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Publications

Vulture

Crime

Last Resort

A broke music promoter and his detoxing son hatch a plan to solve all their problems. With Nas. On New Year’s Eve. In Angola.

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Joshuah Bearman, Rich Schapiro Vulture Aug 2021 40min Permalink

Movies & TV

Mike White Accepts the Criticism

A spoiler-filled interview with the creator of The White Lotus.

Kathryn VanArendonk Vulture Aug 2021 20min Permalink

Arts

Infinite Self

Anthony Veasna So died unexpectedly last winter, before his debut book was released. Everyone remembers him differently.

E. Alex Jung Vulture Aug 2021 30min Permalink

Movies & TV

Rachel Lindsay Has No Roses Left to Burn

I thought I could change The Bachelor franchise from within. Until I realized I was their token.

Rachel Lindsay Vulture Jun 2021 30min Permalink

Business Movies & TV

Scott Rudin, As Told by His Assistants

A portrait of a toxic workplace.

Anne Victoria Clark, Jackson McHenry, Lila Shapiro, Gazelle Emami, Helen Shaw, Tara Abell, Nate Jones, E. Alex Jung, Megh Wright Vulture Apr 2021 45min Permalink

Movies & TV

The King of the Geezer Teasers

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

Joshua Hunt Vulture Mar 2021 25min Permalink

Movies & TV

The King of the Geezer Teasers

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

Joshua Hunt Vulture Apr 2021 30min Permalink

Movies & TV

Chloé Zhao’s America

A profile of the director.

Alison Willmore Vulture Feb 2021 20min Permalink

Food Media

Sohla El-Waylly Goes Solo

After leaving Bon Appétit, the chef now has her own show—where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations.

E. Alex Jung Vulture Oct 2020 10min Permalink

Crime Health

Our Brother Kaizen

George Floyd’s murder is a brutal reminder that the entire legal edifice—from slavery to mass incarceration—was designed to break down black people meticulously. This isn’t accidental.

The Lucas Brothers Vulture Jun 2020 20min Permalink

Movies & TV

If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode

Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.

Maria Elena Fernandez Vulture Apr 2020 10min Permalink

Best Article Business

Garbage Language

Why do corporations speak the way they do?

Molly Young Vulture Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Arts

This Is Not a Love Story

When a young author started her novel years ago, she saw it as a romance. She sees it differently now.

Lila Shapiro Vulture Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Music

Fiona Apple Is Still Calling Bullshit

The singer spends most of her time at home, working on a new album. That doesn’t mean she’s not paying attention.

Rachel Handler Vulture Sep 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

‘I Really Thought He Was Going to Kill Me and Bury My Body’

A romance author accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet?

Lila Shapiro Vulture Jun 2019 35min Permalink

Movies & TV

Walking Time Bomb

The director Stacy Title is paralyzed and cannot speak. But she is determined to make one final movie.

Amy Wallace Vulture May 2019 25min Permalink

In Conversation: Anjelica Huston

On growing up in Hollywood, the cost of beating Oprah at the Oscars, and why Jack Nicholson doesn’t act anymore.

Andrew Goldman Vulture May 2019 35min Permalink

Best Article

'The Unthinkable Has Happened'

You learn to believe in your child’s existence. What happens when she’s killed by a piece of your daily environment?

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Excerpted from Once More We Saw Stars

Jayson Greene Vulture Apr 2019 25min Permalink

Media Movies & TV

Would You Trust This Man?

A profile of reality-TV star Jax Taylor.

Joseph Bien-Kahn Vulture Mar 2019 20min Permalink

Music

The Boys in the Band

On the 13-member rap collective Brockhampton.

Craig Jenkins Vulture Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Arts

How Does the Art World Live With Itself?

I used to believe the art world was at war with itself, that money was fighting art and vice versa. But I’ve been living in my own ambivalence about things for a decade now, or more, and I’m starting to think it’s not a war but a new equilibrium state, defined by that ambivalence.

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Jerry Saltz on the Longform Podcast

Jerry Saltz Vulture Oct 2018 Permalink

Music

Not The Man They Think He Is

The career of Elton John.

Bill Wyman Vulture Oct 2018 Permalink

How the West Was Digitized

The making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2.

Harold Goldberg Vulture Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Music

The Perfectionist

A profile of rapper Mac Miller published on September 6, the day before he died.

Craig Jenkins Vulture Sep 2018 15min Permalink

Movies & TV

How BoJack Horseman Got Made

An oral history.

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Excerpted from BoJack Horseman: The Art Before the Horse.

Chris McDonnell Vulture Sep 2018 25min Permalink

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