three decades. He’ll make any network eat its words.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  6. profile
    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.
    By Lila Shapiro
  7. putting the atoms together
    ‘No Aliens, No Spaceships, No Invasion of Earth’An oral history of Contact, the sci-fi movie that defied Hollywood norms and made it big anyway.
    By Rachel Handler
  8. book review
    Ottessa Moshfegh Is Praying for UsThe author has been hailed as a high priestess of filth. Really, she wants to purify her readers.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  9. profile
    Hot Joel SummerJoel Kim Booster’s deliciously bawdy debut film, Fire Island, maps Pride and Prejudice’s class tensions onto the vacation hideaway for gay men.
    By E. Alex Jung
  10. community theater
    ‘We Should Hate It, But It Works’An oral history of the inexplicably star-studded, hallucinogenic ending of Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.
    By Rachel Handler
  11. feature
    The Undoing of Joss WhedonThe Buffy creator, once an icon of Hollywood feminism, is now an outcast accused of misogyny. How did he get here?
    By Lila Shapiro
  12. close reads
    Hanya’s BoysThe novelist tends to torture her gay male characters — but only so she can swoop in to save them.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  13. in conversation
    Peter Bogdanovich on His Masterpieces, Womanizing, and Deaths He Didn’t MournA candid conversation with the late director who’s often held up as a cautionary tale of Hollywood arrogance.
    By Andrew Goldman
  14. profile
    Simon Rex Doesn’t Want to Be That Guy AnymoreThe former MTV VJ partied his way through the early aughts, lost his career for a decade, and now, improbably, is being lauded by the Hollywood elite.
    By Nate Jones
  15. fall preview 2021
    The Roys Summer in ItalyOn location with the cast of Succession, the most interestingly terrible billionaires on TV.
    By Hunter Harris
  16. first person
    Rachel Lindsay Has No Roses Left to BurnI thought I could change The Bachelor franchise from within. Until I realized I was their token.
    By Rachel Lindsay
  17. celebrity
    The End of Kimye’s Wild RideShe thought he was an artistic genius. He wanted to “dip her ass in gold.” And now it’s over.
    By Allison P. Davis
  18. the industry
    Scott Rudin, As Told by His AssistantsA portrait of a toxic workplace.
  19. profile
    Confessions of a 32-Year-Old Drama QueenNo one is keeping up with Trisha Paytas, YouTube’s most frighteningly entertaining star.
    By Rebecca Jennings
  20. the art of ending things
    The 101 Greatest Endings in Movies HistoryGood finales offer catharsis. The best deny us closure altogether.
    By Alison Willmore, Angelica Jade Bastién, and Bilge Ebiri
  21. movies
    Chloé Zhao’s AmericaThe creator of quiet indie dramas is now the most-sought-after director in Hollywood.
    By Alison Willmore
  22. books
    The Implosion of American DirtHow one of publishing’s most hyped books became its biggest horror story — and still ended up a best seller.
    By Lila Shapiro
  23. nancy meyers week
    A Chaotic Taxonomy of the Nancy Meyers Cinematic UniverseOver four-plus decades, the filmmaker has created a very specific visual language. Here is the key.
    By Rachel Handler
  24. in conversation
    Francis Ford Coppola Is Still Going for BrokeHis recut of The Godfather: Part III is one of his most personal projects yet, but it’s far from his last.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  25. the quarries
    The First (And Dear God, It Better Be the Last) QuarriesIn which we award the most original, absurd, scrappy, and ingenious works that shaped our year in quarantine.
    By Vulture Editors
  26. vulture lists
    The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation HistoryFrom Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, retracing 128 years of an art form that continues to draw us all in.
    Edited by Eric Vilas-Boas and John Maher
  27. where it started at
    The 100 Songs That Define New York Rap, RankedIt’s not a sound, it’s an attitude.
    By William E. Ketchum III, Craig Jenkins, and Dee Lockett
  28. fall preview
    You Don’t Know HerThirty years into an epic career, Mariah Carey is still trying to explain herself.
    By Allison P. Davis
  29. in conversation
    Thandie Newton Is Finally Ready to Speak Her MindAfter decades onscreen, nothing surprises the Westworld actress, though what she’s ready to share will surprise you.
    By E. Alex Jung
  30. profile
    Michaela the DestroyerHow a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the year’s most sublimely unsettling show.
    By E. Alex Jung
  31. profiles
    Padma Lakshmi, Scars and AllThe Top Chef host gives a very personal food tour of New York City.
    By E. Alex Jung
  32. first person
    Our Brother KaizenHe would be called a murderer and a domestic terrorist. But to us, he was family. Our struggles with systemic racism growing up were the same.
    By The Lucas Bros
  33. show guides
    Mad Men Is a Show That’s Built to LastYour complete guide to watching (or rewatching) the Matthew Weiner series.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  34. dance the sh*t out of it
    An Oral History of Center StageHow 24 pairs of leather pants, a tearaway tutu, and red pointe shoes made for a generation’s greatest dance movie.
    By Chloe Angyal
  35. in conversation
    Hayley Williams on What Went Wrong With Paramore and Her New Solo Life“If we didn’t have all that stupid fucking drama for all those years, would people even know who we are anymore?”
    By Eve Barlow
  36. first person
    I Don’t Know How to Tell This StoryCecily Strong on grieving a loved one while quarantined.
    By Cecily Strong
  37. a long talk
    Allow Fiona Apple to Reintroduce Herself“Nowadays, I try to remember who I was before all this started.”
    By Rachel Handler
  38. socially distanced tv
    If I Wrote a Coronavirus EpisodeTina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.
    By Maria Elena Fernandez
  39. anonymous in hollywood
    I Was a Hollywood Assistant and I Got Yelled at on the ToiletAnd also everywhere else.
    As told to Anne Victoria Clark
  40. profile
    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.
    By Lila Shapiro
  41. vulture lists
    The 100 Greatest Emo Songs of All TimeA sweeping look at rock’s most misunderstood genre.
    By Ian Cohen
  42. what were the 2010s?
    We Recapped the Whole DecadeA three-part attempt to figure out what made the ’10s the ’10s.
    By Nate Jones
  43. 25 days of cats
    An Oral History of Cats, As Told by Its Original Cats“It became this joke. But it was the most spectacular thing of its time.”
    By Molly Langmuir
  44. what were the 2010s?
    Every Movie of the 2010s, RankedOur critics pored over 5,279 of the decade’s films. Here’s the best, worst, and mehst.
  45. reality tv
    Jersey Shore: An Oral History“It was like zebras in the Serengeti. We wanted to see this in action. Where does that happen? The Jersey Shore.”
    By Molly Fitzpatrick
  46. reunions
    Community Reunited: ‘I Think I’m on the Greatest Television Show Ever Made’The cast and creators reflect on living through the end of must-see TV.
    By Jesse David Fox
  47. the politics of 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.
    By Lila Shapiro
  48. profile
    Bong Joon-ho’s Dystopia Is Already HereThe Korean director’s ferocious new film, Parasite, is a parable of our money-hungry world. It’s also the most fun you’ll have in theaters this fall.
    By E. Alex Jung
  49. a long talk
    Fiona Apple Is Still Calling B.S.These days, the singer spends most of her time at home, working on a new album. But that doesn’t mean she’s not paying attention.
    By Rachel Handler
  50. fall preview 2019
    The Hustle Behind HustlersHow do you get a film about rich white men getting scammed made in an industry run by rich white men? First step: Get J.Lo to sign on.
    By Rachel Handler
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